Aaron Spaulding

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

Radar Radar is a project focused on developing machine learning technology that can be used to help people perform better in information-overload situations.

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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• Spaulding, A. and Blythe, J. and Haines, W. and Gervasio, M. From Geek to Sleek: Integrating Task Learning Tools to Support End Users in Real-World Applications, in 2009 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2009.  [PDF, Details]

• Vinay K. Chaudhri and Peter E. Clark and Sunil Mishra and John Pacheco and Aaron Spaulding and Jing Tien. AURA: Capturing Knowledge and Answering Questions on Science Textbooks, Technical Report . SRI International, 2009.  [PDF, Details]

• Vinay K. Chaudhri, Mark Greaves, Daniel Hansch, Anthony Jameson, Frederik Pfisterer. Using a Semantic Wiki as a Knowledge Source for Question Answering. AAAI Spring Symposium, 2008.  [PDF, Details]

• Chaudhri, V., John, B.E., Mishra, S., Pacheco, J., Porter, B., Spaulding, A. Enabling Experts to Build Knowledge Bases from Science Textbooks, in The Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP), October 2007.  [PDF, Details]

• Spaulding, A. and Chaudhri, V. K. and John, B. E. and Prevas, G. and Mishra, S. and Pacheco, J. Using Equations in Concept Maps to Graphically Build Knowledge Bases. 2007.  [PDF, Details]