KUALA LUMPUR, 1 JUNE 2018 – Celcom Axiata Berhad, in its ongoing journey to create awesome moments and experiences for its customers, today announced its latest channel to serve customers -- a state-of-the-art Intelligent Virtual Agent service. Celcom's Intelligent Virtual Agent service brings together cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning technology, giving birth to two personas – Clive and Emma – with their own personalities that will interact with customers 24 7 with regard to their inquiries and transactions. The combination of technology, transaction capability and personality is the first of its kind in Asia. Both Clive and Emma are powered with Microsoft's AI & machine learning technology and will have the opportunity to initiate conversations with consumers with a personal and humanised touch, providing an awesome customer experience anywhere and at any time. Microsoft's Machine Learning feature will allow Clive and Emma to auto-learn questions variations via a knowledge-based system that improves their effectiveness over time.

We present KBLRN, a framework for end-to-end learning of knowledge base representations from latent, relational, and numerical features. KBLRN integrates feature types with a novel combination of neural representation learning and probabilistic product of experts models. To the best of our knowledge, KBLRN is the first approach that learns representations of knowledge bases by integrating latent, relational, and numerical features. We show that instances of KBLRN outperform existing methods on a range of knowledge base completion tasks. We contribute a novel data sets enriching commonly used knowledge base completion benchmarks with numerical features. The data sets are available under a permissive BSD-3 license. We also investigate the impact numerical features have on the KB completion performance of KBLRN.

GraphDB supports inference out of the box and provides updates to inferred facts automatically. Facts change all the time and the amount of resources it would take to manually manage updates or rerun the inferencing process would be overwhelming without this capability. This results in improved query speed, data availability and accurate analysis. GraphDB will use the data and the rules to infer more facts and thus produce a richer data set than the one you started with. GraphDB can be configured via "rule-sets" – sets of axiomatic triples and entailment rules – that determine the applied semantics.

The Journal Gazette reports that federal Judge Jon E. DiGuilio in South Bend issued a permanent injunction Monday sought by Grace College and Seminary. The ruling stops the enforcement of a portion of the law related to providing contraception, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization through student and employee health insurance plans.

Our state of mind is based on experiences and what other people tell us. This may result in conflicting information, uncertainty, and alternative facts. We present a robot that models relativity of knowledge and perception within social interaction following principles of the theory of mind. We utilized vision and speech capabilities on a Pepper robot to build an interaction model that stores the interpretations of perceptions and conversations in combination with provenance on its sources. The robot learns directly from what people tell it, possibly in relation to its perception. We demonstrate how the robot's communication is driven by hunger to acquire more knowledge from and on people and objects, to resolve uncertainties and conflicts, and to share awareness of the per- ceived environment. Likewise, the robot can make reference to the world and its knowledge about the world and the encounters with people that yielded this knowledge.

GuideR: a guided separate-and-conquer rule learning in classification, regression, and survival settings Marek Sikora a,b,, Łukasz Wróbel a,b,, Adam Gudyś a, a Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland b Institute of Innovative Technologies, EMAG, Leopolda 31, 40-189 Katowice, PolandAbstract This article presents GuideR, a user-guided rule induction algorithm, which overcomes the largest limitation of the existing methods---the lack of the possibility to introduce user's preferences or domain knowledge to the rule learning process. Automatic selection of attributes and attribute ranges often leads to the situation in which resulting rules do not contain interesting information. We propose an induction algorithm which takes into account user's requirements. Our method uses the sequential covering approach and is suitable for classification, regression, and survival analysis problems. The effectiveness of the algorithm in all these tasks has been verified experimentally, confirming guided rule induction to be a powerful data analysis tool. Introduction Sequential covering rule induction algorithms can be used for both, predictive and descriptive purposes [1, 2, 3, 4]. In spite of the development of increasingly sophisticated versions of those algorithms [5, 6], the main principle remains unchanged and involves two phases: rule growing and rule pruning. In the latter, some of these conditions are removed. In comparison to other machine learning methods, rule sets obtained by sequential covering algorithm, also known as separate-and-conquer strategy (SnC), are characterized by good predictive as well as descriptive capabilities. Taking into consideration only the former, superior results can often be obtained using other methods, e.g. However, data models obtained this way are much less comprehensible than rule sets. In the case of rule learning for descriptive purposes, the algorithms of association rule induction [12, 13, 14] or subgroup discovery [15, 6], are applied. The former leads to a very large number of rules which must then be limited by filtering according to rule interestingness measures [16, 17, 18]. Nevertheless, rule sets obtained by subgroup discovery are characterized by worse predictive abilities than those generated by the standard sequential covering approach. Therefore, if creating a prediction system with comprehensible data model is the main objective, the application of sequential covering rule induction algorithms provides the most sensible solution.

There has recently been a surge of work in explanatory artificial intelligence (XAI). This research area tackles the important problem that complex machines and algorithms often cannot provide insights into their behavior and thought processes. XAI allows users and parts of the internal system to be more transparent, providing explanations of their decisions in some level of detail. These explanations are important to ensure algorithmic fairness, identify potential bias/problems in the training data, and to ensure that the algorithms perform as expected. However, explanations produced by these systems is neither standardized nor systematically assessed. In an effort to create best practices and identify open challenges, we provide our definition of explainability and show how it can be used to classify existing literature. We discuss why current approaches to explanatory methods especially for deep neural networks are insufficient. Finally, based on our survey, we conclude with suggested future research directions for explanatory artificial intelligence.

This article is the continuation of the part 1 posted previously. In this article, I am explaining two key areas of focus in Artificial Intelligence. The aim of artificial intelligence is to make machines as intelligent as possible like human beings. Expert systems are knowledge based systems that rely on a knowledge base to solve a problem. A knowledge base can be represented in different forms such as rules, semantic networks, and decision trees.

Spanish police are introducing an artificial-intelligence system to detect liars.Credit: SubstanceP/Getty If you live in southern Spain, last June was not a good time to lose your smartphone and, as a way of getting an insurance payout, falsely claiming that you had been mugged. Ten police forces in Murcia and Malaga had some extra help in spotting your deceit: a computer tool that analysed statements given to officers about robberies and identified the telltale signs of a lie. According to results published in the journal Knowledge-Based Systems, the algorithm was so good at pointing officers towards false claimants that detection of such offences in one week was an impressive 31 and 49 for the respective regions, up from an average of 3 and 12 closed cases over the entire month (L. The government in Madrid is now rolling the system out across the country, and its developers are trying to apply its machine-learning methods to help detect other types of crime. In this case, the algorithm flagged up suspicious wording (based on a training set of statements known to be true and false), and left it up to the police to question suspects and get them to confess.

Inspired by the double temporality characteristic of narrative texts, we propose a novel approach for acquiring rich temporal "before/after" event knowledge across sentences in narrative stories. The double temporality states that a narrative story often describes a sequence of events following the chronological order and therefore, the temporal order of events matches with their textual order. We explored narratology principles and built a weakly supervised approach that identifies 287k narrative paragraphs from three large text corpora. We then extracted rich temporal event knowledge from these narrative paragraphs. Such event knowledge is shown useful to improve temporal relation classification and outperform several recent neural network models on the narrative cloze task.