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A Case Study in Engineering a Knowledge Base for a Personal Assistant

by Vinay K. Chaudhri, Adam Cheyer, Richard Guili, Bill Jarrold, Karen L. Myers, John Niekrasz

in Semantic Desktop and Social Semantic Collaboration Workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference, 6 November 2006, Athens, GA, USA

Abstract

We present a case study in engineering a knowledge base to meet the requirements of an intelligent personal assistant. The assistant is designed to function as part of a semantic desktop application, with the goal of helping a user manage and organize his information as well as supporting the user in performing tasks. We describe the knowledge base development process, the knowledge engineering challenges we faced in the process and our solutions to them, and important lessons learned during the process.

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Associated Projects

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
	Cheyer, Adam	Former Program Director
	Jarrold, William	Alumnus
	Myers, Karen	Program Director & Principal Scientist