Using common sense to recognize cultural differences

Authors:
Junia Anacleto;Henry Lieberman;Aparecido de Carvalho;Vânia Néris;Muriel Godoi;Marie Tsutsumi;Jose Espinosa;Américo Talarico;Silvia Zem-Mascarenhas
Affiliations:
Advanced Interaction Laboratory – LIA, UFSCar, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;Advanced Interaction Laboratory – LIA, UFSCar, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Advanced Interaction Laboratory – LIA, UFSCar, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Advanced Interaction Laboratory – LIA, UFSCar, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Advanced Interaction Laboratory – LIA, UFSCar, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;Advanced Interaction Laboratory – LIA, UFSCar, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Advanced Interaction Laboratory – LIA, UFSCar, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Venue:
IBERAMIA-SBIA'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international joint conference, and Proceedings of the 10th Ibero-American Conference on AI 18th Brazilian conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This work focuses on evaluating whether cultural differences can be recognized in knowledge bases that store common sense. We are studying this issue using knowledge bases in different languages that contain thousands of sentences describing people and everyday activities, collected from volunteer Web contributors, in three different cultures: Brazil, Mexico and the USA. We describe our experiences with these knowledge bases, and software which automatically searches for cultural differences amongst the three cultures taking into account the eating habits of those cultures, alerting the user to potential differences. Though preliminary, we hope that our work will contribute to software that takes better account of such differences, and fosters inter-cultural collaboration.