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21st FLAIRS Conference 2008: Coconut Grove, Florida, USA
- David Wilson, H. Chad Lane:
Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, May 15-17, 2008, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA. AAAI Press 2008, ISBN 978-1-57735-365-2
Invited Speakers
- Bruce G. Buchanan:
An AI Model of Creativity. 2-9 - Alfred Kobsa:
Privacy-Enhanced Personalization. 10 - Candace L. Sidner:
Humanoid Agents as Hosts, Advisors, Companions, and Jesters. 11-15
Special Track Invited Speakers
- Kevin D. Ashley:
Some Thoughts on Using Computers to Teach Argumentation. 17 - Jean-Pierre Desclés:
Towards a Bridge between Cognitive Linguistics and Formal Ontology. 18-19 - David B. Leake:
Provenance and Case-Based Reasoning. 20 - Florian Stadlbauer:
Belief Update Using Graphs. 21
General Conference
Papers
- Tom Armstrong, Tim Oates:
Learning in the Lexical-Grammatical Interface. 23-28 - Rhoda Baggs, Dan E. Tamir:
Non-Rigid Image Registration. 29-34 - Jason R. Beck, Maria Garcia, Mingyu Zhong, Michael Georgiopoulos, Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos:
A Backward Adjusting Strategy and Optimization of the C4.5 Parameters to Improve C4.5's Performance. 35-40 - Abdeslam Boularias, Masoumeh T. Izadi, Brahim Chaib-draa:
State Space Compression with Predictive Representations. 41-46 - Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty:
Unsupervised Approach for Selecting Sentences in Query-based Summarization. 47-52 - Shunkai Fu, Michel C. Desmarais, Fan Li:
One-Pass Learning Algorithm for Fast Recovery of Bayesian Network. 53-58 - Steven Gutstein, Olac Fuentes, Eric Freudenthal:
The Utility of Knowledge Transfer for Noisy Data. 59-64 - Bernhard Heinemann:
Modelling Uniformity and Control during Knowledge Acquisition. 65-70 - Federico Heras, Vasco Manquinho, João Marques-Silva:
On Applying Unit Propagation-Based Lower Bounds in Pseudo-Boolean Optimization. 71-76 - Malek Mouhoub, Amrudee Sukpan:
Conditional and Composite Constraints with Preferences. 77-82 - Pramod Lakshmi Narasimha, Sanjeev S. Malalur, Michael T. Manry:
Small Models of Large Machines. 83-88 - Francisco Javier Ordóñez, Agapito Ledezma, Araceli Sanchis:
Genetic Approach for Optimizing Ensembles of Classifiers. 89-94 - Chinar C. Shah, Xingquan Zhu, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Justin Beyer:
Contrast Pattern Mining with Gap Constraints for Peptide Folding Prediction. 95-100 - Nima Taghipour:
Utilizing Content to Enhance a Usage-Based Method for Web Recommendation Based on Q-Learning. 101-105
Posters
- Richard Dapoigny, Patrick Barlatier:
Causal Reasoning with Contexts Using Dependent Types. 107-108 - Charles W. Fox, Neil Girdhar, Kevin N. Gurney:
A Causal Bayesian Network View of Reinforcement Learning. 109-110 - Avelino J. Gonzalez, Setsuo Tsuruta, Johann Nguyen, Yoshitaka Sakurai, Kouhei Takada, Ken Uchida:
Using Contexts to Supervise a Collaborative Process. 111-112 - Sebastian Hübner, Ubbo Visser:
Temporal Representation and Reasoning for the Semantic Web. 113-114 - Peter Kühnlein:
More or Less Elaborate. 115-116 - James B. Marshall, Neil K. Makhija, Zachary D. Rothman:
The Introspective Robot: Using Self-Prediction to Improve Robot Learning. 117-118 - Scott A. Wallace, Matthew Henry:
Towards a Generic Infrastructure to Adjust the Autonomy of Soar Agents. 119-120 - Nan Xing, Imran Shafiq Ahmad:
Fuzzy Clustering Paradigm and the Shape-Based Image Retrieval. 121-122
Special Tracks
Applied Natural Language Processing
- Cosmin Adrian Bejan:
Unsupervised Discovery of Event Scenarios from Texts. 124-129 - Sihem Belabbes, Gilles Richard:
On Using SVM and Kolmogorov Complexity for Spam Filtering. 130-135 - Scott A. Crossley, Thomas L. Salsbury, Philip M. McCarthy, Danielle S. McNamara:
Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Explore Second Language Lexical Development. 136-141 - Xinyu Dai, Baoming Tian, Junsheng Zhou, Jiajun Chen:
Incorporating Latent Semantic Indexing into Spectral Graph Transducer for Text Classification. 142-146 - Gaël Dias, Raycho Mukelov, Guillaume Cleuziou:
Unsupervised Learning of General-Specific Noun Relations from the Web. 147-152 - Xiaofei Lu:
Automatic Measurement of Syntactic Complexity Using the Revised Developmental Level Scale. 153-158 - Mehdi Manshadi, Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon:
Learning a Probabilistic Model of Event Sequences from Internet Weblog Stories. 159-164 - Philip M. McCarthy, Vasile Rus, Scott A. Crossley, Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara:
Assessing Forward-, Reverse-, and Average-Entailer Indices on Natural Language Input from the Intelligent Tutoring System, iSTART. 165-170 - Andrew Neel, Max H. Garzon, Vasile Rus:
A Semantic Method for Textual Entailment. 171-176 - Cristina Nicolae, Gabriel Nicolae:
CANDEL: An Algorithm for Same-Sentence Pronominal Resolution. 177-182 - Shiyan Ou, Constantin Orasan, Dalila Mekhaldi, Laura Hasler:
Automatic Question Pattern Generation for Ontology-based Question Answering. 183-188 - I. Burak Özyurt:
A Semantic Parser for Neuro-Degenerative Disease Knowledge Discovery. 189-194 - Amruta Purandare, Diane J. Litman:
Analyzing Dialog Coherence Using Transition Patterns in Lexical and Semantic Features. 195-200 - Vasile Rus, Philip M. McCarthy, Mihai C. Lintean, Danielle S. McNamara, Arthur C. Graesser:
Paraphrase Identification with Lexico-Syntactic Graph Subsumption. 201-206 - Roberta Evans Sabin, Kerri A. Goodwin, Jade Goldstein-Stewart, Joseph A. Pereira:
Gender Differences across Correlated Corpora: Preliminary Results. 207-212 - Hansen Andrew Schwartz, Fernando Gomez, Christopher Millward:
A Semantic Feature for Verbal Predicate and Semantic Role Labeling Using SVMs. 213-218 - M. Sravanthi, C. Ravindranath Chowdary, P. Sreenivasa Kumar:
QueSTS: A Query Specific Text Summarization System. 219-223
Posters
- Anna Feldman, Ghazi Abuhakema, Eileen Fitzpatrick:
ARIDA: An Arabic Interlanguage Database and Its Applications: A Pilot Study. 225-226 - Petr Homola, Vladislav Kubon:
A Hybrid Machine Translation System for Typologically Related Languages. 227-228 - Vladislav Kubon, Miroslav Spousta:
Multilingual Approach to e-Learning from a Monolingual Perspective. 229-230 - Sean R. Szumlanski, Fernando Gomez:
Adapting Decision Trees for Learning Selectional Restrictions. 231-232
AI Education
- Zachary Dodds:
Leveraging Laptops: Resources for Low-Cost Low-Level AI. 234-239 - Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Igor Wojnicki:
Concept of an Interactive Web Portal for Teaching Prolog. 240-244 - Michael Wollowski:
From Foundations to Current Work in a One Quarter Course on Artificial Intelligence. 245-249
Case-Based Reasoning
- Michael W. Floyd, Babak Esfandiari, Kevin Lam:
A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Imitating RoboCup Players. 251-256 - Matthew Molineaux, David W. Aha, Philip Moore:
Learning Continuous Action Models in a Real-Time Strategy Environment. 257-262 - Houcine Romdhane, Luc Lamontagne:
Reinforcement of Local Pattern Cases for Playing Tetris. 263-268
Data Mining
- Ping Chen, Rakesh M. Verma, Janet C. Meininger, Wenyaw Chan:
Semantic Analysis of Association Rules. 270-275 - Jorge de la Calleja, Olac Fuentes, Jesús González:
Selecting Minority Examples from Misclassified Data for Over-Sampling. 276-281 - Ulf Johansson, Henrik Boström, Rikard König:
Extending Nearest Neighbor Classification with Spheres of Confidence. 282-287 - Rikard König, Ulf Johansson, Lars Niklasson:
Using Genetic Programming to Increase Rule Quality. 288-293 - Thomas W. H. Lui, David K. Y. Chiu:
Complementary Analysis of High-Order Association Patterns and Classification. 294-299 - Aniket Ray, Vikas Kumar, Balaraman Ravindran, Lingam Gopal, Aditya Verma:
Machine Learning to Predict the Incidence of Retinopathy of Prematurity. 300-305 - Chris Seiffert, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Jason Van Hulse, Amri Napolitano:
Building Useful Models from Imbalanced Data with Sampling and Boosting. 306-311 - Xiaoyuan Su, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Russell Greiner:
A Mixture Imputation-Boosted Collaborative Filter. 312-316
Posters
- Mark A. Hall, Eibe Frank:
Combining Naive Bayes and Decision Tables. 318-319 - P. Swaminathan, Balaraman Ravindran:
Co-SOFT-Clustering: An Information Theoretic Approach to Obtain Overlapping Clusters from Co-Occurrence Data. 320-321
Design, Evaluation, and Refinement of Intelligent Systems
- Martin Atzmüller, Frank Puppe:
Semi-Automatic Refinement and Assessment of Subgroup Patterns. 323-328 - Joachim Baumeister, Martina Menge, Frank Puppe:
Visualization Techniques for the Evaluation of Knowledge Systems. 329-334 - Rainer Knauf, Ronald Boeck, Yoshitaka Sakurai, Setsuo Tsuruta:
A Priori Evaluation and Refinement of Curricula by Data Mining over Storyboards. 335-340 - Antoni Ligeza, Grzegorz J. Nalepa:
Granular Logic with Variables for Implementation of Extended Tabular Trees. 341-346 - Grzegorz J. Nalepa:
UServ Case Study, Conceptual Design with ARD+ Method. 347-352 - Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Igor Wojnicki:
Towards Formalization of ARD+ Conceptual Design and Refinement Method. 353-358 - Dietmar Seipel, Joachim Baumeister:
Declarative Specification and Interpretation of Rule-Based Systems. 359-364 - Neli P. Zlatareva, Maria Nisheva-Pavlova:
Alignment of Heterogeneous Ontologies: A Practical Approach to Testing for Similarities and Discrepancies. 365-369
Posters
- Rainer Knauf, Horst Duesel:
Towards Verification of Storyboards. 371-372 - Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Igor Wojnicki:
ARD+ Design and Visualization Tool-Chain Prototype in Prolog. 373-374
Games and Entertainment
- Denton Cockburn, Ziad Kobti:
Memory-Bounded D* Lite. 376-380 - Klaus P. Jantke:
German Girls Are Goofy. An Investigation into the Knowledge Deficiencies of Digital Games that Are Designed for Learning. 381-385 - Arnav Jhala, Curtis Rawls, Samuel Munilla, Robert Michael Young:
Longboard: A Sketch Based Intelligent Storyboarding Tool for Creating Machinima. 386-390
Posters
- Hsiu-Chin Lin, Colleen van Lent:
Win, Lose, or Get Out the Way - Eliminating Unnecessary Evaluation in Game Search. 392-393 - Martin Van Velsen:
Narratoria, an Authoring Suite for Digital Interactive Narrative. 394-395
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Mike Birch, Carole R. Beal:
Problem Posing in AnimalWatch: An Interactive System for Student-Authored Content. 397-402 - Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Gwendolyn E. Campbell, Charles B. Callaway, Natalie B. Steinhauser, Elaine Farrow, Johanna D. Moore, Leslie A. Butler, Colin Matheson:
Diagnosing Natural Language Answers to Support Adaptive Tutoring. 403-408 - Philippe Fournier-Viger, Roger Nkambou, André Mayers:
A Framework for Evaluating Semantic Knowledge in Problem-Solving-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems. 409-414 - Robert G. M. Hausmann, Brett van de Sande, Kurt VanLehn:
Trialog: How Peer Collaboration Helps Remediate Errors in an ITS. 415-420 - Nguyen-Thinh Le, Wolfgang Menzel:
The Coverage of Error Diagnosis in Logic Programming Using Weighted Constraints - The Case of an Ill-Defined Domain. 421-426 - Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne H. Ward, James H. Martin:
Learning to Assess Low-Level Conceptual Understanding. 427-432 - Niels Pinkwart, Kevin D. Ashley, Vincent Aleven, Collin F. Lynch:
Graph Grammars: An ITS Technology for Diagram Representations. 433-438 - Amruta Purandare, Diane J. Litman:
Content-Learning Correlations in Spoken Tutoring Dialogs at Word, Turn, and Discourse Levels. 439-443
Posters
- Usef Faghihi, Pierre Poirier, Daniel Dubois, Mohamed Gaha:
A New Emotional Architecture for Cognitive Tutoring Agents. 445-446 - Dave Gomboc, Mark G. Core, H. Chad Lane, Ashish Karnavat, Milton Rosenberg:
An Intelligent Tutoring Architecture for Simulation-Based Training. 447-448
Logics, General Ontologies, Categorization and Semantic Annotation
- Iana Atanassova, Antoine Blais, Jean-Pierre Desclés:
A Cross-Lingual Approach to the Discourse Automatic Annotation: Application to French and Bulgarian. 450-455 - Marc Bertin:
Categorizations and Annotations of Citation in Research Evaluation. 456-461 - Ismaïl Biskri, Boucif Amar Bensaber:
The Categorial Annotation of Coordination in Arabic. 462-467 - Pierre Boudon:
Categorization of the <SEATS>: Examples of a Domain of Notions in the Lexical Field. 468-469 - Yi Cai, Ho-fung Leung, Ada Wai-Chee Fu:
Multi-Prototype Concept and Object Typicality in Ontology. 470-475 - Adam Joly, Ismaïl Biskri:
Combinators Introduction: An Algorithm. 476-481 - Christophe Jouis, Julien Bourdaillet:
Exceptions in Ontologies: When Topology Meets Typicality. 482-487 - Juyeon Kang, Jean-Pierre Desclés:
Categorial Grammars, Combinatory Logic and the Korean Language Processing. 488-493 - Florence Le Priol:
Automatic Annotation of Images, Pictures or Videos Comments for Text Mining Guided by No Textual Data. 494-499 - Mathias Niepert, Cameron Buckner, Colin Allen:
Answer Set Programming on Expert Feedback to Populate and Extend Dynamic Ontologies. 500-505 - Anca Pascu, Jean-Pierre Desclés:
Attribute-Value Formalization in the Framework of the Logic of Determination of Objects (LDO) and Categorization. 506-511 - Aurélie Rossi:
Applicative and Combinatory Categorial Grammar: Analysis of the French Interrogative Sentences. 512-517 - Charles Teissèdre, Brahim Djioua, Jean-Pierre Desclés:
Automatic Retrieval of Definitions in Texts, in Accordance with a General Linguistic Ontology. 518-523
Planning and Scheduling
- Roman Barták, Daniel Toropila:
Reformulating Constraint Models for Classical Planning. 525-530 - Lukás Chrpa, Roman Barták:
Towards Getting Domain Knowledge: Plans Analysis through Investigation of Actions Dependencies. 531-536 - Jilles Steeve Dibangoye, Brahim Chaib-draa, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib:
A Novel Prioritization Technique for Solving Markov Decision Processes. 537-542 - Raquel Fuentetaja, Daniel Borrajo, Carlos Linares López:
A New Approach to Heuristic Estimations for Cost-Based Planning. 543-548 - Anthony Gallagher, Stephen F. Smith:
Recovering from Inconsistency in Distributed Simple Temporal Networks. 549-554 - Philippe Laborie, Jerome Rogerie:
Reasoning with Conditional Time-Intervals. 555-560 - Pavel Surynek:
Tractable Class of a Problem of Goal Satisfaction in Mutual Exclusion Network. 561-566 - Yang Xiang, Wanling Zhang:
Distributed University Timetabling with Multiply Sectioned Constraint Networks. 567-571
Posters
- Pauline M. Berry, Blazej Bulka, Bart Peintner, Mark Roberts, Neil Yorke-Smith:
Neptune: A Mixed-Initiative Environment for Planning and Scheduling. 573-574 - Jan Kelbel, Zdenek Hanzálek:
Feeder Setup Optimization in SMT Assembly. 575-576 - Nathaniel Waisbrot, Ugur Kuter, Tolga Könik:
Combining Heuristic Search with Hierarchical Task-Network Planning: A Preliminary Report. 577-578
Spatio-Temporal Reasoning
- Mehul Bhatt:
Dynamical Spatial Systems - A Potential Approach for the Application of Qualitative Spatial Calculi. 580-585 - Jean-François Condotta, Souhila Kaci, Nicolas Schwind:
A Framework for Merging Qualitative Constraints Networks. 586-591 - Charles W. Fox:
ThomCat: A Bayesian Blackboard Model of Hierarchical Temporal Perception. 592-599 - Mashhood Ishaque, Faisal Mansoor, Abbas K. Zaidi:
An Inference Mechanism for Point-Interval Logic. 600-605 - Marco Ragni, Stefan Wölfl:
Reasoning about Topological and Positional Information in Dynamic Settings. 606-611
Uncertain Reasoning
- Salem Benferhat, Safa Yahi, Habiba Drias:
On the Compilation of Possibilistic Default Theories. 613-618 - Camille Besse, Brahim Chaib-draa:
Parallel Rollout for Online Solution of Dec-POMDPs. 619-624 - Chi-Kong Chan, Ho-fung Leung:
Stability of Coalitions in Belief-Based Non-Transferable Utility Games. 625-630 - Paulo Cesar G. da Costa, Marcelo Ladeira, Rommel N. Carvalho, Kathryn B. Laskey, Laécio L. Santos, Shou Matsumoto:
A First-Order Bayesian Tool for Probabilistic Ontologies. 631-636 - Love Ekenberg, Aron Larsson, Mats Danielson:
Second-Order Risk Constraints. 637-642 - Jens Fisseler:
Toward Markov Logic with Conditional Probabilities. 643-648 - Konstantinos Georgatos:
Belief Update Using Graphs. 649-564 - Miriam Martínez, Luis Enrique Sucar:
Learning Dynamic Naive Bayesian Classifiers. 655-659 - Miguel A. Palacios-Alonso, Carlos A. Brizuela, Luis Enrique Sucar:
Evolutionary Learning of Dynamic Naive Bayesian Classifiers. 660-665 - Frédéric Pichon, Thierry Denoeux:
A New Justification of the Unnormalized Dempster's Rule of Combination from the Least Commitment Principle. 666-671