About Me:

 Bio and Publications
 Spring '09 Schedule
 Cynthia at Cycorp

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 Cynthia Matuszek
 University of Washington
 Dept. of Computer
   Science and Engineering
 Box 352350
 Seattle, WA 98195-2350

Bio:

I am a second-year graduate student in the University of Washington's Computer Science and Engineering department, working with Dieter Fox. My research interests include machine learning, robotics, automated construction of semantically-rich knowledge, and the intersection of numerical and knowledge-based methods in AI. I'm also interested in computer security as it intersects with artificial intelligence,

Prior to coming to UW, I worked at Cycorp. My work there focused on using knowledge in the Cyc knowledge base to support machine learning of additional knowledge. This work included the addition to Cyc of components for knowledge acquisition from web search, and inductive learning over that knowledge.

Relevant Publications:

• Autonomous Classification of Knowledge into an Ontology. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International FLAIRS Conference, Key West, FL, May 2007. Matthew E. Taylor, C. Matuszek, B. Klimt, M. Witbrock.

• Guiding Inference with Policy Search Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International FLAIRS Conference, Key West, FL, May 2007. Matthew E. Taylor, C. Matuszek, P. Reagan Smith, M. Witbrock.

• Common Sense Reasoning – From Cyc to Intelligent Assistant In Yang Cai and Julio Abascal (eds.), Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life, pp. 1-31, LNAI 3864, Springer, 2006. Kathy Panton, C. Matuszek, D.B. Lenat, D. Schneider, M. Witbrock, N. Siegel, B. Shepard.

• Automated Population of Cyc: Extracting Information about Named-entities from the Web. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International FLAIRS Conference, pp. 153-158, Melbourne Beach, FL, May 2006. Purvesh Shah, D. Schneider, C. Matuszek, R.C. Kahlert, B. Aldag, D. Baxter, J. Cabral, M. Witbrock, J. Curtis.

• An Introduction to the Syntax and Content of Cyc. In Proc. of the 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium on Formalizing and Compiling Background Knowledge and Its Applications to Knowledge Representation and Question Answering, Stanford, CA, March 2006. C. Matuszek, J. Cabral, M. Witbrock, J. DeOliveira.

• Converting Semantic Meta-Knowledge into Inductive Bias. In Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, Bonn, Germany, August 2005. J. Cabral, R.C. Kahlert, C. Matuszek, M. Witbrock, B. Summers.

• Searching for Common Sense: Populating Cyc from the Web. In Proc. of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 2005. C. Matuszek, M. Witbrock, R. Kahlert, J. Cabral, D. Schneider, P. Shah and D. Lenat.

• A Knowledge-Based Approach to Network Security: Applying Cyc in the Domain of Network Risk Assessment. In Proc. of the Seventeenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 2005. B. Shepard, C. Matuszek, C.B. Fraser, W. Wechtenhiser, D. Crabbe, Z. Güngördü, J. Jantos, T. Hughes, L. Lefkowitz, M. Witbrock, D. Lenat, E. Larson.

• Gathering and Managing Facts for Intelligence Analysis. In Proc. of the 2005 International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, McLean, Virginia, May 2005. D. Schneider, C. Matuszek, P. Shah, R. Kahlert, D. Baxter, J. Cabral, M. Witbrock, D. Lenat.

• Knowledge Begets Knowledge: Steps towards Assisted Knowledge Acquisition in Cyc. in Papers from the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors (KCVC), pp. 99-105. Stanford, California, March 2005. M. Witbrock, C. Matuszek, A. Brusseau, R.C. Kahlert, C.B. Fraser, D. Lenat.