Bruce W. Porter
Professor and Chairman of the
Department of Computer Sciences
at the University of Texas,
Austin
Head of the
Knowledge
Systems Research Group
Research
Our research develops methods for building
very large knowledge bases and using them to automatically answer
hard questions with coherent explanations.
Keywords: knowledge acquisition, automated reasoning, explanation
generation
Representative Publications
- K. Barker, et.al.
A Question-Answering System for AP Chemistry:
Assessing KR&R Technologies
The Ninth International Conference on the Principles
of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'2004).
(abstract
and
pdf).
- K. Barker, B. Porter, and P. Clark.
A Library of Generic Concepts for Composing Knowledge Bases.
First International Conference on Knowledge
Capture, 2001.
(abstract
and
pdf).
-
P. Clark and B. Porter. Building Concept Representations from
Reusable Components. Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI'97), 1997. Best Paper Award. (abstract
and pdf)
-
J. Rickel and B. Porter. Automated Modeling of Complex Systems to
Answer Prediction Questions. Artificial Intelligence Journal,
93(1-2), pp. 201-260, 1997.
(abstract
and
pdf)
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J. Lester and B. Porter. Developing and Empirically Evaluating Robust
Explanation Generators: The KNIGHT Experiments. Computational Linguistics
Journal, 23(1), pp. 65-101, 1997.
(abstract
and
pdf)
Teaching
Spring 2010: CS302: Computer Fluency
porter@cs.utexas.edu
phone: 512/471-9565
fax: 512/471-8885
.