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AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
The More the Merrier: Multi-Party Negotiation with Virtual Humans
The goal of the Virtual Humans Project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies is to enrich virtual training environments with virtual hum...
Patrick G. Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, ...
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
A Robot That Uses Existing Vocabulary to Infer Non-Visual Word Meanings from Observation
The authors present TWIG, a visually grounded wordlearning system that uses its existing knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, and action schemas to help it learn the meanings of new ...
Kevin Gold, Brian Scassellati
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
A Corpus-Based Hybrid Approach to Music Analysis and Composition
Bill Z. Manaris, Patrick Roos, Penousal Machado, D...
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Combining Multiple Heuristics Online
We present black-box techniques for learning how to interleave the execution of multiple heuristics in order to improve average-case performance. In our model, a user is given a s...
Matthew J. Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Stephen F. Sm...
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
AURA: Enabling Subject Matter Experts to Construct Declarative Knowledge Bases from Science Textbooks
The long-term goal of Project Halo is to build an application called Digital Aristotle that can answer questions on a variety of science topics and provide user and domain appropr...
Ken Barker, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Shaw Yi Chaw, Peter...
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Knowledge-Driven Learning and Discovery
The goal of our current research is machine learning with the help and guidance of a knowledge base (KB). Rather than learning numerical models, our approach generates explicit sy...
Benjamin Lambert, Scott E. Fahlman
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Isometric Projection
Recently the problem of dimensionality reduction has received a lot of interests in many fields of information processing. We consider the case where data is sampled from a low d...
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Jiawei Han
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Enabling Domain-Awareness for a Generic Natural Language Interface
In this paper, we present a learning-based approach for enabling domain-awareness for a generic natural language interface. Our approach automatically acquires domain knowledge fr...
Yunyao Li, Ishan Chaudhuri, Huahai Yang, Satinder ...