Exocortex Paper

December 29, 2008

I have finished my independent study course titled Exploring the Exocortex.

I enjoyed it immensely and learned a lot while doing it, only some of which I was able to condense into the paper below.

Some thanks:

• Dan Grover -- for mentioning MontyLingua to me and speeding up the development process many-fold
• Hugo Lin -- for MontyLingua
• Steven Bird, Edward Loper, and Ewan Klein -- for NLTK
• James Allen -- for providing the impetus to choose VerbNet over FrameNet thus saving me many headaches.
• Timothy Hickey -- for advising the course and allowing such non-standard research to take place

The paper:

“Exploring the Exocortex: An Approach to Optimizing Human Productivity” by Michael Katsevman^PDF

I will publish the code soon as I finish cleaning it up and packaging.