Peter Clark

Research

I'm an Associate Technical Fellow in the Intelligent Information Systems Group within Boeing's Mathematics and Computing Technology Organization in Seattle, Washington, leading research in the areas of large knowledge bases, machine inference, commonsense reasoning, and natural language processing, with particular focus on how to acquire and exploit large amounts of domain knowledge. My current projects include:

AQUAINT (Advanced Question-Answering for Intelligence), aiming to perform advanced question-answering over large bodies of text. Our project ("From WordNet to a Knowledge Base for Question-Answering") aims to inject automated commonsense reasoning into this process by exploiting and further developing WordNet, a large on-line linguistic resource.
Halo II A project to acquire high-performance knowledge bases from domain experts (in the areas of physics, chemistry, and biology) and use them for question-answering. This is funded by Vulcan Inc, and is a follow-on from the earlier Halo Pilot project. We are working as part of the SRI Team, building a system called AURA.
Mobius (DARPA) An exploratory looking a large-scale knowledge acquisition and reasoning from text.

Pointers

My publications
Working notes - unpublished ideas and thoughts
Knowledge-based systems research worldwide - my Web catalog
The Boeing-Princeton-ISI Textual Entailment Test Suite
Ideas - some additional presentations on ideas about AI, knowledge bases, and the future.
Slide presentations on other people's work - discussion material on some good papers
KM - The Knowledge Machine, a powerful frame-based knowledge representation language, developed by myself, Bruce Porter, and the Univ. Texas KR group.
Topics in Knowledge Representation - informal notes, emails, and scribbles.
Other available software.
My resume.

Personal

I can sometimes be found camping, spending lots of time talking with friends, doing judo (sometimes...), and herding my three wonderful kids. Here are a few photos from this year.

Contact Information

Email: peter.e.clark@boeing.com
Voice: (425) 373 2905
Mail:: Boeing Research and Technology; PO Box 3707, m/s 7L-66, Seattle, WA 98124-2207, USA.; Or for courier packages requiring a street address:; Bldg 3301, m/s 7L-66, 2810 160th Ave SE, Bellevue, WA 98008, USA.

peter.e.clark@boeing.com