ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network

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Wordle: Brian's Thesis
Image provided by Worlde. Created from the text of my DPhil Thesis.

This is the home page for the ASKNet project. The following is a list of resources which will provide more information regarding this project. There will be more information available as the project progresses. (Note that prior to Dec 2006, the project was known as SaskNet).

Papers

  • ASKNet: Automatically Creating Semantic Knowledge Networks from Natural Language Text
    Brian Harrington
    DPhil Thesis. University of Oxford. 2009
    [PDF]
  • ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks
    Brian Harrington & Stephen Clark
    International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2(3), pp.343-364, 2009.
    [LINK]
  • ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks
    Brian Harrington & Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-08)
    Santa Clara, CA, 2008.
    [PDF]
  • ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network
    Brian Harrington & Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07)
    Vancouver, Canada, 2007.
    [PDF]
  • SaskNet: A Spreading Activation Based Semantic Network - Report on the Current State of Development
    Brian Harrington
    Unpublished. Submitted in Partial Completion of the Requirements for Transfer to DPhil Status
    Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 2006.
    [PDF]

Posters

  • ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network
    Presented at the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07)
    Small Version (1.2MB):[PDF]
    A0 Version (18.5MB):[PDF]

Presentations
These are slides & abstracts from some of the presentations given on the ASKNet project.

  • ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network
    Presented at the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07)
    Slides: [PDF]
  • SaskNet: Automatically Creating a Large Scale Semantic Knowledge Network
    Presented at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory Student Conference
    October 2006
    Abstract: [PDF] Slides: [PDF]
    Received Award: Best Overall Presentation: 1st Runner-up
  • Building a Semantic Network from Discourse Representation Structures
    Presented at the Flatlands 2006 Computational Linguistics Conference
    June 2006
    Slides: [PDF]

Supplimentary Files

  • Evaluation Files
    Formatted ASKNet output files and evaluation forms provided to test subjects for human evaluation of ASKNet output.
    Zip File: [ZIP]



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