The Learner Project at ISI


Acquiring Common Knowledge from Web Volunteers

Description

The Learner system is a framework for social knowledge collection. While it was deployed, Learner collected more than 600,000 facts from volunteer contributors about common knowledge.

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Status

Research on Learner proceeded until 2005.

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Research

The research conducted in Leaner includes: 1) analysis on quality of knowledge, 2) user interface design to collect structured knowledge, 3) techniques to maximize the breadth of contributions as well as the automated reasoning they enable, and 4) incentivizing contributors.

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Publications

"Improving the Design of Intelligent Acquisition Interfaces for Collecting World Knowledge from Web Contributors", Timothy Chklovski, Yolanda Gil. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2005). October 2-5, 2005, Banff, Canada

"Collecting Paraphrase Corpora from Volunteer Contributors", Timothy Chklovski. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2005). October 2-5, 2005, Banff, Canada

"An Analysis of Knowledge Collected from Volunteer Contributors", Timothy Chklovski, Yolanda Gil. In Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Demo

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People

Group Members:

Yolanda Gil

Alumni and Former Members:

Timothy Chklovski

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Funding

DARPA's Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL)