Common Sense Inference

What is (mathematical) inference?

Classic example

Not-so-classic example

Not-so-classic example

Not-so-classic example

Common sense inference vs. Mathematical inference

Common sense inference vs. Mathematical inference

Imprecise Definitions

Contingent statements

Incomplete reasoning

Incremental processing

Breadth-first exploration

If logic is broken, let’s fix it

Example-based approaches

Causal Diversity

Maybe combine techniques?

Common Sense vs. Statistical techniques

Implicit Inference

Common Sense and the Semantic Web