CAI 2011 Tentative Program

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Wednesday, May 25th

 

8:00 - 8:30               Conference Opening

8:30 - 10:30             Session #1      Information Retrieval   (Chair: Stan Matwin)

  Long

• Comparing distributional and mirror translation similarities for extracting synonyms - Philippe Muller and Philippe Langlais
• Comparing Humans and Automatic Speech Recognition Systems in Recognizing Dysarthric Speech - Kinfe Mengistu and Frank Rudzicz
• Cross Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation for Languages with Scarce Resources - Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, Nikolay Yakovets, Nick Cercone and Aijun An
• Improving Phenotype Name Recognition - Maryam Khordad, Robert E. Mercer and Peter Rogan

  Short

• Comparison of Semantic Similarity for Different Languages using the Google n-gram Corpus and Second-Order Co-occurrence Measures - Colette Joubarne and Inkpen.
• Subspace Mapping of Noisy Text Documents - Axel Soto, Marc Strickert, Gustavo Vazquez and Evangelos Milios

10:30 - 11:00           Morning Break  

11:00 - 12:00           Invited Talk 1: Machine Learning - Modern Times

                               Dr. Corinna Cortes   (Chair: Cory Butz)

12:00 - 13:30           Lunch

13:30 - 14:45          Session #2     AI & Search   (Chair: Atefeh Farzindar)

  Long

• Compact Features for Sentiment Analysis - Lisa Gaudette and Nathalie Japkowicz
• Consolidation using Context-Sensitive Multiple Task Learning - Ben Fowler and Daniel Silver

  Short

• Utility Estimation in Large Preference Graphs Using A* Search - Henry Bediako-Asare, Scott Buffett and Michael W. Fleming
• Granular State Space Search - Jigang Luo and Yiyu Yao

14:45 - 14:55            Afternoon Break  

14:55 - 16:00            Session #3      Reasoning under Uncertainty   (Chair: René Witte)

  Long

• Partial Evaluation for Planning in Multiagent Expedition - Yang Xiang and Franklin Hanshar

  Short

• Parallelizing A Convergent Approximate Inference Method - Ming Su
• Learning Dialogue POMDP Models from Data - Hamid R. Chinaei and Brahim Chaib-Draa
• Learning Probability Distributions over Permutations by Means of Fourier Coefficients - Ekhine Irurozki, Borja Calvo and Jose A. Lozano
• Moving Object Modelling Approach for Lowering Uncertainty in Location Tracking Systems - Wegdan Abdelsalam, David Chiu, Siu-Cheung Chau, Yasser Ebrahim and Maher Ahmed
• Base Station Controlled Intelligent clustering Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks - Yifer Jiang and Haiyi Zhang

16:00 - 16:30            Poster Session

16:30 - 18:00            Industry Presentations   (Chair: Corinna Cortes)

• Fred Popowich, Response42 Inc.
• Jeremy James, Frontline Robotics Inc.
• Atefeh Farzindar, NLP Technologies Inc.

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 Thursday, May 26th

8:30 - 10:00             Session #4      Machine Learning I   (Chair: Svetlana Kiritchenko)

  Long

• Comparison of Learned Versus Engineered Features for Detection of Mine Like Objects from Raw Sonar Images - Paul Hollensen, Warren Connors and Thomas Trappenberg
• Dynamic Obstacle Representations for Robot and Virtual Agent Navigation - Eric Aaron and Juan Pablo Mendoza
• Reducing Position-Sensitive Subset Ranking to Classification - Zhengya Sun, Wei Jin and Jue Wang

  Short

• A Learning Method for Developing PROAFTN Classifiers and A Comparative Studay with Decision Trees - Nabil Belacel and Feras Al-Obeidat
• Classifying Severely Imbalanced Data - William Klement, Szymon Wilk, Wojtek Michalowski and Stan Matwin

10:00 - 10:30            Morning Break  

10:30 - 12:00            Session #5      Machine Learning II   (Chair: Frank Rudzicz)

  Long

• Grounding Formulas with Complex Terms - Amir Aavani, Xiongnan Newman Wu, Eugenia Ternovska and David Mitchell
• Unsupervised Relation Extraction using Dependency Trees for Auto matic Generation of Multiple-Choice Questions - Naveed Afzal, Ruslan Mitkov and Atefeh Farzindar
• Instance Selection in Semi-Supervised Learning - Yuanyuan Guo, Harry Zhang and Xiaobo Liu

  Short

• Simulating the Effect of Emotional Stress on Task Performance using OCC - Dreama Jain and Ziad Kobti
• Using a Heterogeneous Dataset for Emotion Analysis in Text - Soumaya Chaffar and Diana Inkpen

12:00 - 13:30            Lunch

13:30 - 15:00            Session #6      Data Mining   (Chair: Guy Lapalme)

  Long

• Strategic Decision Making for Inshore Sailboat Racing - Daniel Ferguson and Pantelis Elinas
• Generic Solution Construction in Valuation-Based Systems - Marc Pouly
• COSINE: A Vertical Group Difference Approach to Contrast Set Mining - Mondelle Simeon and Robert Hilderman

  Short

• Extending AdaBoost to Iteratively Vary Its Base Classifiers - Erico De Souza and Stan Matwin
• Extracting Relations between Diseases, Treatments, and Tests from Clinical Data - Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen

15:00 - 16:00            Invited Talk 2: Learning to Behave by Reading

                                Dr. Regina Barzilay   (Chair: Holger Hoos)

16:00 - 17:00            CAIAC Meeting  

18:00 - 19:00            Award Reception  

19:00 - 21:00            Award Banquet

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  Friday, May 27th

8:30 - 9:30                Session #7      Constraint Satisfaction   (Chair: Malek Mouhoub)

  Long

• Finding Small Backdoors in SAT Instances - Zijie Li and Peter van Beek
• Correcting Different Types of Errors in Texts - Aminul Islam and Diana Inkpen

  Short

• An Improved Satisfiable SAT Generator Based on Random Subgraph Isomorphism - Calin Anton

9:30 - 10:00              Morning Break

10:00 - 11:00            Session #8      Semantic Analysis   (Chair: Philippe Langlais)

  Long

• Automatic Semantic Web Annotation of Named Entities - Eric Charton, Michel Gagnon and Benoit Ozell
• A Supervised Method of Feature Weighting for Measuring Semantic Relatedness - Alistair Kennedy and Stan Szpakowicz

  Short

• Exploiting Conversational Features to Detect High-Quality Blog Comments - Nicholas Fitzgerald, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Murray and Shafiq Joty

11:00 - 12:00            Invited Talk 3: A Multi-dimensional Design Space of AI: the

                                frontiers of research and beyond

                                Dr. David Poole   (Chair: Danny Silver)

12:00 - 13:30            Lunch

13:30 - 15:00            Session #9       AI & GSS   (Chair: Bob Mercer)

  Long

• Characterizing a Brain-Based Value-Function Approximator - Patrick Connor and Thomas Trappenberg
• Intelligent Software Developement Environments: Integrating Natural Language Processing with the Eclipse Platform - Rene Witte, Bahar Sateli, Ninus Khamis and Juergen Rilling.

  Ph.D. Talk

  GSS Talk

• Hybrid Reasoning for Complex Ontology Classification - Weihong Song, Bruce Spencer and Weichang Du

15:00 - 15:30            Afternoon Break

15:30 - 16:00            Session #10     AI & Applications   (Chair: Cory Butz)

  Short

• Evaluation and Application of Scenario Based Design on Thunderbird - Bushra Khawaja and Lisa Fan
• Anomaly-Based Network Intrusion Detection Using Outlier Subspace Analysis: A Case Study - David Kershaw, Qigang Gao and Hai Wang
• Using Semantic Information to Answer Complex Questions - Yllias Chali, Sadid Hasan and Kaisar Imam
• Exploring Answer Set Programming for Stream Reasoning - Thang Manh Do, Seng Loke and Fei Liu