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.

The following are in reverse chronological order of publication.

• 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 to appear in 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]