23. FLAIRS Conference 2011: Palm Beach, Florida, USA

• Preface.
  
• Florida AI Research Society.
  
• FLAIRS Conference Committees.
  
• Thomas K. Landauer, Rosalind W. Picard, David S. Touretzky, Ryan Baker, Robert C. Holte, Amanda J. Stent, Daniel Vanderveken:
  Invited Talk Abstracts.
  

Main Conference

• Reza Abbasian, Malek Mouhoub, Amin Jula:
  Solving Graph Coloring Problems Using Cultural Algorithms.
  
• Roman Barták:
  A Novel Constraint Model for Parallel Planning.
  
• Janell Duhaney, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, John C. Sloan:
  Feature Level Sensor Fusion for Improved Fault Detection in MCM Systems for Ocean Turbines.
  
• Kevin Gold, Catherine Havasi, Michael Anderson, Kenneth C. Arnold:
  Comparing Matrix Decomposition Methods for Meta-Analysis and Reconstruction of Cognitive Neuroscience Results.
  
• Michael Janzen, Michael C. Horsch, Eric Neufeld:
  A Method of Virtual Camera Selection Using Soft Constraints.
  
• Imene Jraidi, Maher Chaouachi, Claude Frasson:
  Automatic Detection of User' Uncertainty in Problem Solving Task: a Multimodal Approach.
  
• Sandeep Kumar, Sergio Jiménez Celorrio, Frederic Py, Deepak Khemani, Kanna Rajan:
  Optimizing Hidden Markov Models for Ocean Feature Detection.
  
• Lei Li, Wenting Lu, Jingxuan Li, Tao Li, Honggang Zhang, Jun Guo:
  Exploring Interaction Between Images and Texts for Web Image Categorization.
  
• Jerusa Marchi, Laurent Perrussel:
  Prime Normal Forms in Belief Merging.
  
• Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Christopher A. Welty, Jerry R. Hobbs, Eduard H. Hovy:
  Using Part-Of Relations for Discovering Causality.
  
• Vikas Shivashankar, Rajiv Jain, Ugur Kuter, Dana S. Nau:
  Real-Time Planning for Covering an Initially-Unknown Spatial Environment.
  
• Huanjing Wang, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Naeem Seliya:
  How Many Software Metrics Should be Selected for Defect Prediction?
  
• Gian Piero Zarri:
  Differentiating Between "Functional" and "Semantic" Roles in a High-Level Conceptual Data Modeling Language.
  
• Yi Zhang, Tao Li:
  Consensus Clustering + Meta Clustering = Multiple Consensus Clustering.
  
• Can Baskent:
  Geometric Public Announcement Logics.
  
• Cameron Carpenter, Geoff Sutcliffe:
  Sporcle Goes AI.
  
• Guillermo De Ita Luna, Meliza Contreras González, Isaac Chantes Quechol:
  A Multiagent System for Modeling Democratic Elections.
  
• Farnaz Ghavamifar, Samira Sadaoui, Malek Mouhoub:
  Preference Elicitation and Winner Determination in Multi-Attribute Auctions.
  
• Susan P. Imberman, Irene Ludwig, Sarah Zelikovitz:
  Using Decision Trees to Find Patterns in an Ophthalmology Dataset.
  
• Ozkan Ozcan, Jonathan K. Alt, Christian J. Darken:
  Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Agent Learning.
  
• Oscar E. Romero, Jesus A. Gonzalez, Lawrence B. Holder:
  Handling of Numeric Ranges with the Subdue System.
  
• Zhizheng Zhang:
  Answer Set Optimization with Dependence Based Priority Propagagtion.
  

Special Track - Affective Computing

• Sidney K. D'Mello, Rafael A. Calvo:
  Special Track on Affective Computing.
  
• Slava Kalyuga:
  Cognitive Load Theory: Implications for Affective Computing.
  
• Jerry Lin, Marc Spraragen, Jim Blythe, Michael Zyda:
  EmoCog: Computational Integration of Emotion and Cognitive Architecture.
  
• Marcin Skowron, Hannes Pirker, Stefan Rank, Georgios Paltoglou, Junghyun Ahn, Stéphane Gobron:
  No Peanuts! Affective Cues for the Virtual Bartender.
  
• Ielka van der Sluis, Chris Mellish, Gavin Doherty:
  Affective Text: Generation Strategies and Emotion Measurement Issues.
  
• Dreama Jain, Ziad Kobti:
  Emotionally Responsive General Artificial Agent Simulation.
  

Special Track - AI, Cognitive Semantics, Computational Linguistics and Logics

• Ismaïl Biskri, Florence Le Priol, Roger Nkambou, Anca Pascu:
  Special Track on AI, Cognitive Semantics, Computational Linguistics, and Logics.
  
• Maryvonne Abraham:
  From a Cognitive Model Towards an Assistive and Augmentative Written Language.
  
• Pilar León Araúz, Arianne Reimerink:
  EcoLexicon and FunGramKB: Applying COREL to Domain-Specific Knowledge.
  
• Ismaïl Biskri, Adel Jebali:
  Agreement Asymmetries in Arabic from a Categorical Perspective.
  
• Simon Delamarre:
  The Utility of Combinatory Categorial Grammar in Designing a Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Languages.
  
• Jean-Pierre Desclés, Hee-Jin Ro:
  Aspecto-Temporal Representation for Discourse Analysis: An Example of Formal Computation.
  
• Boris Galitsky, Josep Lluís de la Rosa, Gabor Dobrocsi:
  Building Integrated Opinion Delivery Environment.
  
• Boris Lluis de la Galitsky, Josep Lluís de la Rose, Gabor Lluis de la Dobrocsi:
  Mapping Syntactic to Semantic Generalizations of Linguistic Parse Trees.
  
• Vladislav Kubon, Markéta Lopatková:
  Studying Properties of Czech Complex Sentences from an Annotated Corpus.
  
• Florence Le Priol:
  Image and Text Mining Based on Contextual Exploration from Multiple Points of View.
  
• Yue Ma, François Lévy, Sudeep Ghimire:
  Reasoning with Annotations of Texts.
  
• Michel A. Paquette:
  Rational Interaction in Dialogues: Ingredients for Success).
  
• Daniel Vanderveken:
  Towards a Formal Discourse Pragmatics.
  
• Yorick Wilks:
  Computational Semantics Requires Computation.
  
• Ismaïl Biskri, Jean Guy Meunier, Adam Joly, Marc André Rochette:
  Toward a New Language Engineering.
  

Special Track - Applied Natural Language Processing

• Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus:
  Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing.
  
• Amanda J. Stent:
  Shared Experiences, Shared Representations, and the Implications for Applied Natural Language Processing.
  
• Sven Anderson, S. Rebecca Thomas, Camden Segal, Yu Wu:
  Automatic Reduction of a Document-Derived Noun Vocabulary.
  
• Eduardo Blanco, Hakki C. Cankaya, Dan I. Moldovan:
  Commonsense Knowledge Extraction Using Concepts Properties.
  
• Eduardo Blanco, Dan I. Moldovan:
  Some Issues on Detecting Negation from Text.
  
• Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Philip M. McCarthy, Travis Alan Lamkin, G. Tanner Jackson, Joseph Magliano, Danielle S. McNamara:
  Automatic Natural Language Processing and the Detection of Reading Skills and Reading Comprehension.
  
• Ekawat Chaowicharat, Kanlaya Naruedomkul:
  Co-Occurrence-Based Error Correction Approach to Word Segmentation.
  
• Shi Feng, Zhiqiang Cai, Scott A. Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara:
  Simulating Human Ratings on Word Concreteness.
  
• Michelle L. Gregory, Liam McGrath, Eric Belanga Bell, Kelly O'Hara, Kelly Domico:
  Domain Independent Knowledge Base Population from Structured and Unstructured Data Sources.
  
• Travis Alan Lamkin, Philip M. McCarthy:
  The Hierarchy of Detective Fiction: A Gramulator Analysis.
  
• Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus:
  Dissimilarity Kernels for Paraphrase Identification.
  
• Tsuyoshi Okita, Andy Way:
  Given Bilingual Terminology in Statistical Machine Translation: MWE-Sensitve Word Alignment and Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process-Based Translation Model Smoothing.
  
• Travis Rasor, Andrew Olney, Sidney K. D'Mello:
  Student Speech Act Classification Using Machine Learning.
  
• Rod D. Roscoe, Scott A. Crossley, Jennifer L. Weston, Danielle S. McNamara:
  Automated Assessment of Paragraph Quality: Introduction, Body, and Conclusion Paragraphs.
  
• Rachel M. Rufenacht, Philip M. McCarthy, Travis Alan Lamkin:
  Fairy Tales and ESL Texts: An Analysis of Linguistic Features Using the Gramulator.
  
• Vasile Rus, Shi Feng, Russell D. Brandon, Scott A. Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara:
  A Linguistic Analysis of Student-Generated Paraphrases.
  
• Hansen Andrew Schwartz, Fernando Gomez:
  Evaluating Semantic Metrics on Tasks of Concept Similarity.
  
• Oussama Sellmi:
  Event Extraction Approach for French Language.
  
• Ravi Som Sinha, Rada Flavia Mihalcea:
  Using Centrality Algorithms on Directed Graphs for Synonym Expansion.
  
• Olga Uryupina, Massimo Poesio, Claudio Giuliano, Kateryna Tymoshenko:
  Disambiguation and Filtering Methods in Using Web Knowledge for Coreference Resolution.
  
• Julio Villena-Román, Sonia Collada-Pérez, Sara Lana-Serrano, José Carlos González Cristóbal:
  Hybrid Approach Combining Machine Learning and a Rule-Based Expert System for Text Categorization.
  
• William Yang Wang, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, David R. Traum:
  Improving Spoken Dialogue Understanding Using Phonetic Mixture Models.
  
• Jennifer L. Weston, Scott A. Crossley, Philip M. McCarthy, Danielle S. McNamara:
  Number of Words Versus Number Ideas: Finding a Better Predictor of Writing Quality.
  
• Martha Brhane, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke:
  Using Latent Semantic Analysis and Word Matching to Enhance Bridging Reading Strategy Identification.
  
• Grace Chen, Emma Tosch, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, David R. Traum:
  Evaluating Conversational Characters Created through Question Generation.
  
• Aymen Elkhlifi, Rihab Bouchlaghem, Rim Faiz:
  Opinion Extraction and Classification Based on Semantic Similarities.
  
• Alex Chengyu Fang, Wan Yin Claie Li:
  Evaluation of Ontology Knowledge in Chinese Classical Poetry Classification.
  
• Barbara E. Haertl, Philip M. McCarthy:
  Differential Linguistic Features in U.S. Immigration Newspaper Articles: A Contrastive Corpus Analysis Using the Gramulator.
  
• Arthur Hullender, Philip M. McCarthy:
  A Contrastive Corpus Analysis of Modern Art Criticism and Photography Criticism.
  
• Tsuyoshi Okita, Alexandru Ceausu, Andy Way:
  Statistical Machine Translation with Factored Translation Model: MWEs, Separation of Affixes, and Others.
  
• Sharon Myrtle Paradesi:
  Geotagging Tweets Using Their Content.
  
• Sowmya Ramachandran, Randy Jensen, Oscar Bascara, Tamitha Carpenter, Todd Denning, Shaun Sucillon:
  Mining Chat Conversations: The Next Frontier.
  
• Saurav Sahay:
  Intentional Analysis of Medical Conversations for Community Engagement.
  
• Brock Terwilleger, Philip M. McCarthy, Travis Alan Lamkin:
  Bias in Hard News Articles from Fox News and MSNBC: An Empirical Assessment Using the Gramulator.
  

Special Track - Artificial Intelligence Education

• Todd W. Neller, Jim Marshall:
  Special Track on Artificial Intelligence Education.
  
• John Robert Hoare, Richard E. Edwards, Bruce J. MacLennan, Lynne E. Parker:
  Myro-C++: An Open Source C++ Library for CS Education Using AI.
  
• Jeremy Karnowski, David S. Touretzky:
  A New Set of Eyes and a New Pair of Legs: A Robust Learning Environment for Advanced High School Robotics.
  
• Eni Mustafaraj, Scott D. Anderson:
  Learning about Machine Learning: An Extended Assignment to Classify Twitter Accounts.
  
• Todd W. Neller:
  Rook Jumping Maze Generation for AI Education.
  
• Christine Ann Shannon, Drew McKinney:
  An Evolutionary Algorithm for Assigning Students to Courses.
  

Special Track - Case-Based Reasoning

• Juan A. Recio-García, Luc Lamontagne:
  Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning.
  
• Michael W. Floyd, Babak Esfandiari:
  Supplemental Case Acquisition Using Mixed-Initiative Control.
  
• Tor Gunnar Houeland:
  An Efficient Random Decision Tree Algorithm for Case-Based Reasoning Systems.
  
• Ricardo Palma, Pedro A. González-Calero, Marco Antonio Gómez-Martín, Pedro Pablo Gómez-Martín:
  Extending Case-Based Planning with Behavior Trees.
  
• Jay Powell, Matthew Molineaux, David W. Aha:
  Active and Interactive Discovery of Goal Selection Knowledge.
  
• Lara Quijano Sánchez, Juan A. Recio-García, Belén Díaz-Agudo, Guillermo Jiménez-Díaz:
  Happy Movie: A Group Recommender Application in Facebook.
  

Special Track - Cognition, AI, and Human Computer Interaction

• Stephen W. Briner, Nicholas D. Duran:
  Special Track on Cognition and Artificial Intelligence.
  
• Nik Nailah Binti Abdullah, Helen Sharp, Shinichi Honiden:
  How Artefacts Influence the Construction of Communications and Contexts during Collaboration in an Agile Software Development Team.
  
• Petr Jarusek, Radek Pelánek:
  What Determines Difficulty of Transport Puzzles?
  
• Radek Pelánek:
  Difficulty Rating of Sudoku Puzzles by a Computational Model.
  
• Jean-Paul Sansonnet, François Bouchet:
  Integrating Psychological Behaviors in the Rational Process of Conversational Assistant Agents.
  
• Nik Nailah Binti Abdullah, Samuel Mendes, Stefano A. Cerri, Shinichi Honiden:
  Activity States Framework as an Experimental Approach to Studying, and Modeling Context in Web-Mediated Collaborative Dialogs.
  
• Usef Faghihi, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Roger Nkambou:
  A Cognitive Tutoring Agent with Automatic Reasoning Capabilities.
  
• Steven Stenberg Hansen, David S. Touretzky:
  Human-Like Understanding of Two-Line Figures.
  

Special Track - Data Mining

• David Bisant, William Eberle:
  Special Track on Data Mining.
  
• Wilker Altidor, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Jason Van Hulse:
  Robustness of Filter-Based Feature Ranking: A Case Study.
  
• Martin Atzmueller, Folke Mitzlaff:
  Efficient Descriptive Community Mining.
  
• Haimonti Dutta, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Austin Lee, Axinia Radeva, Boyi Xie, David L. Waltz:
  Learning Parameters of the K-Means Algorithm From Subjective Human Annotation.
  
• V. Yeshwanth, V. Vimal Raj, M. Saravanan:
  Evolutionary Churn Prediction in Mobile Networks Using Hybrid Learning.
  
• William Eberle, Lawrence B. Holder:
  Graph-Based Knowledge Discovery: Compression versus Frequency.
  
• Prabakararaj Swapna Raj, Balaraman Ravindran:
  Utility Driven Clustering.
  

Special Track - Games and Entertainment

• D. Hunter Hale, Kevin Gold:
  Special Track on Games and Entertainment.
  
• Katie Long Genter, Santiago Ontañón, Ashwin Ram:
  Learning Opponent Strategies through First Order Induction.
  
• Sanjeet Hajarnis, Chinmay Barve, Devika Karnik, Mark O. Riedl:
  Supporting End-User Authoring of Alternate Reality Games with Cross-Location Compatibility.
  
• Frederick W. P. Heckel, G. Michael Youngblood:
  Failure Detection and Dynamic Extensions for Behavior-Based Subsumption.
  

Special Track - Intelligent Tutoring Systems

• Bob Hausmann, Rania A. HodHod, G. Tanner Jackson:
  Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
  
• Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Eunyoung Ha, Michael D. Wallis, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester:
  Learning a Tutorial Dialogue Policy for Delayed Feedback.
  
• John Champaign, Robin Cohen:
  Exploring the Effects of Errors in Assessment and Time Requirements of Learning Objects in a Peer-Based Intelligent Tutoring System.
  
• Sidney K. D'Mello:
  Patterns of Word Usage in Expert Tutoring Sessions: Verbosity versus Quality.
  
• Kevin Dela Rosa, Maxine Eskenazi:
  Impact of Word Sense Disambiguation on Ordering Dictionary Definitions in Vocabulary Learning Tutors.
  
• Lotfi Derbali, Pierre Chalfoun, Claude Frasson:
  A Theoretical and Empirical Approach in Assessing Motivational Factors: From Serious Games To an ITS.
  
• G. Tanner Jackson, Danielle S. McNamara:
  Motivational Impacts of a Game-Based Intelligent Tutoring System.
  
• Michael Lipschultz, Diane J. Litman, Pamela W. Jordan, Sandra Katz:
  Predicting Changes in Level of Abstraction in Tutor Responses to Students.
  
• James Michael Niehaus, Boyang Li, Mark O. Riedl:
  Automated Scenario Adaptation in Support of Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
  
• Roxanne B. Raine, Lisa Mintz, Scott A. Crossley, Jianmin Dai, Danielle S. McNamara:
  Text Box Size, Skill, and Iterative Practice in a Writing Task.
  
• Rod D. Roscoe, Laura Varner, Zhiqiang Cai, Jennifer L. Weston, Scott A. Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara:
  Internal Usability Testing of Automated Essay Feedback in an Intelligent Writing Tutor.
  
• Yutao Wang, Neil T. Heffernan:
  The "Assistance" Model: Leveraging How Many Hints and Attempts a Student Needs.
  
• Arthur Ward, Diane J. Litman:
  Adding Abstractive Reflection to a Tutorial Dialog System.
  
• Ankit Malpani, Balaraman Ravindran, Hema Murthy:
  Personalized Intelligent Tutoring System Using Reinforcement Learning.
  

Special Track - Ontologies and Social Semantics Web for Intelligent Educational Systems

• Darina Dicheva, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Roger Nkambou, Niels Pinkwart:
  Special Track on Ontologies and Social Semantic Web for Intelligent Educational Systems.
  
• Pamela Faber, Ricardo Mairal, Pedro Magaña:
  Linking a Domain-Specific Ontology to a General Ontology.
  
• Konstantinos Zoumpatianos, Andreas Papasalouros, Konstantinos Kotis:
  Automated Transformation of SWRL Rules into Multiple-Choice Questions.
  
• Darina Dicheva, Christo Dichev, Mariana Damova:
  Ontological Support for Creative Writing.
  

Special Track - Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction

• Chutima Boonthum:
  Special Track on Robotics and Human Interaction.
  
• Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, David S. Touretzky, Elva J. Jones, Thorna Humphries, Rebecca Caldwell:
  The ARTSI Alliance: Using Robotics and AI to Recruit African-Americans to Computer Science Research.
  
• Fang Tang, Spondon Saha:
  Winner Determination for Simultaneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation.
  
• Owen Paul Watson, David S. Touretzky:
  Navigating with the Tekkotsu Pilot.
  
• Hasani Burns, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke:
  Snackbot: Vision and Perception with Video and Audio Captures using GStreamer.
  
• Xuejun Liang:
  Translating Robotics Course Materials from Elite Research I Universities to Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
  

Special Track - Uncertain Reasoning

• Laurent Perrussel, Cory J. Butz:
  Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning.
  
• Imen Boukhris, Zied Elouedi, Salem Benferhat:
  Modeling Interventions Using Belief Causal Networks.
  
• Pablo Hernandez-Leal, Luis Enrique Sucar, Jesus A. Gonzalez:
  Learning Temporal Nodes Bayesian Networks.
  
• Karen H. Jin, Dan Wu:
  Optimizing Local Computation for Cooperative Probabilistic Reasoning.
  
• Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Guillermo Ricardo Simari:
  A Default Logical Semantics for Defeasible Argumentation.
  
• Suzanne M. Mahoney, Ethan Comstock, Bradley deBlois, Steven Darcy:
  Aggregating Forecasts Using a Learned Bayesian Network.
  
• Diego Maniloff, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz:
  Hybrid Value Iteration for POMDPs.
  
• Eugene Santos, Qi Gu, Eunice E. Santos:
  Tuning a Bayesian Knowledge Base.
  
• Julio Cesar Zaragoza, Luis Enrique Sucar, Eduardo F. Morales:
  A Two-Step Method to Learn Multidimensional Bayesian Network Classifiers Based on Mutual Information Measures.
  

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