Kurzfassung

Cognitive computing addresses problems characterized by ambiguity and uncertainty, meaning that it is used to handle problems humans are confronted with in everyday life. When developing a cognitive computing system which is supposed to act human-like one cannot rely on automated theorem proving techniques alone, since humans performing commonsense reasoning do not obey the rules of classical logics. This causes humans to be susceptible to logical fallacies, but on the other hand to draw...Cognitive computing addresses problems characterized by ambiguity and uncertainty, meaning that it is used to handle problems humans are confronted with in everyday life. When developing a cognitive computing system which is supposed to act human-like one cannot rely on automated theorem proving techniques alone, since humans performing commonsense reasoning do not obey the rules of classical logics. This causes humans to be susceptible to logical fallacies, but on the other hand to draw useful conclusions automated reasoning systems are incapable of. Humans naturally reason in the presence of incomplete and inconsistent knowledge, are able to reason in the presence of norms as well as con- flicting norms and are able to quickly reconsider their conclusions when being confronted with additional information. The versatility of human reasoning illustrates that any attempt to model the way humans perform commonsense reasoning has to use a combination of many different techniques.
This project aims at the construction of a cognitive computing system by modeling aspects of human reasoning like emotions and human interactions. For this, we will extend classical logical reasoning with non-monotonic reasoning like defeasible logic and normative reasoning and combine it with machine learning techniques. This will not only be carried out on a theoretical level. Different components im- portant to model the commonsense reasoning process will be developed and combined to a cognitive computing system which will be tested using benchmarks from commonsense reasoning.» weiterlesen» einklappen