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| Seminar Schedule (Seminar Organizer: Prof. Ziv Bar-Joseph) | |
Machine Learning Lunchtime Chats
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Spring 2005 Seminar
Date: April 7, 2005 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location: 4623 Wean Hall Speaker: Michael Witbrock Vice President for Research at Cycorp Title: Teaching Cyc to Fish Abstract: For the past twenty years, human beings have been painstakingly adding formally represented knowledge to Cyc. This knowledge base has been usefully applied to several real-world and research problems, and is intended to approach the eventual goal of a fully functioning Artificial Intelligence. One of the original premises of the Cyc project was that one could only acquire knowledge from a base of knowledge; you can't learn anything unless you know something. We're now in a position to apply that premise. In this talk, I'll describe the Cyc system, and how we are applying its current knowledge base, NL capability, and inference power to the problem of automating knowledge acquisition. The talk will also how you can get your hands on this stuff, in the form of ResearchCyc; a version of the full Cyc system that is available for research use. Speaker Bio: Dr. Michael Witbrock (Cycorp), has a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and currently is Vice President for Research at Cycorp. Before joining Cycorp, in 2001, to direct its knowledge formation and dialogue processing efforts he had been Principal Scientist at Terra Lycos, working on integrating statistical and knowledge based approaches to understanding web user behavior, a research scientist at Just Systems Pittsburgh Research Center, working on statistical summarization, and a systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon on the Informedia spoken document information retrieval project. He also performed dissertation work in the area of speaker modeling. He is author of numerous publications in areas ranging across neural networks, parallel computer architecture, multimedia information retrieval, web browser design, genetic design, computational linguistics and speech recognition. Dr. Witbrock is visiting to set the stage for CMU grad students to think about Cycorp as a place to do internships over summers or as a place for long term employment after graduation, and also to seek collaborations with CMU researchers, possibly involving their use of ResearchCyc in their work. For appointments: Contact Sharon Cavlovich - sharonw@cs.cmu.edu