Uso do Senso Comum na detecção de diferenças culturais no contexto do Projeto OpenMind CommonSense no Brasil
Abstract
Knowing what is specific about each culture would be helpful to perform
cross cultural communication, because different cultures have different notions of how
to begin and develop conversations.
Due theses difficulties in differences in cultural norms, we are working to
provide to computers this knowledge, since computer environment can allow
communication across distance and across cultures.
In order to provide to computers cross cultural knowledge, we have
collected large knowledge bases representing Common Sense knowledge because we
believe that Common Sense knowledge can give some guidelines about different
cultures.
In our research, we have used bases containing sentences describing
common sense knowledge of people and everyday activities, beliefs and values
collected from volunteer Web contributors.
Furthermore, we describe experiences with these knowledge bases, and we
are proposing software which automatically searches for cultural differences related to
eating habits, alerting the user to potential differences among cultures. In this way, we
hope that our work will contribute to software that takes better account of such
differences, and fosters inter-cultural collaboration