New to the Second Edition
There has been intense activity in the field of commonsense reasoning since the first edition of this book, which was published in 2006. I have added three chapters to cover three areas that have blossomed since the first edition:
Chapter 15 discusses the use of answer set programming for efficient commonsense reasoning using the event calculus.
Chapter 18 discusses the use of unstructured information for commonsense reasoning, including the Watson system.
Chapter 19 discusses the acquisition of commonsense knowledge through crowdsourcing, text mining, and other techniques.
I have also added several sections and appendices:
• Section 11.3 discusses the epistemic functional event calculus.
• Appendix D discusses the ...
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