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AAAI
2007
13 years 12 months ago
Comprehending and Generating Apt Metaphors: A Web-driven, Case-based Approach to Figurative Language
Examples of figurative language can range from the explicit and the obvious to the implicit and downright enigmatic. Some simpler forms, like simile, often wear their meanings on...
Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao
AAAI
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Efficient Algorithms to Solve Bayesian Stackelberg Games for Security Applications
In a class of games known as Stackelberg games, one agent (the leader) must commit to a strategy that can be observed by the other agent (the adversary/follower) before the advers...
Praveen Paruchuri, Jonathan P. Pearce, Janusz Mare...
AAAI
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Reasoning with Cardinal Directions: An Efficient Algorithm
Direction relations between extended spatial objects are important commonsense knowledge. Recently, Goyal and Egenhofer proposed a formal model, called Cardinal Direction Calculus...
Xiaotong Zhang, Weiming Liu, Sanjiang Li, Mingshen...
AAAI
2007
13 years 12 months ago
Answering Regular Path Queries in Expressive Description Logics: An Automata-Theoretic Approach
Expressive Description Logics (DLs) have been advocated as formalisms for modeling the domain of interest in various application areas. An important requirement is the ability to ...
Diego Calvanese, Thomas Eiter, Magdalena Ortiz
AAAI
2007
13 years 12 months ago
Strongly Decomposable Voting Rules on Multiattribute Domains
Sequential composition of voting rules, by making use of structural properties of the voters’ preferences, provide computationally economical ways for making a common decision o...
Lirong Xia, Jérôme Lang, Mingsheng Yi...
AAAI
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Predicting the Performance of IDA* with Conditional Distributions
Uzi Zahavi, Ariel Felner, Neil Burch, Robert C. Ho...
AAAI
2008
13 years 12 months ago
On-line Recognition of Surgical Activity for Monitoring in the Operating Room
Nicolas Padoy, Tobias Blum, Hubertus Feussner, Mar...
AAAI
2007
13 years 12 months ago
Action-Space Partitioning for Planning
For autonomous artificial decision-makers to solve realistic tasks, they need to deal with searching through large state and action spaces under time pressure. We study the probl...
Natalia Hernandez-Gardiol, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
AAAI
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Semi-Supervised Ensemble Ranking
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin
AAAI
2007
13 years 12 months ago
Ungreedy Methods for Chinese Deterministic Dependency Parsing
Deterministic dependency parsing has often been regarded as an efficient parsing algorithm while its parsing accuracy is a little lower than the best results reported by more comp...
Xiangyu Duan, Jun Zhao, Bo Xu