University of Southern California University of Southern California

Envisioning With Weblogs

Andrew Gordon, Reid Swanson

ICT

Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Location: Graz, Austria
Host: International Conference on New Media Technology, Special Track on Knowledge Acquisition From the Social Web

We present a vision of how the stories that people tell in Internet weblogs can be used directly for automated commonsense reasoning, specifically to support the core envisionment functions of event prediction, explanation, and imagination.