Presentations

Lexical Analysis of Tag Collections for the Improvement of Tag Auto-Generation, presented at TagCamp, Palo Alto, CA, October 30, 2005
- Abstract: This presentation explores the results of the lexical analysis of various tag collections as well as normal text. What can we learn from human-generated metadata to help make automatically-generated metadata set more usable, correct, efficient, and most importantly, humane?

AI Meets Web 2.0: Building The Web Of Tomorrow Today, presented at IAAI-05, Pittsburgh, PA, July 10-13, 2005
- Abstract: Imagine an Internet-scale Knowledge System where people and intelligent agents can collaborate on solving complex problems in business, engineering, science, medicine, and other endeavors. Its resources include semantically tagged Web sites, wikis, and blogs, as well as social networks, vertical Search engines and a vast array of Web services from business processes to AI planners and domain models. Research prototypes of decentralized knowledge systems have been demonstrated for years, but now, thanks to the Web and Moore’s Law, they appear ready for prime time. Architectural concepts for incrementally growing an Internet-scale knowledge system are introduced, with descriptions of early commercial deployments in manufacturing and healthcare.