Higher-level cognition includes logical reasoning and the ability of question answering with common sense. The RatioLog project addresses the problem of rational reasoning in deep question answering by methods from automated deduction and cognitive computing. In a first phase, we combine techniques from information ...

Question answering systems aim to provide concise and correct responses to arbitrary questions, communicating with the user in a natural language. This way they help making the knowledge of large textual sources accessible in an intuitive manner which goes beyond the capabilities of conventional search engines. In the ...

Academic Computer Science emerged in Germany at the end of the 1960s. In 2017, the Munich universities celebrated “50 Years of Computer Science in Munich”. To this occasion various events were held; also, there was a special issue in the Informatik Spektrum, the official journal of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. ...

The adjective cognitive especially in conjunction with the word computing seems to be a trendy buzzword in the artificial intelligence community and beyond nowadays. However, the term is often used without explicit definition. Therefore we start with a brief review of the notion and define what we mean by cognitive ...

This note is intended as a contribution to the discussion whether artificial systems can have consciousness. Based on the notion of Tononi’s Information Integration Theory we will argue, that AI systems that have to reason with large knowledge bases need such techniques in order to handle them efficiently. We furthermore ...