Fascinating note of work at the Technion. The idea of background or common-sense knowledge is an inportant one in artificial intelligence. Since a Wikis knowledge is potentially ever-changing, and we know the WP has led to much debate over the correctness of its knowledge, how would such an approach work?
" ... The program created by the research team uses a concept database, constructed from Wikipedia, to understand single words and phrases. The type of "background knowledge" that the researchers want computers to utilize is a vital part of human problem solving ability, "but we [previously] didn't know how to have computers access such knowledge," says Technion Faculty of Computer Science researcher Shaul Markovitch. Whereas current programs simply treat documents as a group of words, the new system aims to understand the meaning of the words it encounters..."
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