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FLAIRS
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Intentional Analysis of Medical Conversations for Community Engagement
With an explosion in the proliferation of user-generated content in communities, information overload is increasing and quality of readily available online content is deterioratin...
Saurav Sahay
FLAIRS
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Learning Opponent Strategies through First Order Induction
In a competitive game it is important to identify the opponent’s strategy as quickly and accurately as possible so that an effective response can be staged. In this vain, this p...
Katie Long Genter, Santiago Ontañón,...
FLAIRS
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Motivational Impacts of a Game-Based Intelligent Tutoring System
iSTART is an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) designed to improve students’ reading comprehension. Previous studies have indicated that iSTART is successful; however, these stu...
G. Tanner Jackson, Danielle S. McNamara
FLAIRS
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Given Bilingual Terminology in Statistical Machine Translation: MWE-Sensitve Word Alignment and Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process-
This paper considers a scenario when we are given almost perfect knowledge about bilingual terminology in terms of a test corpus in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). When the...
Tsuyoshi Okita, Andy Way
FLAIRS
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Evaluating Semantic Metrics on Tasks of Concept Similarity
This study presents an evaluation of WordNet-based semantic similarity and relatedness measures in tasks focused on concept similarity. Assuming similarity as distinct from relate...
Hansen Andrew Schwartz, Fernando Gomez
FLAIRS
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Simulating Human Ratings on Word Concreteness
Psychological measures of concreteness of words are generally estimated by having humans provide ratings of words on a concreteness scale. Due to the limits of this technique, con...
Shi Feng, Zhiqiang Cai, Scott A. Crossley, Daniell...
FLAIRS
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Internal Usability Testing of Automated Essay Feedback in an Intelligent Writing Tutor
Research on automated essay scoring (AES) indicates that computer-generated essay ratings are comparable to human ratings. However, despite investigations into the accuracy and re...
Rod Roscoe, Laura Varner, Zhiqiang Cai, Jennifer L...
FLAIRS
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Impact of Word Sense Disambiguation on Ordering Dictionary Definitions in Vocabulary Learning Tutors
Past research has shown that dictionaries and glosses can be beneficial in computer assisted language learning, particularly in vocabulary learning. We propose that L2 vocabulary ...
Kevin Dela Rosa, Maxine Eskenazi
FLAIRS
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Affective Text: Generation Strategies and Emotion Measurement Issues
In affective natural language generation (NLG) a major aim is to be able to influence the emotional effects evoked in the addressee through the intelligent use of language. While...
Ielka van der Sluis, Chris Mellish, Gavin Doherty
FLAIRS
2011
13 years 3 months ago
No Peanuts! Affective Cues for the Virtual Bartender
The aim of this paper is threefold: it explores methods for the detection of affective states in text, it presents the usage of such affective cues in a conversational system and ...
Marcin Skowron, Hannes Pirker, Stefan Rank, Georgi...