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IJCAI
2007
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Locating Complex Named Entities in Web Text
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of locating and classifying names in text. In previous work, NER was limited to a small number of predefined entity classes (e.g., peop...
Doug Downey, Matthew Broadhead, Oren Etzioni
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Fast Incremental Square Root Information Smoothing
We propose a novel approach to the problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) based on incremental smoothing, that is suitable for real-time applications in large-sca...
Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, Frank Dellaert
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Combining Learning and Word Sense Disambiguation for Intelligent User Profiling
Giovanni Semeraro, Marco Degemmis, Pasquale Lops, ...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Domain Independent Approaches for Finding Diverse Plans
In many planning situations, a planner is required to return a diverse set of plans satisfying the same goals which will be used by the external systems collectively. We take a do...
Biplav Srivastava, Tuan A. Nguyen, Alfonso Gerevin...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Ensembles of Partially Trained SVMs with Multiplicative Updates
The training of support vector machines (SVM) involves a quadratic programming problem, which is often optimized by a complicated numerical solver. In this paper, we propose a muc...
Ivor W. Tsang, James T. Kwok
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Average-Reward Decentralized Markov Decision Processes
Formal analysis of decentralized decision making has become a thriving research area in recent years, producing a number of multi-agent extensions of Markov decision processes. Wh...
Marek Petrik, Shlomo Zilberstein
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Semantic Smoothing of Document Models for Agglomerative Clustering
In this paper, we argue that the agglomerative clustering with vector cosine similarity measure performs poorly due to two reasons. First, the nearest neighbors of a document belo...
Xiaohua Zhou, Xiaodan Zhang, Xiaohua Hu
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A General Framework for Scheduling in a Stochastic Environment
There are many systems and techniques that address stochastic scheduling problems, based on distinct and sometimes opposite approaches, especially in terms of how scheduling and s...
Julien Bidot, Thierry Vidal, Philippe Laborie, J. ...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Surprise as Shortcut for Anticipation: Clustering Mental States in Reasoning
To enhance effectiveness in real world applications, autonomous agents have to develop cognitive competencies and anticipatory capabilities. Here we point out their strong liaison...
Michele Piunti, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falc...