Clark, Peter
<p>Mar 25, 2009 3:06 PM
 
Brit...  I heard him lecture at AAAI-SSS-09   extremely clear...  see his favorite slide collections below... excellent...
these are his slide presentations on work by other people!!!!  EXCLT.  nice guy... wonderful presenter.
 
Naive Physics Perplex
 
Common sense is a wild thing, savage, and beyond rules.   G K CHESTERTON 1906.
 
Google USE does topic analysis.
 
Peter's main point...   treat  reading as MODEL BUILDING or Model Extraction.
 
Syntax -->  Discourse --->  Structure
 
Textual Entailment:  does a segment of text imply a partic. hypothesis;  T=> H ?    text is equiv to H;
unification of the 2 statements.
 
He uses  two  knowledge sources:  1)  Wordnet   and   DIRT  (see node)
 
machine reading is the process of model formation.
 
Can now do  rapid MAX SAT  algorithm;   SAT  SOLVER can do 100k logical statements in a few seconds.
 
 
 
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