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FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Introducing GEMS - A Novel Technique for Ensemble Creation
The main contribution of this paper is to suggest a novel technique for automatic creation of accurate ensembles. The technique proposed, named GEMS, first trains a large number o...
Ulf Johansson, Tuve Löfström, Rikard K&o...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Stress Recognition Using Non-invasive Technology
The need to provide computers with the ability to estimate the affective state of their users is a major requirement for the practical implementation of Affective Computing concep...
Jing Zhai, Armando Barreto
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Agile Sensor Networks: Adaptive Coverage via Mobile Nodes
Advances in sensing and communication technology make sensor networks a convenient and cost effective tool for collecting data in hard to reach and hazardous areas Increasingly, s...
Swapna Ghanekar, Fatma Mili, Imad Elhajj
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Automated Population of Cyc: Extracting Information about Named-entities from the Web
Populating the Cyc Knowledge Base (KB) has been a manual process until very recently. However, there is currently enough knowledge in Cyc for it to be feasible to attempt to acqui...
Purvesh Shah, David Schneider, Cynthia Matuszek, R...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Referring-Expression Generation Using a Transformation-Based Learning Approach
A natural language generation system must generate expressions that allow a reader to identify the entities to which they refer. This paper describes the creation of referring-exp...
Jill Nickerson, Stuart M. Shieber, Barbara J. Gros...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
A Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Bayesian Classifier
In this paper, we introduce a new restricted Bayesian network classifier that extends naive Bayes by relaxing the conditional independence assumptions, and show that it is partly ...
Changsung Kang, Jin Tian
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Developing an Authoring System for Cognitive Models within Commercial-Quality ITSs
Producing Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) is a labor-intensive process, requiring many different skill sets. A major component of an ITS, the cognitive model, has historically...
Stephen Blessing, Stephen B. Gilbert, Steven Ritte...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Constructing a Corpus-based Ontology Using Model Bias
Recent work in lexical resource construction has recognized the importance of contextualizing the knowledge in existing resources and ontologies with information derived from text...
Anna Rumshisky, Patrick Hanks, Catherine Havasi, J...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
A Case-Based Approach to Explore Validation Experience
The success of TURING Test technologies for system validation depends on the quality of the human expertise behind the system. As an additional source of human experts' valid...
Rainer Knauf, Setsuo Tsuruta