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The book under review here, Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project, describes progress so far in an attempt to build a system that is intended to exhibit general common-sense reasoning ability.
However, since 2001 (the date of a symposium on common sense reasoning held at The Courant Institute see The Common Sense 2001 Homepage) something like a cooperative, sustained effort in this direction has begun to emerge.
There seem to be many legitimate reasons for neglecting certain cases in common sense reasoning.
Section 2.2 drew attention to McCarthy's proposed goal of formalizing common sense reasoning.
Nonmonotonic reasoning plays an important role in the development of artificial intelligent systems that try to mimic common sense reasoning, as exhibited by humans.
We find at the very beginning of logic a discrepancy between the scope of logical theory and common sense reasoning.
Among other methods borrowed from computer science, the common sense reasoning community has sought to develop suites of "benchmark problems".
Bringing an eclectic set of conceptual tools to the problem of idealized reasoning in realistic settings, and using computers to model and test the theories, research in AI has transformed the study of reasoning especially of practical, common sense reasoning.
Garfinkel's classic studies were designed to expose the methods of common sense reasoning that actors employ in this process.
Common Sense Reasoning has been most successful in the field of natural language processing (NLP), though notable work has been done in other areas.
Although modern logical techniques do account with some success for the reasoning involved in verifying mathematical proofs and logic puzzles, they do not explain other cases of technical or common sense reasoning with much detail or plausibility.
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