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FLAIRS
2004
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Use of Default Reasoning for Disambiguation Under Question Answering
We develop the default logic for pragmatic analysis of natural language queries. Ambiguous sentences are considered so that each set of meanings is assigned an extension of defaul...
Boris Galitsky
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
VENUS: A System for Novelty Detection in Video Streams with Learning
Novelty detection in video is a rapidly developing application domain within computer vision. The motivation behind this paper is a learning based framework for detecting novelty ...
Roger S. Gaborski, Vishal S. Vaingankar, Vineet Ch...
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Natural Language Generation and Discourse Context: Computing Distractor Sets from the Focus Stack
In human-human conversation, people use linguistic expressions that are flexibly tailored to context as a matter of course, and they expect their conversational partners to do lik...
David DeVault, Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Typicality, Contextual Inferences and Object Determination Logic
We propose a rigorous definition of the notion of typicality, making use of the strict partial order naturally induced among the objects at hand by a given concept. This perspecti...
Michael Freund, Jean-Pierre Desclés, Anca P...
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Functional and Behavioral Knowledge-based Implementation for Intelligent Sensors/Actuators
As the complexity of industrial processes increases, it requires the use of intelligent sensors or actuators (known as Intelligent Instruments) to allow for more comprehensive and...
Richard Dapoigny, Patrick Barlatier, Laurent Foull...
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Recurrent Neural Networks and Pitch Representations for Music Tasks
We present results from experiments in using several pitch representations for jazz-oriented musical tasks performed by a recurrent neural network. We have run experiments with se...
Judy A. Franklin
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Decision Tree Extraction from Trained Neural Networks
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have proved both a popular and powerful technique for pattern recognition tasks in a number of problem domains. However, the adoption of ANNs in ...
Darren Dancey, David McLean, Zuhair Bandar
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Inducing Fuzzy Decision Trees in Non-Deterministic Domains using CHAID
Most decision tree induction methods used for extracting knowledge in classification problems are unable to deal with uncertainties embedded within the data, associated with human...
Jay Fowdar, Zuhair Bandar, Keeley A. Crockett
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Theory for Convex Interval Relations including Unbounded Intervals
We extend the basic axiomatization of interval convex relations by Allen and Hayes with unbounded intervals. Unbounded intervals include since intervals with a finite beginning po...
Diana Cukierman, James P. Delgrande
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Creation of Contextual Knowledge in Simulated Agents
Modeling human behavior can be complicated and expensive. To be able to reduce costs, new methodologies and tools must be developed that automate the creation of human behavior mo...
Hans Fernlund, Avelino J. Gonzalez