S.C. Shapiro An Intelligent Interface to a GIS Stuart C. Shapiro Professor, CSE Director, SNePS Research Group Member, Center for Cognitive Science Faculty Member, Interdisciplinary MS in Computational Linguistics Faculty Participant, IGERT

S.C. Shapiro Introduction

S.C. Shapiro Long-Term Goal Theory and Implementation of Natural-Language-Competent Computerized Cognitive Agent/Robot and Supporting Research in Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Science Computational Linguistics.

S.C. Shapiro Research Areas Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Cognitive Robotics Natural-Language Understanding Natural-Language Generation.

S.C. Shapiro Goal A computational cognitive agent that can: –Understand and communicate in English; –Discuss specific, generic, and “rule-like” information; –Reason; –Discuss acts and plans; –Sense; –Act; –Maintain a model of itself; –Remember and report what it has sensed and done.

S.C. Shapiro Cassie A computational cognitive agent –Embodied in hardware –or Software-Simulated –Based on SNePS and GLAIR.

S.C. Shapiro SNePS Knowledge Representation and Reasoning –Propositions as Terms SNIP: SNePS Inference Package –Specialized connectives and quantifiers SNeBR: SNePS Belief Revision SNeRE: SNePS Rational Engine Interface Languages –SNePSUL: Lisp-Like –SNePSLOG: Logic-Like –GATN for Fragments of English.

S.C. Shapiro GLAIR Architecture Knowledge Level Perceptuo-Motor Level Sensory-Actuator Level NL Vision Sonar MotionProprioception Grounded Layered Architecture with Integrated Reasoning SNePS

S.C. Shapiro Interaction with Cassie English (Statement, Question, Command) (Current) Set of Beliefs [SNePS] (Updated) Set of Beliefs [SNePS] Actions [SNeRE] (New Belief) [SNePS] English sentence expressing new belief answering question reporting actions Answer [SNIP] GATN Parser GATN Generator Reasoning Clarification Dialogue Looking in World Reasoning

S.C. Shapiro Example Cassies & Worlds

S.C. Shapiro BlocksWorld

S.C. Shapiro FEVAHR

S.C. Shapiro FEVAHRWorld Simulation

S.C. Shapiro UXO Remediation Cassie Corner flag NonUXO object Corner flag UXO Battery meter Corner flag Drop-off zone Field Safe zone Recharging Station

S.C. Shapiro Crystal Space Environment

S.C. Shapiro Princess from “The Trial, The Trail” A VR drama by Josephine Anstey

S.C. Shapiro Vacuum Cleaner Cassie Using Byron Weber Becker’s Java Karel

S.C. Shapiro Magellan Pro TM Mobile Robot from iRobot

S.C. Shapiro A GIS Interface Agent Based on Jun Xu, 2003, Implement an Intelligent ArcView User Interface Using SNePS, Proceeding of the 23rd Annual ESRI User Conference, San Diego, California, July 7-11, Stuart C. Shapiro, Hans Chalupsky, Hsueh-Cheng Chou, and David M. Mark. Intelligent user interfaces: Connecting ARC/INFO and SNACTor, a semantic network based system for planning actions. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual ESRI User Conference, V. 3, pages Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, California, 1992.

S.C. Shapiro View1 is a view. Statetheme is a theme. Open view1. Add statetheme to view1.

S.C. Shapiro Add laketheme to view2. Add rivertheme to view2.

S.C. Shapiro Add roadtheme to view1.

S.C. Shapiro Find New York in statetheme. Zoom in statetheme.

S.C. Shapiro Zoom out statetheme. Add citytheme to view1.

S.C. Shapiro Find San Diego in citytheme. Zoom in citytheme. Show table of citytheme.

S.C. Shapiro For More Information Shapiro: SNePS Research Group: –Meets Fridays 9-11, 242 Bell Hall –Join us!