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FLAIRS
2006
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Cohesion and Learning in a Tutorial Spoken Dialog System
Two measures of lexical cohesion were developed and applied to a corpus of human-computer tutoring dialogs. For both measures, the amount of cohesion in the tutoring dialog was fo...
Arthur Ward, Diane J. Litman
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Intelligent Browsing Assistance for Corporate Knowledge Portals
The management of knowledge, i.e. knowing what is known and the ability to exploit it is a burning issue for most organizations. Though knowledge management has a strong social pe...
Markus Zanker, Sergiu Gordea, Marius-Calin Silaghi
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
CATS: A Synchronous Approach to Collaborative Group Recommendation
Group recommender systems introduce a whole set of new challenges for recommender systems research. The notion of generating a set of recommendations that will satisfy a group of ...
Kevin McCarthy, Maria Salamó, Lorcan Coyle,...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Model Construction Algorithms for Object-Oriented Probabilistic Relational Models
This paper presents three new algorithms for the automatic construction of models from Object Oriented Probabilistic RelationalModels. The first two algorithms are based on the kn...
Catherine Howard, Markus Stumptner
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Celerina - A Generative Music System Using Aesthetical Reduction Applied to Simple Cellular Automata
Celerina is the software core of a realtime system for dynamic music generation. Several one-dimensional binary cellular automata generate melodic patterns that are subsequently r...
John Flury, Daniel Bisig
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluating WordNet Features in Text Classification Models
Incorporating semantic features from the WordNet lexical database is among one of the many approaches that have been tried to improve the predictive performance of text classifica...
Trevor N. Mansuy, Robert J. Hilderman
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Deverbal Nouns in Knowledge Representation
Deverbal nouns pose serious challenges for knowledgerepresentation systems. We present a method of canonicalizing deverbal noun representations, relying on a rich lexicon of verb ...
Olga Gurevich, Richard S. Crouch, Tracy H. King, V...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
An Artificial Neural Network for a Tank Targeting System
In this paper, we apply artificial neural networks to control the targeting system of a robotic tank in a tank-combat computer game (RoboCode). We suggest an algorithm that not on...
Hans W. Guesgen, Xiao Dong Shi
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Evolving Keys for Periodic Polyalphabetic Ciphers
A genetic algorithm is used to find the keys of Type II periodic polyalphabetic ciphers with mixed primary alphabets. Because of the difficulty of the ciphertext only cryptanalysi...
Ralph Morelli, Ralph Walde