In 1999, I began working on a project at the MIT Media Lab to collect common sense from volunteers on the internet. Since then, the Open Mind Common Sense project (OMCS) has expanded. The English site has from 700,000 sentences from over 15,000 contributers. There are OMCSes in Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, and Dutch.

With others in the Common Sense Computing Initative, I mantain the semantic network ConceptNet and work extensively on AnalogySpace. AnalogySpace makes rough conclusions about new common sense knowledge based on similarities and tendencies by forming the analogical closure of a semantic network through dimensionality reduction. I also work on a technique called Blending to inject common sense into other representations and reason over that data set with common sense.

I will be joining the media lab as a postdoc next year.

See my homepage:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~havasi/