Overview

The long term goal of the SNePS Research Group is to understand the nature of intelligent cognitive processes by developing and experimenting with computational cognitive agents that are able to use and understand natural language, reason, act, and solve problems in a wide variety of domains.

The principal research area of the Group is knowledge representation and reasoning in support of natural-language competent autonomous agents. Secondary areas are natural language understanding and generation by such agents.

The senior members of the Group are

• Stuart C. Shapiro, Director

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
• William J. Rapaport, Associate Director

Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy
• Jean-Pierre Koenig

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
• Carl Alphonce

Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

The current graduate students in the Group, all Ph.D. students in Computer Science and Engineering are

Bharat Bhushan, Debra T. Burhans, Robert G. Church,
Haythem O. Ismail, Frances L. Johnson, Tiago V. Maia,
Anthony Petre, John F. Santore, Li Zhang

The theories developed by the Group are implemented in SNePS, a knowledge representation/reasoning/acting system, and in Cassie, the SNePS cognitive agent. SNePS is freely available via ftp from the SNePS Web site.
 

• Selected Publications

Tue Aug 29 15:35:18 EDT 2000