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AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Reinforcement Learning in Complex Environments Through Multiple Adaptive Partitions
The application of Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms to learn tasks for robots is often limited by the large dimension of the state space, which may make prohibitive its appli...
Andrea Bonarini, Alessandro Lazaric, Marcello Rest...
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
'O Francesca, ma che sei grulla?' Emotions and Irony in Persuasion Dialogues
In this paper we investigated the interaction between emotional and non-emotional aspects of persuasion dialogues, from the viewpoint of both the system (the Persuader), when reaso...
Irene Mazzotta, Nicole Novielli, Vincenzo Silvestr...
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Instance-Based Query Answering with Semantic Knowledge Bases
A procedure founded in instance-based learning is presented, for performing a form of analogical reasoning on knowledge bases expressed in a wide range of ontology languages. The p...
Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato, Floriana Esposito
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
English Querying over Ontologies: E-QuOnto
Relational database (DB) management systems provide the standard means for structuring and querying large amounts of data. However, to access such data the exact structure of the D...
Raffaella Bernardi, Francesca Bonin, Diego Calvane...
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Tree Kernel-Based Shallow Semantic Parser for Thematic Role Extraction
We present a simple, two-steps supervised strategy for the identification and classification of thematic roles in natural language texts. We employ no external source of informat...
Daniele Pighin, Alessandro Moschitti
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Ranking and Reputation Systems in the QBF Competition
Abstract. Systems competitions play a fundamental role in the advancement of the state of the art in several automated reasoning fields. The goal of such events is to answer the q...
Massimo Narizzano, Luca Pulina, Armando Tacchella
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Building Quality-Based Views of the Web
Due to the fast growing of the information available on the Web, the retrieval of relevant content is increasingly hard. The complexity of the task is concerned both with the seman...
Enrico Triolo, Nicola Polettini, Diego Sona, Paolo...
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Robust Color-Based Skin Detection for an Interactive Robot
Detection of human skin in an arbitrary image is generally hard. Most color-based skin detection algorithms are based on a static color model of the skin. However, a static model c...
Alvise Lastra, Alberto Pretto, Stefano Tonello, Em...
AIIA
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Music Expression Understanding Based on a Joint Semantic Space
A paradigm for music expression understanding based on a joint semantic space, described by both affective and sensorial adjectives, is presented. Machine learning techniques were...
Luca Mion, Giovanni De Poli