One of the most important problems for an intelligent tutoring system is deciding how to respond when a student asks for help. Responding cooperatively requires an understanding o...
Mixed-initiativesystemspresent the challengeof finding an effective level of interaction betweenhumans and computers. Machinelearning presents a promising approachto this problemi...
The typical difficulty of various NP-hard problems varies with simple parameters describing their structure. This behavior is largely independent of the search algorithm, but depe...
Cross-document coreference occurs when the same person, place, event, or concept is discussed in more than one text source. Computer recognition of this phenomenon is important be...
In this paper we present results on developing robust natural language interfaces by combining shallowand partialinterpretationwith dialoguemanagement. The key issue is to reduce ...