Conversational AI : Open Domain Question Answering and Commonsense Reasoning
Our research is focused on making a human-like question answering system which can answer rationally. The distinguishing characteristic of our approach is that it will use automated common sense reasoning to truly "understand" dialogues, allowing it to converse like a human. Humans often make many assumptions during conversations. We infer facts not told explicitly by using our common sense. Incorporating commonsense knowledge in a question answering system will simply make it more robust.
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