Cognitive Computing A research blog by Ashwin Ram, PhD

In addition to learning new knowledge, a system must be able to learn when the knowledge is likely to be applicable. An index is a piece of information which, when identified in a given situation, triggers the relevant piece of knowledge (or schema) in the system’s memory. We discuss the issue of how indices may be learned automatically in the context of a story understanding task, and present a program that can learn new indices for existing explanatory schemas. We discuss two methods using which the system can identify the relevant schema even if the input does not directly match an existing index, and learn a new index to allow it to retrieve this schema more efficiently in the future.

Read the paper:

Learning Indices for Schema Selection

by Sam Bhatta, Ashwin Ram

www.cc.gatech.edu/faculty/ashwin/papers/er-91-01.pdf