Thesis 1 Perspective Component1 #252218 A perspective is like a blog post, in which the goal is to generate a narrative which explains all the details while wiring graph nodes into that narrative: as a blog post, it should not be edited by others; use conversation nodes for that. |
Start date: 20130215 Latest edit: 20130215 Vision Statement We believe that the availability of the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA), coupled with a powerful text indexing and processing server (Solr), which coupled with a particular approach to organizing the indexed resources (topic maps), all coupled with a rich domain of open source natural language processing (NLP) tools, makes it possible to craft a software agent framework with many of the capabilities of IBM's Watson. A blog post about the SolrSherlock project is here. The project grows out of a much larger knowledge garden project, slides for which are found here. Approach We imagine our approach in terms of several steps to follow: - Harvest information resources into a topic map
- Answer questions by navigating the topic map
- Study the map for latent connections
The opening step in approach is to inject a society of agents into the Solr ecosystem, directly in Solr's response handler chain. Here, we posit an agent-based architecture necessary to support many tasks. One of the tasks entail maintaining the topic map by way of a merge agent; another task is that of building the topic map by way of harvesting agents. Issues Issues are legion; at the highest level they include but are not limited to: - Developer horsepower: the need for skilled, enthusiastic contributors
- Funding: the project will entail ISPs for serving the platform, professional contributions on really complex algorithms and coding
- Time: bandwidth to perform on the evolution of the platform
Solutions Our solutions, for the SolrSherlock project, are emerging at Github in relation to the primary components of the agent-based architecture: |
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