?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Towards+Avatars+with+Artificial+Minds%3A+Role+of+Semantic+Memory&rft.creator=Szymanski%2C+Julian&rft.creator=Sarnatowicz%2C+Tomasz&rft.creator=Duch%2C+Wlodzislaw&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Human+Computer+Interaction&rft.description=he+first+step+towards+creating+avatars+with+human-like+artificial+minds+is+to+give+them+human-like+memory+structures+with+an+access+to+general+knowledge+about+the+world.+This+type+of+knowledge+is+stored+in+semantic+memory.+Although+many+approaches+to+modeling+of+semantic+memories+have+been+proposed+they+are+not+very+useful+in+real+life+applications+because+they+lack+knowledge+comparable+to+the+common+sense+that+humans+have%2C+and+they+cannot+be+implemented+in+a+computationally+efficient+way.+The+most+drastic+simplification+of+semantic+memory+leading+to+the+simplest+knowledge+representation+that+is+sufficient+for+many+applications+is+based+on+the+Concept+Description+Vectors+(CDVs)+that+store%2C+for+each+concept%2C+an+information+whether+a+given+property+is+applicable+to+this+concept+or+not.+Unfortunately+even+such+simple+information+about+real+objects+or+concepts+is+not+available.+Experiments+with+automatic+creation+of+concept+description+vectors+from+various+sources%2C+including+ontologies%2C+dictionaries%2C+encyclopedias+and+unstructured+text+sources+are+described.+Haptek-based+talking+head+that+has+an+access+to+this+memory+has+been+created+as+an+example+of+a+humanized+interface+(HIT)+that+can+interact+with+web+pages+and+exchange+information+in+a+natural+way.+A+few+examples+of+applications+of+an+avatar+with+semantic+memory+are+given%2C+including+the+twenty+questions+game+and+automatic+creation+of+word+puzzles.+%0A%0A&rft.publisher=American+Scientific+Publishers&rft.date=2007&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5357%2F1%2F06-Avatars.pdf&rft.identifier=++Szymanski%2C+Julian+and+Sarnatowicz%2C+Tomasz+and+Duch%2C+Wlodzislaw++(2007)+Towards+Avatars+with+Artificial+Minds%3A+Role+of+Semantic+Memory.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5357%2F