Conversational AI : Open Domain Question Answering and Commonsense Reasoning

An intelligent system must be capable of performing automated reasoning as well as responding to the changing environment (for example, changing knowledge). To exhibit such an intelligent behavior, a machine needs to understand its environment as well be able to interact with it to achieve certain goals. For acting rationally, a machine must be able to obtain information and understand it. Knowledge Representation (KR) is an important step of automated reasoning, where the knowledge about the world is represented in a way such that a machine can understand and process. Also, it must be able to accommodate the changes about the world (i.e., the new or updated knowledge). Using the generated knowledge base about the world, an intelligent system should be able to do complex tasks like question-answering (QA), summarization, medical reasoning and many more.