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  Unpublished.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]