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Home / Proceedings / Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2016) /

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General Conference

  • Authorship Attribution Using Small Sets of Frequent Part-of-Speech Skip-grams

    Yao Jean Marc Pokou, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Chadia Moghrabi

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  • Iterated Abduction

    Joshua Eckroth

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  • Semi-Unsupervised Clustering Using Reinforcement Learning

    Sourabh Bose, Manfred Huber

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  • Smarter Sharing Is Caring: Weighted Averaging in Decentralized Collective Transport with Obstacle Avoidance

    Vera A. Kazakova, Annie S. Wu

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  • Discovering Spatio-Temporal Relationships Among Activities in Videos Using a Relational Topic-Transition Model

    Dalwinderjeet Kular, Eraldo Ribeiro

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  • DOVETAIL — An Abstraction for Classical Planning Using a Visual Metaphor

    Mauricio Cecilio Magnaguagno, Ramon Fraga Pereira, Felipe Meneguzzi

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  • Studying Watson Inside Out — A Cognitive Systems Course

    Michael Wollowski

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  • ART: An Availability-Aware Active Learning Framework for Data Streams

    Benjamin Shickel, Parisa Rashidi

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  • CATCH: Injecting “Contextual and Timely Conversational Humor” into Lifelike Avatars

    Josiah Wong, Avelino J. Gonzalez

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  • Towards a Computational Model of Human Opinion Dynamics in Response to Real-World Events

    Kallirroi Georgila, David V. Pynadath

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  • Scalable Image Retrieval with Multimodal Fusion

    Yang Peng, Xiaofeng Zhou, Daisy Zhe Wang, Chunsheng Victor Fang

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  • Pollen Recognition Using Multi-Layer Feature Decomposition

    Amar Daood, Eraldo Ribeiro, Mark Bush

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  • Creating a New Angry Birds Competition Track

    Rohan Verma, Xiaoyu Ge, Jochen Renz

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  • Domain Modeling for Planning as Logic Programming

    Roman Bartak, Jindrich Vodrazka

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  • Ranking Summaries for Informativeness and Coherence without Reference Summaries

    Abhishek Singh, Wei Jin

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  • Artificial Intelligence Testing

    Eric Michael Neufeld, Sonje Finnestad

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  • A Scalable Unsupervised Deep Multimodal Learning System

    Mohammed Shameer Iqbal, Daniel L. Silver

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  • Creation of a Student Research Environment in Artificial Intelligence with Industrial Involvement

    Sambit Bhattacharya, Bogdan Czejdo, John Martellaro, Aisha Bowe, Kajal Pancholi, Sue Hall

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  • On Modeling the Interplay Between Opinion Change and Formation

    Fei Yu, Eugene Santos

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  • Manipulation of Second-Order Copeland Elections: Heuristic and Experiment

    Ramoni O. Lasisi

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  • Towards Real Time Detection of Learners’ Need of Help in Serious Games

    Ramla Ghali, Claude Frasson, Sébastien Ouellet

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  • Building User Interest Profiles Using DBpedia in a Question Answering System

    Jonathan Bergeron, Aron Schmidt, Richard Khoury, Luc Lamontagne

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  • Coordinated Target Assignment and Route Planning for Air Team Mission Planning

    Tina Erlandsson

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  • Bayesian Network-Based Extension for PGP — Estimating Petition Support

    Marius Silaghi, Song Qin, Toshihiro Matsui, Makoto Yokoo

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  • Leveraging Dependency Regularization for Event Extraction

    Kai Cao, Xiang Li, Ralph Grishman

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  • Hash Functions for Episodic Recognition and Retrieval

    Emilia Vanderwerf, Robert Stiles, Alexandra Warlen, Allison Seibert, Kevin Bastien, Andrew Meyer, Andrew M. Nuxoll, Scott Wallace

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  • Neighbourhood SAC for Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Non-Binary Constraints

    Richard J. Wallace

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  • Hoping for the Truth — A Survey of the TPTP Logics

    Geoff Sutcliffe, Francis Jeffry Pelletier

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  • Toward Designing a Realistic Conversational System: A Survey

    Awrad Mohammed Ali, Avelino J. Gonzalez

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Special Track: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry

  • Comparative Methods and Analysis for Creating High-Quality Question Sets from Crowdsourced Data

    Sarah K. K. Luger, Jeff Bowles

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  • A Dynamic Bayesian Network for Diagnosing Nuclear Power Plant Accidents

    Thomas B. Jones, Michael C. Darling, Katrina M. Groth, Matthew R. Denman, George F. Luger

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  • Using L-Systems to Generate Fault Trees for Benchmarking and Testing

    Jeff Hanes, R. Paul Wiegand

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  • Assessing Supply Chain Robustness Through Stress Testing

    Slava Shekh, Luke Marsh

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  • Prioritization of Risky Chats for Intent Classifier Improvement

    Ian Beaver, Cynthia Freeman

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Special Track: Applied Natural Language Processing

  • Event Nugget Detection and Argument Extraction with DISCERN

    Greg Dubbin, Archna Bhatia, Bonnie J. Dorr, Adam Dalton, Kristy Hollingshead, Ian Perera, Suriya Kandaswamy, Jena D. Hwang

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  • Identifying Thesis Statements in Student Essays: The Class Imbalance Challenge and Resolution

    Fattaneh Jabbari, Mohammad H. Falakmasir, Kevin D. Ashley

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  • Structural Sentence Similarity Estimation for Short Texts

    Weicheng Ma, Torsten Suel

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  • Maximizing Appropriate Responses Returned by a Conversational Agent through the Use of a Genetic Algorithm for Feature Selection

    Jerome McClendon, Larry Hodges, Sekou Remy

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  • Supervised Speech Act Classification of Messages in German Online Discussions

    Berken Bayat, Christopher Krauss, Agathe Merceron, Stefan Arbanowski

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  • Automatic Classification of Poetry by Meter and Rhyme

    Chris Tanasescu, Bryan Paget, Diana Inkpen

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  • Towards Detecting Intra- and Inter-Sentential Negation Scope and Focus in Dialogue

    Rajendra Banjade, Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus

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  • Semisupervised Text Classification Using Unsupervised Topic Information

    Rubén Dorado, Sylvie Ratté

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  • Handling Missing Words by Mapping Across Word Vector Representations

    Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Dipesh Gautam, Vasile Rus

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  • Determining the Quality of a Student Reflective Response

    Wencan Luo, Diane Litman

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  • Vector Based Techniques for Short Answer Grading

    Ahmed Ezzat Magooda, Mohamed Zahran, Mohsen Rashwan, Hazem Raafat, Magda Fayek

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Special Track: Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security

  • Evaluating Methods for Distinguishing Between Human-Readable Text and Garbled Text

    Jette L. Henderson, Daniel J. Frazee, Nick P. Siegel, Cheryl E. Martin, Alexander Y. Liu

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  • Meaning-Based Machine Learning for Information Assurance

    Courtney Falk, Lauren Stuart

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  • Suspiciously Structured Entropy: Wavelet Decomposition of Software Entropy Reveals Symptoms of Malware in the Energy Spectrum

    Michael Wojnowicz, Glenn Chisholm, Matt Wolff

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  • Security Risk Aggregation Based on Neural Networks — An Empirically Validated Approach

    Alexander Beck, Stefan Rass

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  • RUDY Attack: Detection at the Network Level and Its Important Features

    Maryam M. Najafabadi, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Amri Napolitano, Charles Wheelus

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  • Data Authenticity and Integrity in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on a Watermarking Approach

    Farid Lalem, Muath Alshaikh, Ahcene Bounceur, Reinhardt Euler, Lamri Laouamer, Laurent Nana, Anca Pascu

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  • An Evolutionary Trace Algorithm for Constructing Malware Lineages

    Alex Heinricher, Steven Jilcott

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Special Track: Artificial Intelligence for Big Data

  • Term Ranker: A Graph-Based Re-Ranking Approach

    Muhammad Tahir Khan, Yukun Ma, Jung-jae Kim

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  • Reducing Feature Set Explosion to Facilitate Real-World Review Spam Detection

    Michael Crawford, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Joseph D. Prusa

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  • Enhancing Ensemble Learners with Data Sampling on High-Dimensional Imbalanced Tweet Sentiment Data

    Joseph D. Prusa, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Naeem Seliya

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  • Sentiment Classification Using Negation as a Proxy for Negative Sentiment

    Bruno Ohana, Brendan Tierney, Sarah Jane Delany

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  • GECKA3D: A 3D Game Engine for Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition

    Erik Cambria, Tam V. Nguyen, Brian Cheng, Kenneth Kwok, Jose Sepulveda

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Special Track: Artificial Intelligence in Games, Serious Games, and Multimedia

  • Go-Ahead: Improving Prior Knowledge Heuristics by Using Information Retrieved From Play Out Simulations.

    Gabriel Machado Santos, Rita Maria Silva Julia

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  • Neural Networks Learning the Concept of Influence in Go

    Gabriel Machado Santos, Rita Maria Silva Julia, Marco Saito, Matheus Araujo Aguiar

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  • Supporting Social Skills Rehabilitation with Virtual Storytelling

    Cindy Even, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, João Ferreira, Cédric Buche, Florian Stéphan, Marc Cavazza, Christine Lisetti

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  • The Believability Gene in Virtual Bots

    Mihai Polceanu, Antonio M. Mora, Jose L. Jimenez, Cedric Buche, Antonio J. Fernandez-Leiva

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  • Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Tetris

    Diana Lora, Antonio A. Sánchez-Ruiz, Pedro A. González-Calero, Marco A. Gómez-Martín

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Special Track: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Informatics

  • A Dempster-Shafer Approach for Corrupted Electrocardiograms Signals

    Nicholas J. Napoli, Laura E. Barnes

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  • Examining Healthcare Utilization Patterns of Elderly and Middle-Aged Adults in the United States

    Cilia E. Zayas, Zhe He, Jiawei Yuan, Mildred Maldonado-Molina, William Hogan, François Modave, Yi Guo, Jiang Bian

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Special Track: Autonomous Robots and Agents

  • Building Redundancy in Multi-Agent Systems Using Probabilistic Selection

    Annie S. Wu, R. Paul Wiegand, Ramya Pradhan

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  • Controlling the Movement of Robotic Bodyguards for Maximal Physical Protection

    Taranjeet Singh Bhatia, Gurkan Solmaz, Damla Turgut, Ladislau Boloni

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  • Reward from Demonstration in Interactive Reinforcement Learning

    Syed Ali Raza, Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams

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  • Selecting Vantage Points for an Autonomous Quadcopter Videographer

    Rey Coaguila, Gita Reese Sukthankar, Rahul Sukthankar

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  • Trajectory Adaptation of Robot Arms for Head-Pose Dependent Assistive Tasks

    Rouhollah Rahmatizadeh, Pooya Abolghasemi, Ladislau Bölöni, Amirhossein Jabalameli, Aman Behal

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  • Feasibility Study of Multi-Agent Simulation at the Cellular Level with FLAME GPU

    Alcione de Paiva Oliveira, Paul Richmond

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  • Multi-Agent Area Coverage Control Using Reinforcement Learning

    Adekunle A. Adepegba, Suruz Miah, Davide Spinello

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  • Learning Continuous State/Action Models for Humanoid Robots

    Astrid Jackson, Gita Sukthankar

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  • Multiagent-Based Simulation of the Human Immune System: A Study of the Immune Response and Antimicrobial Therapy in Post-streptococcal Glomerulonephritis

    Carlos Antonio Bastos, Alcione de Paiva Oliveira, Fabio Ribeiro Cerqueira, Maurilio de Araujo Possi, Rodrigo Siqueira-Batista, Andreia Patricia Gomes, Luiz Alberto Santana

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Special Track: Case-Based Reasoning

  • Evaluation of Explanations Extracted from Textual Reports

    Gleb Sizov, Pinar Ӧztürk, Kerstin Bach

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  • Retrieving Adaptable Cases in Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning

    Ralph Bergmann, Gilbert Müller, Christian Zeyen, Jens Manderscheid

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Special Track: Data Mining

  • Adaptive Sampling and Learning for Unsupervised Outlier Detection

    Zhiruo Zhao, Chilukuri Mohan, Kishan Mehrotra

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  • Learning Decision Trees from Histogram Data Using Multiple Subsets of Bins

    Ram B. Gurung, Tony Lindgren, Henrik Boström

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  • GPU-Accelerated Parameter Optimization for Classification Rule Learning

    Greg Harris, Anand Panangadan, Viktor K. Prasanna

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  • Parallelizing Instance-Based Data Classifiers

    Imad Rahal, Emily Furst, Ramzi Haraty

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  • Global Discriminant Analysis for Unsupervised Feature Selection with Local Structure Preservation

    Xiucai Ye, Kaiyang Ji, Tetsuya Sakurai

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  • Propositionalization for Unsupervised Outlier Detection in Multi-Relational Data

    Fatemeh Riahi, Oliver Schulte

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Special Track: Intelligent Learning Technologies

  • Dimension Extraction Analysis of Student Performance on Problems

    Anthony Bucci, R. Paul Wiegand, Amruth N. Kumar, Jennifer L Albert, Alessio Gaspar

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  • Implementation Factors and Outcomes for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: A Case Study of Time and Efficiency with Cognitive Tutor Algebra

    Stephen E. Fancsali, Steven Ritter, Michael Yudelson, Michael Sandbothe, Susan R Berman

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  • Designing an Authorable Scenario Representation for Instructor Control over Computationally Tailored Narrative in Training

    Jeremiah T. Folsom-Kovarik, Angela Woods, Robert E. Wray

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  • Learning Approaches in a 3D Virtual Environment for Learning Energy Generation from Renewable Sources

    Foteini Grivokostopoulou, Isidoros Perikos, Konstantinos Kovas, Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis

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  • Smart Learning: Time-Dependent Context-Aware Learning Object Recommendations

    Christopher Krauss

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  • Intelligent Context-Aware Augmented Reality to Teach Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

    Christopher Reardon, Rachel Wright, David Cihak, Lynne E. Parker

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  • Improving Argument Mining in Student Essays by Learning and Exploiting Argument Indicators versus Essay Topics

    Huy Nguyen, Diane Litman

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  • Designing a Personal Assistant for Life-Long Learning (PAL3)

    William R. Swartout, Benjamin D. Nye, Arno Hartholt, Adam Reilly, Arthur C. Graesser, Kurt VanLehn, Jon Wetzel, Matt Liewer, Fabrizio Morbini, Brent Morgan, Lijia Wang, Grace Benn, Milton Rosenberg

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Special Track: Knowledge-Based AI

  • Hybrid of Qualitative and Quantitative Knowledge Models for Solving Physics Word Problems

    Savitha Sam Abraham, Deepak Khemani

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  • An Ontology-Based Mobile Application for Task Managing in Collaborative Groups

    Daniela Schmidt, Alison R. Panisson, Artur Freitas, Rafael H. Bordini, Felipe Meneguzzi, Renata Vieira

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  • Direct Object Omission as a Sign of Conceptual Defaultness

    Louis Hickman, Julia Taylor, Victor Raskin

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Special Track: Natural Language Processing of Ancient Languages

  • Hierarchy of Characters in the Chinese Buddhist Canon

    John S. Y. Lee, Tak Sum Wong

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  • Semantic Parallelism in Classical Chinese Poems

    John S. Y. Lee

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  • Recognizing Proper Names in UR III Texts through Supervised Learning

    Yudong Liu, James Hearne, Bryan Conrad

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  • Divergence from Syntax to Linear Order in Ancient Greek Lexical Networks

    Edoardo Maria Ponti

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Special Track: Recommender Systems

  • Incorporating Diversity in a Learning to Rank Recommender System

    Jacek Wasilewski, Neil Hurley

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  • On the Use of Opinionated Explanations to Rank and Justify Recommendations

    Khalil Muhammad, Aonghus Lawlor, Barry Smyth

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  • Nuking Item-Based Collaborative Recommenders with Power Items and Multiple Targets

    Carlos E. Seminario, David C. Wilson

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  • Meta-Path Selection for Extended Multi-Relational Matrix Factorization

    Fatemeh Vahedian, Robin Burke, Bamshad Mobasher

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  • Preference-Aware POI Recommendation with Temporal and Spatial Influence

    Madhuri Debnath, Praveen Kumar Tripathi, Ramez Elmasri

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Special Track: Semantic, Logics, Information Extraction and AI

  • Innovation Analytics Using Mined Semantic Analysis

    Walid Shalaby, Wlodek Zadrozny

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  • On Similarities Between Workflow Verification and Grammar Checking

    Roman Bartak, Vladislav Kubon

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  • TAO: System for Table Detection and Extraction from PDF Documents

    Martha O. Perez-Arriaga, Trilce Estrada, Soraya Abad-Mota

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  • Text Processing Chains: Getting Help from Typed Applicative Systems

    Marie Anastacio, Ismaïl Biskri

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Special Track: Social Media Analytics

  • Exploiting Crowd-Based Labels for Domain Focused Information Retrieval

    John Cory Miniter, Vineet Mehta, Kavitha Chandra

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  • Comparing Approaches for Combining Data Sampling and Feature Selection to Address Key Data Quality Issues in Tweet Sentiment Analysis

    Joseph D. Prusa, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar

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  • Necessity of Feature Selection when Augmenting Tweet Sentiment Feature Spaces with Emoticons

    Joseph D. Prusa, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Amri Napolitano

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Special Track: Uncertain Reasoning

  • Negated Min-Based Possibilistic Networks

    Salem Benferhat, Faiza Khellaf, Ismahane Zeddigha

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  • Causal Probabilistic Graphical Models for Decoding Effective Connectivity in Functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy

    Samuel Antonio Montero-Hernandez, Felipe Orihuela-Espina, Javier Herrera-Vega, Luis Enrique Sucar

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  • Propositional Probabilistic Reasoning at Maximum Entropy Modulo Theories

    Marco Wilhelm, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Andreas Ecke

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  • Causes for Query Answers from Databases, Datalog Abduction and View-Updates: The Presence of Integrity Constraints

    Babak Salimi, Leopoldo Bertossi

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  • Bayesian Networks with Conditional Truncated Densities

    Santiago Cortijo, Christophe Gonzales

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  • Minimal Tolerance Pairs for System Z-Like Ranking Functions for First-Order Conditional Knowledge Bases

    Christoph Beierle, Tobias Falke, Steven Kutsch, Gabriele Kern-Isberner

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  • A Formal Model of Plausibility Monitoring in Language Comprehension

    Maj-Britt Isberner, Gabriele Kern-Isberner

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  • Dialectical Characterization of Consistent Query Explanation with Existential Rules

    Abdallah Arioua, Madalina Croitoru

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  • A Collective Defence Against Grouped Attacks for Weighted Abstract Argumentation Frameworks

    Stefano Bistarelli, Fabio Rossi, Francesco Santini

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  • Multiplicative Factorization of Multi-Valued NIN-AND Tree Models

    Yang Xiang, Yiting Jin

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  • A Noisy-OR Model for Continuous Time Bayesian Networks

    Logan Perreault, Shane Strasser, Monica Thornton, John Sheppard

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  • Bayesian Network Inference with Simple Propagation

    Cory J. Butz, Jhonatan S. Oliveira, André E. dos Santos, Anders L. Madsen

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  • Testing Independencies in Bayesian Networks with i-Separation

    Cory J. Butz, André E. dos Santos, Jhonatan S. Oliveira, Christophe Gonzales

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Invited Talks

  • Inferring Contexts from Human Activities in Smart Spaces

    Jae Woong Lee, Sumi Helal

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Posters

  • FLAIRS-29 Poster Abstracts

    Zdravko Markov, Ingrid Russell

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