Common Sense Via Instant Messaging Sanjay Rao & Sonia Garg MAS.964 Henry Lieberman, Hugo Liu, Push Singh 12/12/02

Agenda Design Goals Application Architecture Scenarios (Demo) Evaluation Extensions Q/A

Design Goals User-Friendly –Increase enjoyment of Open Mind interaction Minimize Overhead –Do not require new applications or training Convenient Application –Improve availability of Open Mind interface Large Potential User Base –AOL/IM Networks over 100 Million People

Design Architecture AOL IM –Perl AIM Interface ALICE Open Mind Commands

Open Mind Interface States and Transitions (FSM) –Manages Conversation State Retrieval of Information –Key word search Conversation use Common Sense Contribution of Information –Enter Knowledge through Templates –Write Results to XML

Commands Delineated by /commandName to distinguish from dialog Commands Supported –/search keyword –/stock ticker –/calc Similar to Remote Procedure Calls

Demo

Evaluation –AOL IM is pretty popular –Allows bi-directional interaction –Gives user choice of services –Quick communication, Seems like Real Time

Extensions Model for supervised learning Verb Queries to OpenMind Better Interaction More Specific Dialog

Q/A OpenMindBot (try it out!) Thanks.