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AAAI
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Automatic Assessment of OCR Quality in Historical Documents
Mass digitization of historical documents is a challenging problem for optical character recognition (OCR) tools. Issues include noisy backgrounds and faded text due to aging, bor...
Anshul Gupta, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Matthew Chr...
AAAI
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Value-Directed Compression of Large-Scale Assignment Problems
Data-driven analytics—in areas ranging from consumer marketing to public policy—often allow behavior prediction at the level of individuals rather than population segments, of...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
AAAI
2015
8 years 6 months ago
The Extendable-Triple Property: A New CSP Tractable Class beyond BTP
Tractable classes constitute an important issue in Artificial Intelligence to define new islands of tractability for reasoning or problem solving. In the area of constraint netw...
Philippe Jégou, Cyril Terrioux
AAAI
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Resilient Upgrade of Electrical Distribution Grids
Modern society is critically dependent on the services provided by engineered infrastructure networks. When natural disasters (e.g. Hurricane Sandy) occur, the ability of these ne...
Emre Yamangil, Russell Bent, Scott Backhaus
AAAI
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Projection in the Epistemic Situation Calculus with Belief Conditionals
A fundamental task in reasoning about action and change is projection, which refers to determining what holds after a number of actions have occurred. A powerful method for solvin...
Christoph Schwering, Gerhard Lakemeyer
AAAI
2015
8 years 6 months ago
High-Performance Distributed ML at Scale through Parameter Server Consistency Models
As Machine Learning (ML) applications embrace greater data size and model complexity, practitioners turn to distributed clusters to satisfy the increased computational and memory ...
Wei Dai, Abhimanu Kumar, Jinliang Wei, Qirong Ho, ...
AAAI
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Action Language BC+: Preliminary Report
Recently, action language BC, which combines the attractive features of action languages B and C+, was proposed. While BC allows Prolog-style recursive definitions that are not av...
Joseph Babb, Joohyung Lee
AAAI
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Learning to Mediate Perceptual Differences in Situated Human-Robot Dialogue
In human-robot dialogue, although a robot and its human partner are co-present in a shared environment, they have significantly mismatched perceptual capabilities (e.g., recogniz...
Changsong Liu, Joyce Yue Chai
AAAI
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Phrase Type Sensitive Tensor Indexing Model for Semantic Composition
Compositional semantic aims at constructing the meaning of phrases or sentences according to the compositionality of word meanings. In this paper, we propose to synchronously lear...
Yu Zhao, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
AAAI
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Modeling with Node Degree Preservation Can Accurately Find Communities
An important problem in analyzing complex networks is discovery of modular or community structures embedded in the networks. Although being promising for identifying network commu...
Di Jin, Zheng Chen, Dongxiao He, Weixiong Zhang