Project Halo

The project is managed by Mark Greaves.

Project Halo has led to a number of spinoff technologies, including the wiki software bundle SMW+, the Semantic Inferencing on Large Knowledge (SILK) project and the Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System (AURA).

An Introduction to Project Halo - videolectures.net (2010)



[PDF] Project Halo Update-Progress Toward Digital Aristotle
[PDF] from utexas.eduD Gunning, VK Chaudhri, P Clark... - AI Magazine to appear ..., 2010 - cs.utexas.edu
... Project Halo is a long-range research effort sponsored by Vulcan Inc., pursuing the vision of the
"Digital Aristotle"-an application containing large volumes of scientific knowledge and capable
of applying sophisticated problem-solving methods to answer novel questions. ... 
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[PDF] Recent Advances in the SILK Knowledge Representation and Its Usage
[PDF] from semwebcentral.orgB Grosof - Rule-based Modeling and Computing on the ..., 2011 - silk.semwebcentral.org
... For More Info: http://silk.semwebcentral.org http://projecthalo.com (c) Copyright Benjamin Grosof
and Vulcan Inc., 2011. All rights reserved. Recent Advances in the SILK Knowledge
Representation and its Usage Page 2. Outline • Intro: Vulcan's Project Halo, HaloBook application ... 
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[PDF] A SILK Graphical UI for Defeasible Reasoning, with a Biology Causal Process Example?
[PDF] from psu.eduB Grosof, M Burstein, M Dean, C Andersen... - Proc. 4th Intl. Web Rule ..., 2010 - Citeseer
... The system includes capabilities for reasoning, knowledge interchange, and user interface (UI).
Part of Project Halo 5 , sponsored by Vulcan Inc., the ... This work is part of the SILK project sponsored
by Vulcan Inc. 4 http://silk.semwebcentral.org 5 http://projecthalo.com Page 2. ... 
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[PDF] The SILK System: Scalable Higher-Order Defeasible Rules
[PDF] from mit.eduB Grosof, M Dean... - 3rd International Rule Challenge, at RuleML ..., 2009 - mit.edu
... SILK is part of Vulcan's Project Halo6. SILK radically extends the KR power of W3C OWL 2 RL,
SPARQL, and RIF - and of SQL and production rules. It includes: ... 4 http://silk.semwebcentral.
org 5 http://wiki.ontoprise.de 6 http://projecthalo.com Page 2. - Actions and events, cf. ... 
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A Scalable Problem-Solver for Large Knowledge-Bases
SY Chaw, K Barker, B Porter... - Tools with Artificial ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Open- domain textual question answering techniques. Nat. Lang. Eng., 9(3):231-267, 2003.
[11] JF Sowa. Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine.
Addison-Wesley, 1984. [12] Vulcan Inc. Project Halo, 2003. http://projecthalo.com. 468 
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[PDF] Preliminary steps towards a knowledge factory process
[PDF] from sri.comV Chaudhri, N Dinesh, J Pacheco, G Ng... - the Proceedings of the ..., 2011 - ai.sri.com
... and a hexose?" ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by Vulcan Inc. 4.
REFERENCES [1] Gunning D. et. al., Project Halo Update - Progress Toward Digital
Aristotle, AI Magazine, Fall 2010, 33-58. [2] Jane B. Reece ... 
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[PDF] Silk-Generating RDF Links while publishing or consuming Linked Data
[PDF] from wapka.mobiA Jentzsch, R Isele... - Poster at the International ..., 2010 - fundunia.wapka.mobi
... 5 Acknowledgments This work was supported in part by Vulcan Inc. as part of its Project
Halo (www.projecthalo.com) and by the EU FP7 project LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out
of Interlinked Data (Grant No. 257943, http://lod2.eu/). References ... 
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Project halo: Towards a digital aristotle
[PDF] from aaaipress.orgNS Friedland, PG Allen, G Matthews, M Witbrock... - AI magazine, 2004 - aaai.org
Page 1. ¦ Project Halo is a multistaged effort, sponsored by Vulcan Inc, aimed at creating Digital
Aristo- tle, an application that will encompass much of the world's scientific knowledge and be
capable of applying sophisticated problem solving to answer novel questions. ... 
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[PDF] WHAT IS HARD ABOUT REPRESENTING BIOLOGY TEXTBOOK KNOWLEDGE?
[PDF] from sri.comVK Chaudhri, A Goldenkranz, R Fikes... - Proceedings of the sixth ..., 2011 - ai.sri.com
... 3. DIFFICULT ONTOLOGY PROBLEMS In Project Halo, we adopted an upper ontology called
the Component Library (CLIB) that had the claim of providing the necessary vocabulary for
representing a Biology text ... 4. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by Vulcan Inc. ... 
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[PDF] Representing the Component Library into Ontology Design Patterns
[PDF] from sri.comA Gangemi... - Proc. of the Workshop on Ontology Patterns ( ..., 2009 - ai.sri.com
... 3 Uses of the Component Library The Component Library has been used in several
projects, but most notably, in Vulcan's Project Halo (See http://www.projecthalo.com) ,
and DARPA's Project CALO (See http://caloproject.sri.com). ... 
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Using a Semantic Wiki as a Knowledge Source for Rich Modeling and Question Answering
[PDF] from sri.comVK Chaudhri, M Greaves, D Hansch... - AAAI Spring Symposium ..., 2008 - aaai.org
... Acknowledgment The research discussed in this paper is being funded by Vulcan Inc. in the
context of the multistage project Halo. References Brown, TL, HE LeMay, et al. (2003). Chemistry:
The Central Science. New Jersey, Prentice Hall. Campbell, NA and J. Reece (2001). ... 
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Keynote Abstracts
D Luckham - ... Computing Conference (EDOC), 2010 14th IEEE ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... At Vulcan, he conceived and leads a new large advanced research program in
the area of rule-based semantic technologies and AI, within Vulcan's overall Project
Halo. This includes: - creation of the game-changing SILK ... 
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[PDF] Colorado Technical University
[PDF] from nadtec.toS Graham - 2008 - nadtec.to
... [35] L. Timmerman, "Vulcan project aims to build 'Digital Aristotle'," in ... Winter 2004, 2004. [37] J.
Angele, E. Moench, H. Oppermann, S. Staab, and D. Wenke, "Ontology-Based Query and
Answering in Chemistry: OntoNova @ Project Halo," http://www.projecthalo.com, 2006. 
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[PDF] Silk: Higher level rules with defaults and semantic scalability
[PDF] from semwebcentral.orgBN Grosof - ... of the 3rd International Conference on Web ..., 2009 - silk.semwebcentral.org
... How You can be Involved Page 3. Vulcan's Project Halo Begins; 1st system is AURA • Vision
of Digital Aristotle ... Newest part of Vulcan's Project Halo which addresses the problems of scale
and brittleness in KBs which addresses the problems of scale and brittleness in KBs, ... 
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Applying problem solving methods for process knowledge acquisition, representation, and reasoning
JM Gómez-Pérez, M Erdmann... - Proceedings of the 4th ..., 2007 - dl.acm.org
... Outside of Project Halo we see a growing interest in model- ing processes. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work has been funded by Vulcan Inc. as part of Onto-
prise's DarkMatter project within the Halo Project (www.projecthalo.com). ... 
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[PDF] The SILK System: Scalable and Expressive Semantic Rules
[PDF] from stanford.eduB Grosof, M Dean... - 8th International Semantic Web ..., 2009 - kcap09.stanford.edu
... More information can be found on the SILK website at the URL above. 4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SILK's development is sponsored and led by Vulcan Inc., in its Project Halo's Advanced Research
effort (HalAR). The SILK team includes over 30 people from 15 organi- zations. ... 
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[PDF] Capturing a Taxonomy of Failures During Automatic Interpretation of Questions Posed in Natural Language
[PDF] from utexas.eduSY Chaw, JJ Fan, DG Tecuci... - Proceedings to The ..., 2007 - userweb.cs.utexas.edu
... [19] Teknowledge Corporation. Rapid Knowledge Formation project, 2002. http://reliant.
teknowledge.com/RKF. [20] Vulcan Inc. Project Halo, 2003. http://projecthalo.com. [21] P. Yeh,
B. Porter, and K. Barker. Using Transformations to Improve Semantic Matching. In KCAP, 2003. ... 
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Ontology-based query and answering in chemistry: Ontonova project HALO
[PDF] from projecthalo.comJ Angele, E Mönch, H Oppermann, S Staab... - The Semantic Web- ..., 2003 - Springer
... Abstract. The Project Halo has the long term objective of developing a Digital Aristotle, ie a
knowledge system that is able to answer questions in a particular domain and give explanations
for its answers. ... 1 http://www.projecthalo.com 2 http://www.vulcan.com 3 The Advance ... 
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[BOOK] Towards an Ontology-Independent Problem Solver
[PDF] from psu.eduSY Chaw, K Barker, B Porter... - 2007 - Citeseer
... Addison-Wesley. Teknowledge Corporation. 2002. Rapid Knowledge For- mation project.
http://reliant.teknowledge.com/RKF. Vulcan Inc. 2003. Project Halo. http://projecthalo.com. Yeh,
PZ; Porter, B.; and Barker, K. 2003. Using transfor- mations to improve semantic matching. ... 
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Capturing a taxonomy of failures during automatic interpretation of questions posed in natural language
PZ Yeh, SY Chaw, JJ Fan... - Proceedings of the 4th ..., 2007 - dl.acm.org
... [19] Teknowledge Corporation. Rapid Knowledge Formation project, 2002. http://reliant.
teknowledge.com/RKF. [20] Vulcan Inc. Project Halo, 2003. http://projecthalo.com. [21] P. Yeh,
B. Porter, and K. Barker. Using Transformations to Improve Semantic Matching. In KCAP, 2003. ... 
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Representing Biological Processes in Modular Action Language ALM
[PDF] from ttu.eduD Inclezan... - 2011 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2011 - aaai.org
... We describe a system that uses our formalization in answering related questions from a
biology textbook for the undergraduate level (Campbell and Reece 2001). This work is part
of our collaboration on Project Halo, a research effort by Vulcan Inc. ... 
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[PDF] A Categorization of KR&R Methods for Requirement Analysis of a Query Answering Knowledge Base
[PDF] from toronto.eduVK Chaudhri, B Bredeweg, R Fikes... - Proceedings of the ..., 2010 - cs.toronto.edu
... This work is part of a larger effort called Project Halo that is staged, long- range research by Vulcan
Inc. ... capable of answering novel questions and solving advanced problems in a broad range of
scientific disciplines and related human affairs (see http://www.projecthalo.com). ... 
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[PDF] SILK: Semantic rules take the next big step in power
[PDF] from mit.eduB Grosof - 2009 - mit.edu
... for individual organizations or people • Newest part of Vulcan's Project Halo which addresses
the problems of scale and brittleness in KBs which addresses the problems of scale and brittleness
in KBs, ... Vulcan's Project Halo Begins; 1st system is AURA • Vision of Digital Aristotle ... 
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Automatic interpretation of loosely encoded input
J Fan, K Barker... - Artificial Intelligence, 2009 - Elsevier
... Chemical-Reaction with (reactants (Water and Hydrogen))))) Support for this research is provided
by contracts from SRI International and Vulcan Inc ... This became apparent in the Pilot Phase of
Project Halo [66], in which a team of knowledge engineers built a knowledge base to ... 
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[PDF] Silk server-adding missing links while consuming linked data
[PDF] from wapka.mobiR Isele, A Jentzsch... - 1st International Workshop on ..., 2010 - fundunia.wapka.mobi
... 7 Acknowledgments This work was supported in part by Vulcan Inc. as part of its Project
Halo (www.projecthalo.com) and by the EU FP7 project LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out
of Interlinked Data (http://lod2.eu/, Ref. No. 257943). References ... 
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Tabling for transaction logic
P Fodor... - Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGPLAN ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... updating database * This work is part of the SILK (Semantic Inference on Large
Knowledge) effort within Project Halo, sponsored by Vulcan Inc. The authors were
also partially supported by the NSF grant 0964196. Permission ... 
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A framework and computer system for knowledge-level acquisition, representation, and reasoning with process knowledge
[PDF] from upm.esJM Gómez-Pérez, M Erdmann, M Greaves... - International Journal of ..., 2010 - Elsevier
... c Vulcan Inc., Seattle WA, US. ... We have implemented this approach as part of the DarkMatter
system and formally evaluated it in the context of the intermediate evaluation of Project Halo,
an initiative aiming at the creation of question answering systems by SMEs. ... 
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The KBMS Project and Beyond
[PDF] from uoa.grV Chaudhri, I Jurisica, M Koubarakis... - Conceptual Modeling: ..., 2009 - Springer
... greater amount of knowledge. As a methodological improvement, Vulcan's Project
Halo measures the size of a KB in terms of the questions it is able to answer on
a standardized college-level test [67]. While the approach of ... 
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[PDF] Textual Representation of Meaning
[PDF] from utilika.orgS Colowick - 2007 - utilika.org
... The Vulcan-sponsored Project Halo has the ultimate aim of building a knowledge repository and
question-answering system called the Digital Aristotle. In a 6-month pilot project, three teams
of researchers built knowledge bases of scientific information extracted from textbooks. ... 
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AURA: enabling subject matter experts to construct declarative knowledge bases from science textbooks
[PDF] from aaaipress.orgK Barker, VK Chaudhri, S Chaw, PE Clark... - PROCEEDINGS OF THE ..., 2007 - aaai.org
... Abstract The long-term goal of Project Halo is to build an application called Digital Aristotle that
can answer questions on a variety of science topics and provide user and domain appropriate
explanations. ... ISWC'06. Acknowledgement This work was funded by Vulcan Inc. AURA ... 
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Machine reading as a process of partial question-answering
[PDF] from aclweb.orgP Clark... - Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 First ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... We are optimistic that it can be further developed and im- proved for better machine reading in
the future. Acknowledgements We are grateful to Vulcan Inc. who partially sup- ported this work
through Project Halo. References Agirre, E., Marquez, L., Wicentowski, R., Eds., 2007. ... 
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[PDF] Tabling for Transaction Logic
[PDF] from psu.eduPFM Kifer - 2010 - Citeseer
... updating database * This work is part of the SILK (Semantic Inference on Large
Knowledge) effort within Project Halo, sponsored by Vulcan Inc. The authors were
also partially supported by the NSF grant 0964196. Permission ... 
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[PDF] User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Interface Enhancements to the Semantic MediaWiki
[PDF] from ontoprise.comF Pfisterer, M Nitsche... - ... on Semantic Web ..., 2008 - halodev.ontoprise.com
... The research described here is being conducted in the context of the larger, multistage project HALO
2, which has been funded since 2004 by Vulcan, Inc. Many colleagues at ontoprise GmbH and
AIFB contributed to the development of the interfaces described here. ... 
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Crowdsourced knowledge: peril and promise for conceptual structures research
M Keeler - Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge, 2011 - Springer
... MS references are to Peirce's manuscripts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University. [1] Peter
Clark, now at Vulcan's Project Halo, explains: [T]here are a whole variety of methods for weighing
up evidence, many of which essentially come down to weighted voting. ... 
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Introduction to the Special Issue on "Usable AI"
[PDF] from aaaipress.orgAD Jameson, A Spaulding... - AI Magazine, 2009 - aaai.org
... Province of Trento, while the author was visiting FBK-irst. Anthony Jameson and Aaron
Spaulding also benefitted from support from the project Halo 2, funded by Vulcan,
Inc. The work of Aaron Spaulding and Neil Yorke-Smith on ... 
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A question-answering system for AP Chemistry: Assessing KR&R technologies
[PDF] from aaaipress.orgK Barker, VK Chaudhri, SY Chaw, P Clark... - Proceedings of the Ninth ..., 2004 - aaai.org
... Full support for this research was provided by Vulcan Inc. as part of Project Halo ... representation
in Figure 6. The KM encodings for all chemistry knowledge, explanation templates and exam
questions are available on the Halo Pilot Project web site (http://www.projecthalo.com). ... 
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Capturing and answering questions posed to a knowledge-based system
[PDF] from utexas.eduP Clark, SY Chaw, K Barker, V Chaudhri... - Proceedings of the 4th ..., 2007 - dl.acm.org
... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are grateful to Vulcan Inc, which funded this work as part of Project
Halo. REFERENCES [1] Clark, P., Chaudhri, V. et al. (2003). Enabling Domain Experts to Convey
Questions to a Machine: A Modified, Template-Based Approach. In KCap'03. ... 
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[PDF] SBML2SMW: Bridging System Biology with Semantic Web Technologies for Biomedical Knowledge Acquisition and Hypothesis Elicitation
[PDF] from onto-med.deT Mathäß, P Haase, H Kitano... - OBML 2010 Workshop ..., 2010 - onto-med.de
... and SBGN compliance. The Project HALO is showing how low-cost highly-scalable
modeling of basic scientific knowledge in biology could be appropriately handled
with Semantic MediaWiki (SMW). System biology scientists ... 
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Towards a quantitative, platform-independent analysis of knowledge systems
[PDF] from kit.eduNS Friedland, PG Allen, M Witbrock... - Proc. Int'l Conf. ..., 2004 - aaai.org
... The data for our study was produced by the pilot phase of Project Halo. ... Once the encodings
were evaluated, Vulcan personnel submitted them to the respective sequestered systems.
The evaluations ran in batch mode. ... http://www.projecthalo.com. ... 
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Interpreting loosely encoded questions
[PDF] from aaaipress.orgJ Fan... - ... OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL ..., 2004 - aaai.org
... Tech- nical report, University of Texas at Austin. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mfkb/km.
html. Vulcan Inc. 2003. Project Halo. http://projecthalo.com. Weischedel, RM, and Sondheimer,
NJ 1983. Meta- rules as a basis for processing ill-formed input. ... 
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[PDF] Provenance, trust, explanations-and all that other meta knowledge
[PDF] from uni-koblenz.deR Dividino, S Schenk, S Sizov... - Künstliche Intelligenz (Feb. ..., 2009 - uni-koblenz.de
... but it is not hard to see that such expla- nations could be tailored by corresponding axioms to
consider 2The OntoNova framework presented here has been implemented in the Project Halo
and is available to download at http://www. projecthalo.com/downloads/improved ... 
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Halo I: A Controlled Experiment for Large Scale Knowledge Base Development
J Angele, E Moench, H Oppermann... - Logic Programming and ..., 2005 - Springer
... MEDLINE(r)1, for example, is an archive of 4,600 medical journals in thirty lan- guages,
containing over twelve million publications, with 2,000 added daily. * Full support for
this research was provided by Vulcan Inc. as part of Project Halo. ... 
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[PDF] The Halo Pilot: Towards A digital Aristotle
[PDF] from projecthalo.comN Friedland... - Retrieved April, 2004 - projecthalo.com
... 5 See www.projecthalo.com Page 6. ... Phase II of Project Halo will focus on reducing the cost of
knowledge and question formulation by assembling tools to allow domain experts, like chemists,
physicists, biologists and historians, to create knowledge representations ... Vulcan Inc. ... 
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Knowledge acquisition from simplified text
[PDF] from psu.eduK Livingston... - ... of the 12th international conference on ..., 2007 - dl.acm.org
... 777- 783, 26-29 Oct. 2003. 13. Project Halo. http://www.projecthalo.com/ 14. Riesbeck, CK From
Conceptual Analyzer to Direct Memory Access Parsing: An Overview. Advances in Cognitive
Science. pages 236-258 NE Sharkey (ed.), Prentice Hall. 1986. 15. ... 
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Talking about data: sharing richly structured information through blogs and wikis
[PDF] from mit.eduE Benson, A Marcus, F Howahl... - The Semantic Web-ISWC ..., 2010 - Springer
... From a visualization perspective, Wibit provides a WikiText syntax that enables SMW users to
create Exhibit visualizations that aggregate the re- sults of an ASK query (to be contrasted with
approaches like Project Halo [10] which make use of graphical interfaces). ... 
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Learning by reading: An experiment in text analysis
E Hovy - Text, Speech and Dialogue, 2006 - Springer
... A few years ago, three research groups, funded by Vulcan Inc., participated in an audacious
experiment called Project Halo: to (manually) convert the information ... http://www.projecthalo.com/
halotempl.asp?cid=30. 9. Girju, R., A. Baldulescu, and D. Moldovan. 2003. ... 
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Naturalness vs. predictability: A key debate in controlled languages
[PDF] from utexas.eduP Clark, W Murray, P Harrison... - Controlled Natural ..., 2010 - Springer
Page 1. NE Fuchs (Ed.): CNL 2009 Workshop, LNAI 5972, pp. 65-81, 2010. (c) Springer-Verlag
Berlin Heidelberg 2010 Naturalness vs. Predictability: A Key Debate in Controlled Languages
Peter Clark, William R. Murray, Phil Harrison, and John Thompson ... 
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Digital dullard [electronic science tutor]
S Cherry - Spectrum, IEEE, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... that matter. Similarly, in Project Halo's first contest, Noah Friedland, the program man-
ager responsible for the project at Vulcan, stuck to a very well-defined prob- lem, the
chemistry advanced-placement exam. Even Halo's second ... 
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Enabling experts to build knowledge bases from science textbooks
[PDF] from sri.comVK Chaudhri, BE John, S Mishra... - Proceedings of the 4th ..., 2007 - dl.acm.org
... ABSTRACT The long-term goal of Project Halo is to build an applica- tion called Digital Aristotle
that can answer questions on a wide variety of science topics and provide user- and
domain-appropriate ... ACKNOWLEDGMENT The work reported here was funded by Vulcan Inc. ... 
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[PDF] Beyond Corpus Lookup: Towards Heuristic Reasoning with Text
[PDF] from northwestern.eduP Paritosh - Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop ..., 2007 - qrg.northwestern.edu
... 1 http://www.projecthalo.com/ quired to successfully answer a broad range of questions like
those in the TREC question answering track is vast. ... Project Halo was an effort to systematically
analyze the capabilities and limitations of knowledge-based systems. ... 
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[CITATION] Project Halo
NS Friedland, PG Allen, G Matthews, M Witbrock... - 2004
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Toward cooperatively-built knowledge repositories
[PDF] from phmartin.infoP Martin, M Blumenstein... - Conceptual Structures: Common ..., 2005 - Springer
... Computerizing computer science. Communications of the ACM (1998), 41(9), 21-23. 9. Vulcan
Inc. Project Halo: Towards a Digital Aristotle. www.projecthalo.com 10. CA Welty and J. Jenkins.
Formal Ontology for Subject. Journal of Knowledge and Data Engineering (Sept. ... 
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[PDF] Towards deep reasoning with respect to natural language text in scientific domains
[PDF] from asu.eduC Baral, S Liang... - 2011 - public.asu.edu
... 1http://projecthalo.com/ KR language and often the skills needed to be well trained in KR is
different from the skills developed by domain ex- perts, thus resulting in a knowledge acquisition
bottleneck. ... Project halo update progress toward digital aristotle. AI Magazine Fall 2010. ... 
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Tackling the debugging challenge of rule based systems
V Zacharias - Enterprise Information Systems, 2009 - Springer
... 1 http://www.projecthalo.com Page 3. 146 V. Zacharias All of these projects used F-logic [2] as
representation language and the Ontobroker inference engine [3]. The editing tools differed
between the projects: Project Halo used the high level, graphical tools developed in the ... 
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Ontotrack: Combining browsing and editing with reasoning and explaining for owl lite ontologies
[PDF] from psu.eduT Liebig... - The Semantic Web-ISWC 2004, 2004 - Springer
... 2. Project-Website: Project Halo. http://www.projecthalo.com/ (2004) 3. Fiedland, NS, Allen, PG,
Witbrock, M., Matthews, G., Salay, N., Miraglia, P., Angele, J., Stab, S., Israel, D., Chaudhri, V.,
Porter, B., Barker, K., Clark, P.: Towards a Quantitative, Plattform-Independent Analysis ... 
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[PDF] On the mediation of levels of similarity in analogical comparisons
[PDF] from uni-osnabrueck.deRW Ferguson - Analogies: Integrating multiple cognitive ..., 2007 - cogpsy.uni-osnabrueck.de
... both. Acknowledgments This research was supported by the National Science
Foundation through the Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Program, as
well as by Vulcan, Inc. through the Project HALO initiative. The ... 
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[CITATION] Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Capture: October 23-26, 2003, Florida, USA: K-CAP 2003
SIGART. - 2003 - Association for Computing ...
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[PDF] Ontology-Based Meta-Inferencing
[PDF] from eddie-moench.deJ Angele, E Moench, H Oppermann, S Staab... - IICAI, 2003 - eddie-moench.de
... Abstract. Project Halo has the long-term objective of developing a digital Aristotle, ie a knowledge
system that is able to answer questions in a particular domain and give explanations for its
answers. ... 1 http://www.projecthalo.com 2 http://www.vulcan.com 3 The Advance ... 
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Frage-Antwort-Systeme und I-can-EIB
C Möbus - ... mit OpenSource Chatbots, Virtuelle Messen, Rich- ..., 2006 - Springer
... In response to a challenge presented by Vulcan, the initiative, dubbed Project Halo, is being
developed by three teams, each a leader in the field of ... 5Siehe http://www.projecthalo.com/, besucht
am 12.03.2005. Page 18. 46 4 Frage-Antwort-Systeme und I-can-EIB ... 
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Exploiting paraphrases and deferred sense commitment to interpret questions more reliably
[PDF] from aclweb.orgP Clark... - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... environment. Acknowledgements We are grateful to Vulcan Inc., who funded this work
as part of Project Halo. References Alshawi H., van Eijck, J. 1989. Logical Forms in
the Core Language Engine. Proc ACL, pp25- 32. Bentivogli ... 
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Rapid knowledge base design via extension of mid-level knowledge components
D Bostwick, J Everett, D Hunter... - ... of Knowledge Intensive ..., 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures is pursuing Project Halo [IO],
an effort to determine and advance the state of the art in knowledge acquisition
technology. Cycorp, Ontoprise, and SRI were funded to develop ... 
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[PDF] On the effective use of Cyc in a question answering system
[PDF] from cyc.comJ Curtis, G Matthews... - IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and ..., 2005 - cyc.com
... Cyc has been used in commercial web-search systems (eg HotBot) and in question-answering
systems, most re- cently in a purely deductive system for answering AP chem- istry questions,
developed in collaboration with Vulcan, Inc. [Friedland et al., 2004]. ... 
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The two cultures: Mashing up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web
[PDF] from gesis.orgA Ankolekar, M Krötzsch, T Tran... - Proceedings of the 16th ..., 2007 - dl.acm.org
... websites. The sheer amount of data on the Web is as challenging as the desire for
higher expressiv- 32http://www.projecthalo.com/ WWW 2007 / Track: Semantic Web
Session: Semantic Web and Web 2.0 830 Page 7. ity. On ... 
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Involving domain experts in authoring OWL ontologies
[PDF] from ghachey.infoV Dimitrova, R Denaux, G Hart, C Dolbear... - The Semantic Web- ..., 2008 - Springer
... experts. ROO follows the main steps in Kanga, the Ordnance Survey's methodology
for involving domain experts in the authoring of conceptual ontologies [20]. It includes
3 www.projecthalo.com Page 4. 4 V. Dimitrova et al. the ... 
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[PDF] Essays on Organization and Incentives in R&D and on Compatibility in Two-Sided Markets
[PDF] from uni-bonn.deE Goldfayn - 2008 - hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de
... pirical evidence. The venture capital division of Vulcan Inc., a corporation owned ... project Halo,
aimed at the development of the problem-solving software.2 National ... research teams working
on the same problem.4 2See www.projecthalo.com for details ... 
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Organization of RD With Two Agents and Principal
[PDF] from econstor.euE Goldfayn - 2006 - econstor.eu
... company used competing research teams to attack the problem.1 Similarly, Vulcan Inc., which ...
founder Paul Allen, has contracted three competing agencies for the project Halo, aimed at ...
chemicals 2The information about the project can be found at http://www.projecthalo.com 2 ... 
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[PDF] ÓÒÒ ÓÒ× Ù×× ÓÒ È Ô Ö×
[PDF] from repec.orgE Goldfayn - 2006 - repec.org
... company used competing research teams to attack the problem.1 Similarly, Vulcan Inc., which ...
founder Paul Allen, has contracted three competing agencies for the project Halo, aimed at ...
chemicals 2The information about the project can be found at http://www.projecthalo.com 2 ... 
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[PDF] The Two Cultures
[PDF] from snu.ac.krA Ankolekar, M Krötzsch, T Tran... - ACM WWW, 2007 - ids.snu.ac.kr
... websites. The sheer amount of data on the Web is as challenging as the desire for
higher expressiv- 32http://www.projecthalo.com/ WWW 2007 / Track: Semantic Web
Session: Semantic Web and Web 2.0 830 Page 7. ity. On ... 
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What has AI done for us?
M Georgeff, N Azarmi - BT technology journal, 2003 - Springer
Page 1. BT Technology Journal • Vol 21 No 4 • October 2003 15 What has AI done
for us? M Georgeff and N Azarmi This introductory paper describes how the technology
behind BT's iBusiness programme, namely AI, has been ... 
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Brief introduction to educational implications of Artificial Intelligence
[PDF] from uoregon.eduDG Moursund - 2006 - scholarsbank.uoregon.edu
Page 1. 1 Brief Introduction to Educational Implications of Artificial Intelligence The real problem
is not whether machines think but whether men do. (BF Skinner) Version 4/24/06. (Contains minor
changes and Web references update from version12/23/05.) David Moursund ... 
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[BOOK] Web-kommunikation mit opensource: chatbots, virtuelle messen, rich-media-content
C Möbus, J Feindt, C Janssen, S Sölbrandt... - 2005 - books.google.com
Page 1. Claus Möbus et al Web-Kommunikation mit OpenSource Page 2. Page 3.
Page 4. Page 5. Page 6. Page 7. Xpert.press Thls One 9QEA-6N2-TW5A Page 8.
Die Reihe Xpert.press vermittelt Professionals in den Bereichen ... 
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[PDF] KM-The knowledge machine 2.0: Users manual
[PDF] from utexas.eduP Clark, B Porter... - 2004 - userweb.cs.utexas.edu
... and other KB projects at University of Texas at Austin [5, 6]. It is the reasoning engine used in
Shaken, a knowledge acquisition and reasoning system used for several projects including the
Rapid Knowledge For- mation (RKF) project [7], Vulcan's Project Halo, and Project EPCA ... 
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[PDF] Incentives for the Semantic Web (INSEMTIVE 2008)
[PDF] from kit.eduD Vrandecic - 2008 - km.aifb.kit.edu
... Center, Karlsruhe, Germany Platinum Sponsors Ontoprise Gold Sponsors BBN
eyeworkers Microsoft NeOn SAP Research Vulcan Silver Sponsors ACTIVE ADUNA
Saltlux SUPER X-Media Yahoo Page 3. The 7th International ... 
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Financing of Competing Projects with Venture Capital PDF Logo
[PDF] from econstor.euE Goldfain... - 2005 - econstor.eu
... in its 2006 budget, more than a quarter should be developed by competing teams.1 Similarly,
Vulcan Inc., a ... corporation owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has contracted three
competing agencies for the project Halo, aimed at ... 2See www.projecthalo.com for details. 3 ... 
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[PDF] Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
[PDF] from northwestern.eduPK Paritosh - 2007 - eecs.northwestern.edu
... crippling factors. Project Halo was an effort to systematically analyze the capabilities and
limitations of knowledge-based systems. ... reasoning with these facts, if any at all. Project
Halo4 is an effort to systematically analyze the capabilities and limitations of ... 
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[PDF] FLOOD: A Planning Framework for Reasoning with Linguistic Data
[PDF] from cmu.eduC Huttenhower - LTI MS Thesis Proposal, Carnegie Mellon ..., 2003 - lti.cs.cmu.edu
... project. HALO, sponsored by Vulcan Inc., is an ongoing effort to develop
knowledge-based systems capable of answering novel questions given an initial
set of information in which the answers are not explicitly present. For ... 
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Die zwei Kulturen
A Ankolekar, M Krötzsch, T Tran... - Social Semantic Web, 2009 - Springer
... offenbar wurde. Beispiele dafür finden sich in der Medizin (z. B. [51]) oder den
Naturwissenschaften (wie etwa Projekt Halo34 [25]). Doch auch in 34 http://www.
projecthalo.com/ Page 17. Anupriya Ankolekar et al. 115 einfacheren ... 
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