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IJCAI
2007
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The Value of Observation for Monitoring Dynamic Systems
We consider the fundamental problem of monitoring (i.e. tracking) the belief state in a dynamic system, when the model is only approximately correct and when the initial belief st...
Eyal Even-Dar, Sham M. Kakade, Yishay Mansour
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Optimal Soft Arc Consistency
The Valued (VCSP) framework is a generic optimization framework with a wide range of applications. Soft arc consistency operations transform a VCSP into an equivalent problem by s...
Martin C. Cooper, Simon de Givry, Thomas Schiex
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Predictive Approach to Help-Desk Response Generation
We are developing a corpus-based approach for the prediction of help-desk responses from features in customers’ emails, where responses are represented at two levels of granular...
Yuval Marom, Ingrid Zukerman
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Author Coreference by Resource-Bounded Information Gathering from the Web
Accurate entity resolution is sometimes impossible simply due to insufficient information. For example, in research paper author name resolution, even clever use of venue, title ...
Pallika Kanani, Andrew McCallum, Chris Pal
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Explanation-Based Feature Construction
Choosing good features to represent objects can be crucial to the success of supervised machine learning algorithms. Good high-level features are those that concentrate informatio...
Shiau Hong Lim, Li-Lun Wang, Gerald DeJong
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Tractable Temporal Reasoning
Temporal reasoning is widely used within both Computer Science and A.I. However, the underlying complexity of temporal proof in discrete temporal logics has led to the use of simp...
Clare Dixon, Michael Fisher, Boris Konev
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Mediating between Qualitative and Quantitative Representations for Task-Orientated Human-Robot Interaction
In human-robot interaction (HRI) it is essential that the robot interprets and reacts to a human’s utterances in a manner that reflects their intended meaning. In this paper we...
Michael Brenner, Nick Hawes, John D. Kelleher, Jer...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Logical Framework for Modularity of Ontologies
Modularity is a key requirement for collaborative ontology engineering and for distributed ontology reuse on the Web. Modern ontology languages, such as OWL, are logic-based, and ...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Yevgeny Kazako...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Fast Image Alignment Using Anytime Algorithms
Image alignment refers to finding the best transformation from a fixed reference image to a new image of a scene. This process is often guided by similarity measures between ima...
Rupert Brooks, Tal Arbel, Doina Precup