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AIED
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Workflow-Based Assessment of Student Online Activities with Topic and Dialogue Role Classification
The Pedagogical Assessment Workflow System (PAWS) is a new workflow-based pedagogical assessment framework that enables the efficient and robust integration of diverse datasets for...
Jun Ma, Jeon-Hyung Kang, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Decentralized MDPs with sparse interactions
In this work, we explore how local interactions can simplify the process of decision-making in multiagent systems, particularly in multirobot problems. We review a recent decision-...
Francisco S. Melo, Manuela M. Veloso
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Using a Heterogeneous Dataset for Emotion Analysis in Text
In this paper, we adopt a supervised machine learning approach to recognize six basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise) using a heterogeneous emotion...
Soumaya Chaffar, Diana Inkpen
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Subspace Mapping of Noisy Text Documents
Abstract. Subspace mapping methods aim at projecting high-dimensional data into a subspace where a specific objective function is optimized. Such dimension reduction allows the re...
Axel J. Soto, Marc Strickert, Gustavo E. Vazquez, ...
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Comparing Humans and Automatic Speech Recognition Systems in Recognizing Dysarthric Speech
Abstract. Speech is a complex process that requires control and coordination of articulation, breathing, voicing, and prosody. Dysarthria is a manifestation of an inability to cont...
Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu, Frank Rudzicz
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Exploiting Conversational Features to Detect High-Quality Blog Comments
Abstract. In this work, we present a method for classifying the quality of blog comments using Linear-Chain Conditional Random Fields (CRFs). This approach is found to yield high a...
Nicholas FitzGerald, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Mu...
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Learning Dialogue POMDP Models from Data
In this paper, we learn the components of dialogue POMDP models from data. In particular, we learn the states, observations, as well as transition and observation functions based o...
Hamid R. Chinaei, Brahim Chaib-draa
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Parallelizing a Convergent Approximate Inference Method
Probabilistic inference in graphical models is a prevalent task in statistics and artificial intelligence. The ability to perform this inference task efficiently is critical in l...
Ming Su, Elizabeth Thompson
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Finding Small Backdoors in SAT Instances
Although propositional satisfiability (SAT) is NP-complete, state-of-the-art SAT solvers are able to solve large, practical instances. The concept of backdoors has been introduced...
Zijie Li, Peter van Beek
AHSWN
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Directed Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks: Concept and Quality
In this paper, we introduce a new type of coverage for wireless sensor networks, called Directed Coverage (DCoverage). Basically, D-Coverage is the coverage provided by a sensor n...
Changqing Xu, Xiaole Bai, Lei Ding, Jin Teng, Srir...