K S A
Knowledge Systems Area

Group members

• Danny Bobrow (manager)
• Bob Cheslow
• Cleo Condoravdi
• Valeria de Paiva
• Jack Whalen

Research Interests

• Knowledge representation and ontologies
• Natural language understanding
• Logical foundations for commonsense reasoning
• Socio-technical systems

Projects

• Two-way bridge between language and logic (within the Advanced Question and Answering for Intelligence Aquaint program)
• Community Knowledge Sharing (CKS)
• A3I project (within the Novel Intelligence from Massive Data NIMD program)
• Reasoning about Document Collections (RDC)

Collaborators

• PARC's Natural Language Theory and Technology (NLTT) group
• The CYC commonsense knowledge base project
• PARC's Knowledge, Interaction and Practice Area (KIPA)
• Former Members:
  • Reinhard Stolle
  • John Everett
• Interns:
  • Anubha Kothari (summer 2004)
  • Elizabeth Coppock (2003-2004)