Extracting Human Goals from Weblogs.
Mark Kröll, Markus Strohmaier · MADOC (University of Mannheim) · 2009
Knowledge about human goals has been found to be an important kind of knowledge for a range of challenging problems, such as goal recognition from peoples ’ actions or reasoning about human goals. Necessary steps towards conducting such complex tasks involve (i) acquiring a broad range of human goals and (ii) making them accessible by structuring and storing them in a knowledge base. In this work, we focus on extracting goal knowledge from weblogs, a largely untapped resource that can be expected to contain a broad variety of human goals. We annotate a small sample of weblogs and devise a set of simple lexico-syntactic patterns that indicate the presence