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the record · 2002 · common sense reasoning

Adaptive linking between text and photos using common sense reasoning

Henry Lieberman & Hugo Liu (2002). Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (Eds. De Bra, Brusilovsky, Conejo), LNCS 2347, 2–11, Springer.

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ARIA watches an email or webpage take shape, continuously reorders a photo collection, and learns when the writer drags an image into the story. Parsing extracts people, places, things, and events; a weighted graph built from Open Mind Common Sense expands annotations across ordinary associations. That lets “bride” retrieve wedding, groom, veil, tuxedo, and wedding dress even when those words never labeled the image. Reinforcing convergent paths and penalizing high fan-out restrains some noise. The paper reports qualitative mutual adaptation—the suggestions changed what users remembered and wrote—but does not isolate commonsense expansion in a controlled trial. Its knowledge was culturally narrow, incomplete, ambiguous, and prone to drift, so the interface deliberately leaves irrelevant suggestions harmless and ignorable.

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