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FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Analysis of Galactic Spectra using Noise-Aware Learning Algorithms
We introduce a novel learning algorithm for noise elimination. Our algorithm is based on the re-measurement idea for the correction of erroneous observations and is able to discri...
H. Jair Escalante, Olac Fuentes
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
3D Facial Expression Recognition for the Enhancement of Human-Computer Interaction
Automatic facial expression recognition has gained much attention during the last decade because of its potential application in areas such as more engaging humancomputer interfac...
Chao Li, Armando Barreto
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Comparing Synthesized versus Pre-Recorded Tutor Speech in an Intelligent Tutoring Spoken Dialogue System
We evaluate the impact of tutor voice quality in the context of our intelligent tutoring spoken dialogue system. We first describe two versions of our system which yielded two cor...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman, Scott Sil...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Analyzing Writing Styles with Coh-Metrix
Computer scientists, linguists, stylometricians, and cognitive scientists have successfully divided corpora into modes, domains, genres, registers, and authors. The limitations fo...
Philip M. McCarthy, Gwyneth A. Lewis, David F. Duf...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Representation and Reasoning for Deeper Natural Language Understanding in a Physics Tutoring System
Students' natural language (NL) explanations in the domain of qualitative mechanics lie in-between unrestricted NL and the constrained NL of "proper" domain stateme...
Maxim Makatchev, Kurt VanLehn, Pamela W. Jordan, U...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Contextual Graphs for a Real-World Decision Support System
Decision support systems that capture, preserve, and reuse implicit knowledge can greatly benefit from explicitly using context. The development of this type of system can benefit...
Johann V. Nguyen, Brian C. Becker, Avelino J. Gonz...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
An Empirical Exploration of Hidden Markov Models: From Spelling Recognition to Speech Recognition
Hidden Markov models play a critical role in the modelling and problem solving of important AI tasks such as speech recognition and natural language processing. However, the stude...
Shieu-Hong Lin
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Managing Student Emotions in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
1 In the classic educational context, observing and identifying learner's emotional response allow the teacher to adapt the lesson, with the aim of improving the quality of th...
Roger Nkambou
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Cognitive Simulation in Virtual Patients
We present an overview of the Virtual Patient project at the University of Maryland, which is developing a cognitive model of humans experiencing various states of health and dise...
Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale,...