Design and Implementation of CALO Query Manager.pptVIP

Design and Implementation of CALO Query Manager Jose Luis Ambite Vinay K. Chaudhri Richard Fikes Jessica Jenkins Outline Problem Technology Application Problem Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes (CALO) Learn from experience Be told what to do Explain what it is doing Reflect on experience Respond robustly to surprises Situated in an office environment CALO Functions Knowledge Sources Data Sources Email Calendar Contacts Projects WWW Sensor output Reasoners Taxonomic Reasoning Constraint reasoning for scheduling meetings Truth maintenance over learned knowledge Max-Sat based reasoning Example Questions Which meetings will have a conflict if the current meeting runs overtime by one hour? Access calendar and compute time addition Who was present in the meeting in conference room EJ228 at 10:00AM this morning? Conclude presence from the data Access sensor data from the meetings List all the people who are mentioned in an article in which Joe is also mentioned? Access articles to retrieve co-authors, and then retrieve their articles of the co-authors The query involves a join over the instances of the class articles Outline Problem Technology Application Technology Hybrid Reasoning Use more than one reasoning method to answer a question Emphasis on first order reasoning Information Integration Use more than one information source in answering a query Emphasis on data retrieval Hybrid Reasoning Combine one or more reasoning methods in answering a question Procedural attachment [Myers, AIJ 94] Theory resolution [Stickel, JAR, 85] Constraint resolution [Burckert, LNAI, 91] Information Integration Use more than one information source in answering a query Mediation [Wiederhold, 1992 ] Data Warehousing [Widom, 1995] Outline Technology Problem Application Application Innovative Claims How to best combine the data and reasoning sources? No longer limited to conjunctive queries (first-order) Some sources have limited query capability How should query plan