Nuance Announces the Winograd Schema Challenge to Advance Artificial Intelligence Innovation

Burlington, Mass. and Quebec City, Quebec – July 28, 2014 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced an annual competition to develop programs that can solve the Winograd Schema Challenge, a test developed by Hector Levesque, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and winner of the 2013 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence. Nuance announced the challenge at the 28th AAAI Conference in Quebec, Canada.



Nuance is sponsoring the yearly competition in cooperation with CommonsenseReasoning.org, a research group dedicated to furthering and promoting research in the field of formal commonsense reasoning. CommonsenseReasoning.org will organize, administer, and evaluate the Winograd Schema Challenge. The winning program that passes the test will receive a grand prize of $25,000. The test is designed to judge whether a program has truly modeled human level intelligence.

Nuance Announces the Winograd Schema Challenge to Advance Artificial Intelligence Innovation