Introduction
A recent research article of mine, Artificial Wisdom [1], pertains to search engines and
recommender systems for: anecdotes, proverbs, quotations, lyrics, poetry, narratives (e.g.
parables, allegories), and humor. I refer to these materials as wisdom materials.
A variety of social media bot is described with an integrated recommender system for
wisdom materials. Wiki technology is described as a reasonable option to consider for
producing and maintaining dynamic corpora of wisdom materials to be utilized by such
systems.
Social Media Bots with Integrated Recommender Systems
Wisdom materials could be provided to users daily, quote-of-the-day services, or on an
as-needed basis, whenever a social media bot determines that a wisdom material could
provide value to a user. Recommended wisdom materials could be sent to users via a number
of possible channels (e.g. social media websites, instant messenger applications,
e-mail).
To ensure that recommended wisdom materials provide value to users, recommender systems
could utilize users’ social media posts and other content to obtain context data. Systems
could process users’ posts and content including to estimate users’ affect or complex
mental states. Should a user indicate that they are sad, utilizing a status update or by
otherwise sharing that information in a post with their friends and a social media bot,
the social media bot could send one or more wisdom materials to uplift the user.
Recommender systems for wisdom materials, operating at scale, could learn and improve over
the course of time. Users could be provided with a number of options for providing
feedback with respect to wisdom material recommendations. Systems could also process
users’ social media posts and content before, during and after encounters with recommended
wisdom materials. Did a recommended wisdom material provide value to, e.g. uplift, a user
in a context?
Utilizing technology such as Solid, social media bots with integrated recommender systems
can provide value to users while simultaneously protecting users’ data privacy.
Wiki Technology
Wiki technology is a reasonable option to consider for producing and maintaining dynamic
corpora of wisdom materials. Such Wiki systems could be utilized by organizations
stewarding social media bots, by larger numbers of users, or by the general public.
Some varieties of wisdom materials tend to make use of figurative language. Accordingly,
the indexing of such materials shouldn’t necessarily utilize the literal text of the
items. For instance, the proverb “a rolling stone gathers no moss” is not best indexed and
searched for by its lexemes. One desires to search, somehow, for the contents of the
interpretations of the items rather than for the literal text of the items. Contextual
searching is also desirable. Varieties of wisdom materials should be modeled; a wisdom
material, for instance, could have multiple interpretations and each interpretation could
have text content for indexing, keywords, categories, and so forth.
The modeling of wisdom materials, Wiki-based technology for producing and maintaining
dynamic corpora of wisdom materials, and social media bots with integrated recommender
systems for wisdom materials are indicated to be contemporary research topics.
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
[1]
http://www.phoster.com/artificial-wisdom/