Ernest Davis: Surveys and commentary

Should every undergraduate in NYU’s College of Arts and Science be required to achieve competency in “Data and Discovery”?. Unpublished. March 2024.

Benchmarks for Automated Commonsense Reasoning: A Survey. February 2023. ACM Computing Surveys, 56:4, article 81, 41 pages. Article in journal.

Mathematics, word problems, common sense, and artificial intelligence. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, April 2024. Earlier version, January 2023.

Comments on the "common sense" datasets in the Big-bench collection. November 2022.

"Learning by heart" in many languages. August 2022.

My Experience Teaching Logic in Undergraduate AI at NYU LogTeach-22. May 2022.

Pragmatic constraints and pronoun reference disambiguation: the possible and the impossible. arXiv 2204.01166. April 2022.

A short comment on AlphaCode, unpublished, February 2022.

The Defeat of the Winograd Schema Challenge, by Vid Kocijan, Ernest Davis, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Gary Marcus, and Leora Morgenstern. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 325, December 2023. Journal copy (paywalled).

Using human skills taxonomies and tests as measures of AI In Stuart Elliott (ed) AI and the Future of Skills, Volume 1: Capabilities and Assessments, OECD Publishing, 2021.

Has AI Found a New Foundation? by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis. The Gradient, September 2021.

A Flawed Dataset for Symbolic Equation Verification arXiv 2105.11379. May 2021.

The test set for the TransCoder system arXiv 2008.00293. August 2020.

Unanswerable questions about images and texts, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Language and Computation July 2020.

Question templates in the CycIC training set. May 2020; revised July 2020.

A Review of Winograd Schema Challenge Datasets and Approaches by Vid Kocijan, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Ernest Davis, Gary Marcus, and Leora Morgenstern. arXiv 2004.13831. April 2020.

The First Winograd Schema Challenge at IJCAI-16, E. Davis, L. Morgenstern, and C. Ortiz, AI Magazine, Fall 2017, pp. 97-98.

Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning: A Survey, JAIR August 2017, 59, 651-723.

The Logical Depth of Reasoning about Other Minds. Advances in Cognitive Systems, May 2017.

Winograd Schemas and Machine Translation arXiv 1608.01884. August 2016.

Evaluating CYC: Preliminary Notes Unpublished. July 2016.

Human tests of materials for the Winograd Schema Challenge 2016 Ernest Davis, Leora Morgenstern, and Charles Ortiz, 2016.

Planning, Executing, and Evaluating the Winograd Schema Challenge, by Leora Morgenstern, E. Davis, and Charles Ortiz, AI Magazine Spring 2016.

The Limitations of Standardized Science Tests as Benchmarks for Artificial Intelligence Research: Position Paper. arXiv 1411.1629. November 2014.

Recent Critiques of Big Data: Bibliography. Unpublished.

The Relevance of Proofs of the Rationality of Probability Theory to Automated Reasoning and Cognitive Models Unpublished, September 2013.

Physical Reasoning, in The Handbook of Knowledge Representation, Frank van Harmelen, Vladimir Lifschitz, and Bruce Porter (eds.), Elsevier, Oxford, 2008.

Progress in Formal Commonsense Reasoning. By E. Davis and L. Morgenstern. Artificial Intelligence, vol. 153, March 2004, nos. 1-2, pp. 1-12.

Knowledge Representation. The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds), Elsevier Science Pubs, Oxford, 2001. Revised for second edition, 2015.

Guide to Axiomatizing Domains in First-Order Logic . In Electronic Newsletter on Reasoning about Actions and Change Issue 99002, March 8, 1999.

Qualitative simulation and prediction. IEEE Expert, vol. 12, no. 3, 1997, p. 103.

Epistemic Logic and Its Applications and Epistemic Logic: Annotated Bibliography. By E. Davis and L. Morgenstern, Tutorial Notes, IJCAI-93.

Response to reviews of Representations of Commonsense Knowledge. Artificial Intelligence, vol. 61, 1993, pp. 175-179 .

Response to ``Prolegomena to any future Qualitative Physics,'' by Elisha Sacks and Jon Doyle Computational Intelligence, vol. 8, no. 2, 1991, pp. 316-318.

Commonsense Reasoning. In The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Stuart Shapiro, (ed.), John Wiley and Sons, 1987, pp. 833-840. Revised for second edition, 1990.

AI Research in Progress at the Courant Institute, New York University. Edited by E. Davis and R. Grishman. AI Magazine, Winter, 1986, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 82-86