This paper describes Icarus, an agent architecture that embeds a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm within a language for specifying agent behavior. An Icarus program e...
We present an implemented machine learning system for the automatic detection of nonreferential it in spoken dialog. The system builds on shallow features extracted from dialog tr...
A fundamental part of a Computer Science degree is learning to program. Rather than starting students on a full commercial language, we favour using a dedicated "teaching lan...
We present a statistical generative model for unsupervised learning of verb argument structures. The model was used to automatically induce the argument structures for the 1,500 mo...
Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Daniel Marcu, Ma...
Peer assessment is a technique that has been successfully employed in a variety of academic disciplines, and which is considered to be effective in developing student’s higher c...