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Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources in the CALO Query Manager

by Ambite, Jose-Luis and Chaudhri, Vinay K. and Fikes, Richard and Jenkins, Jessica and Mishra, Sunil and Muslea, Maria and Uribe, Tomas and Yang, Guizhen

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Abstract

We report on our experience in developing a query answering system that integrates multiple knowledge sources. The system is based on a novel architecture for combining knowledge sources in which the sources can produce new subgoals as well as ground facts in the search for answers to existing subgoals. The system uses a query planner that takes into account different query processing capabilities of individual sources and augments them gracefully. A reusable ontology provides a mediated schema that serves as the basis for integration. We have evaluated the system on a suite of test queries in a realistic application to verify the practicality of our approach.

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Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes As part of DARPA’s Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) program, SRI and team members are working on developing a next-generation "Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes" (CALO).

AIC Personnel

	Name	Title	E-mail
	Chaudhri, Vinay K	Program Director
	Mishra, Sunil	Computer Scientist
	Uribe, Tomas E	Computer Scientist
	Yang, Guizhen	Alumnus