Course Description

This course will explore the state of the art in common sense knowledge, and class projects will design and build interfaces that can exploit this knowledge to make more usable and helpful interfaces.

This year’s theme will be about how common sense knowledge differs in different languages and cultures, and how …

This course will explore the state of the art in common sense knowledge, and class projects will design and build interfaces that can exploit this knowledge to make more usable and helpful interfaces.

This year’s theme will be about how common sense knowledge differs in different languages and cultures, and how machine understanding of this knowledge can help increase communication between people, and between people and machines.

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Causal-diversity matrix, showing number of causes and scale of effect.
Figure showing a causal-diversity matrix. (Image courtesy of Prof. Henry Lieberman.)
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