John Pacheco*

Current Projects

Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System The goal of this project is to build a generic knowledge acquisition capability for Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Using the system, the scientists will be able to formulate their knowledge in the three science domains, and the high school students will be able to pose Advanced-Placement style questions and get user appropriate explanations.

Past Projects

A System for Representing Textbook Knowledge The goal of the project is to demonstrate the current state-of-the-art in knowledge representation by attempting to answer the questions in an advance placement test in chemistry.

Software

AURA: Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System The AURA system enables graduate students in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology to author knowledge from a science textbook, and support high school students to formulate questions against that knowledge to obtain answers.

Publications

The following are in reverse chronological order of publication.
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• Keseler, I.M., Collado-Vides, J., Santos-Zavaleta, A., Peralta-Gil, M., Gama-Castro, S., Muniz-Rascado, L., Bonavides-Martinez, C., Paley, S., Krummenacker, M., Altman, T., Kaipa, P., Spaulding, A., Pacheco, J., Latendresse, M., Fulcher, C., Sarker, M., Shearer, A.G., Mackie, A., Paulsen, I., Gunsalus, R.P., and Karp, P.D. EcoCyc: a comprehensive database of Escherichia coli biology. Nucleic Adics Research, vol. 39, pp. D583-90, 2011.  [PDF, Details]

• Aaron Spaulding and Adam Overholtzer and John Pacheco and Jing Tien and Vinay K. Chaudhri and Dave Gunning and Peter Clark. Inquire for iPad: Bringing Question-Answering AI into the Classroom. International Conference on AI in Education (AIED), 2011.  [PDF, Details]

• Chaudhri, V. and Dinesh, N. and Pacheco, J. and Ng, G. and Clark, P. and Goldenkranz, A. and Seyed, P. and Sharma N. Preliminary Steps towards a Knowledge Factory Process , in The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 2011.  [PDF, Details]

• Seyed, Patrice, and Pacheco, John and Goldenkranz, Andrew and Chaudhri, Vinay. Modeling Issues Encountered from Building a Taxonomy from a Biology Textbook, in International Conference on Bio-Medical Ontology, 2011.  [PDF, Details]

• David Gunning, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Peter Clark, Ken Barker, Shaw-Yi Chaw, Mark Greaves, Benjamin Grosof, Alice Leung, David McDonald, Sunil Mishra, John Pacheco, Bruce Porter, Aaron Spaulding, Dan Tecuci, and Jing Tien. Project Halo Update — Progress Toward Digital Aristotle. AI Magazine, Fall 2010.  [PDF, Details]