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AAAI
2007
15 years 6 months ago
A Text-to-Picture Synthesis System for Augmenting Communication
We present a novel Text-to-Picture system that synthesizes a picture from general, unrestricted natural language text. The process is analogous to Text-to-Speech synthesis, but wi...
Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew B. Goldberg, Mohamed Eldawy, C...
AAAI
2008
15 years 6 months ago
Hierarchical Location and Topic Based Query Expansion
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to expand queries by exploring both location information and topic information of the queries. Users at different locations tend to have...
Shu Huang, Qiankun Zhao, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee G...
ICIA
2007
15 years 6 months ago
A Decision-Theoretic Model of Assistance - Evaluation, Extensions and Open Problems
There is a growing interest in intelligent assistants for a variety of applications from organizing tasks for knowledge workers to helping people with dementia. In our earlier wor...
Sriraam Natarajan, Kshitij Judah, Prasad Tadepalli...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
An approach to online optimization of heuristic coordination algorithms
Due to computational intractability, large scale coordination algorithms are necessarily heuristic and hence require tuning for particular environments. In domains where character...
Jumpol Polvichai, Paul Scerri, Michael Lewis
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
So tell me what happened: turning agent-based interactive drama into comics
As virtual characters become more autonomous, their use in interactive drama is growing. By creating interesting and well authored personalities, these characters are able to inte...
Tiago Alves, Ana Simões, Rui Figueiredo, Ma...