Common Sense Via Instant Messaging Sanjay Rao Sonia

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 /command. Name to distinguish from dialog • Commands Supported – /search keyword – /stock ticker – /calc 3+4+5 • 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 Open. Mind • Better Interaction More Specific Dialog

Q/A • Open. Mind. Bot (try it out!) • sanjay@mit. edu; garg@mit. edu • Thanks.