This $175,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at the University of Southern California to develop more explainable artificial intelligence agents with common sense capabilities. The grant aims to advance techniques for AI agents to reason in novel situations, complete open-world narratives, and provide commonsense explanations for their judgments and decisions. Researchers will leverage commonsense knowledge and axioms about event causality and agent psychology to enrich narrative data and pre-train neuro-symbolic agents. The impact of various representational approaches, axiomatic theories, and knowledge dimensions on understanding situations and actions in narratives will be measured. The grant period runs from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024.
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