Edited by H. Chad Lane and Hans W. Guesgen

Sanibel Island, Florida. May 19–21, 2009. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California.

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Frontmatter

Title Page — [PDF]
AAAI Press

Preface — [PDF]
H. Chad Lane, Hans W. Guesgen

Florida AI Research Society — [PDF]
H. Chad Lane, Hans W. Guesgen

FLAIRS-22 Conference Committees — [PDF]
H. Chad Lane, Hans W. Guesgen

Invited Talks

Invited Talks — [PDF]
Vincent Aleven, Eugene C. Freuder, Arthur C. Graesser, James Pustejovsky, Jan Wiebe

General Papers

Modeling Semantic Question Context for Question Answering — [PDF]
Protima Banerjee, Hyoil Han

Systematic Evaluation of Convergence Criteria in Iterative Training for NLP — [PDF]
Patricia Brent, Nathan David Green, Paul Breimyer, Ramya Krishnamurthy, Nagiza F. Samatova

Inference with Relational Theories over Infinite Domains — [PDF]
Nicholas L. Cassimatis, Arthi Murugesan, Perrin G. Bignoli

Automatic Text Categorization of Mathematical Word Problems — [PDF]
Suleyman Cetintas, Luo Si, Yan Ping Xin, Dake Zhang, Joo Young Park

Determining Paragraph Type from Paragraph Position — [PDF]
Kyle B. Dempsey, Philip M. McCarthy, John C. Myers, Jennifer Weston, Danielle S. McNamara

A Knowledge Compilation Technique for ALC Tboxes — [PDF]
Ulrich Furbach, Heiko Günther, Claudia Obermaier

Training to a Neural Net's Inherent Bias — [PDF]
Steven Gutstein, Olac Fuentes, Eric Freudenthal

A Semantic Framework for Uncertainties in Ontologies — [PDF]
Joana Hois

Mapping Grounded Object Properties across Perceptually Heterogeneous Embodiments — [PDF]
Zsolt Kira

Lifting the Limitations in a Rule-based Policy Language — [PDF]
Alan Lindsay, Maria Fox, Derek Long

Document Clustering and Visualization with Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Self-Organizing Maps — [PDF]
Jeremy R. Millar, Gilbert L. Peterson, Michael J. Mendenhall

Coinductive Logic Programming and its Application to Boolean SAT — [PDF]
Richard Min, Gopal Gupta

A Large Margin Approach to Anaphora Resolution for Neuroscience Knowledge Discovery — [PDF]
I. Burak Ozyurt

Reasoning about Changes of Corpus of Documents: Reasoning on Association Rules — [PDF]
Laurent Perrussel

Spyglass: A System for Ontology Based Document Retrieval and Visualization — [PDF]
John Rushing, Todd Berendes, Hong Lin, Cody Buntain, Sara Graves

Responding to Sneaky Agents in Multi-agent Domains — [PDF]
Richard S. Seymour, Gilbert L Peterson

Multiple Answer Extraction for Question Answering with Automated Theorem Proving Systems — [PDF]
Geoff Sutcliffe, Aparna Yerikalapudi, Steven Trac

Memory Based Goal Schema Recognition — [PDF]
Dan G. Tecuci, Bruce Porter

EA NLU: Practical Language Understanding for Cognitive Modeling — [PDF]
Emmett Tomai, Kenneth D. Forbus

Improving Biomedical Document Retrieval by Mining Domain Knowledge — [PDF]
Shuguang Wang, Milos Hauskrecht

Analyzing Team Actions with Cascading HMM — [PDF]
Brandyn Allen White, Nate Blaylock, Ladislau Bölöni

General Posters

Measuring General Relational Structure Using the Block Modularity Clustering Objective — [PDF]
Adam Paul Anthony, Marie desJardins, Michael Lombardi

Extending Temporal Causal Graph for Diagnosis Problems — [PDF]
Lamia Belouaer, Maroua Bouzid, Malek Mouhoub

HAMR: A Hybrid Multi-Robot Control Architecture — [PDF]
Daylond James Hooper, Gilbert Peterson

Extending the Cardinal Direction Calculus to a Temporal Dimension — [PDF]
Jedrzej Osinski

Generalizing and Categorizing Skills in Reinforcement Learning Agents Using Partial Policy Homomorphisms — [PDF]
Srividhya Rajendran, Manfred Huber

Augmented Cyberspace Exploiting Real-time Biological Sensor Fusion — [PDF]
Yoshitaka Sakurai, Kouhei Takada, Shoko Hashida, Setsuo Tsuruta

AI Education

Special Track on Artificial Intelligence Education — [PDF]
Todd Neller

Using Mixed Reality to Facilitate Education in Robotics and AI — [PDF]
John Eric Anderson, Jacky Baltes

Simulating a LEGO Mindstorms RCX Robot in the Robotran Environment — [PDF]
Robert Mark Meyer, David C. Puehn

The Crawler, A Class Room Demonstrator for Reinforcement Learning — [PDF]
Michel Tokic, Wolfgang Ertel, Joachim Fessler

Robot Defense: Using the Java Instructional Game Engine in the Artificial Intelligence Classroom — [PDF]
Scott A Wallace, Ingrid Russell

Game-Related Examples of Artificial Intelligence — [PDF]
Ken T. N. Hartness

From Mad Libs to Tic Tac Toe: Using Robots and Game Programming as a Theme in an Introduction to Programming Course for Non-Majors — [PDF]
Jennifer S. Kay

AI Planning and Scheduling

Special Track on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling — [PDF]
Roman Bartak

Maintaining Focus: Overcoming Attention Deficit Disorder in Contingent Planning — [PDF]
Ron Alford, Ugur Kuter, Dana Nau, Elnatan Reisner, Robert Goldman

ACOPlan: Planning with Ants — [PDF]
Marco Baioletti, Alfredo Milani, Valentina Poggioni, Fabio Rossi

Just-in-Time Backfilling in Multi-Agent Scheduling — [PDF]
Anthony Gallagher, Luke Hunsberger, Stephen F. Smith

Scheduling the Finnish 1st Division Ice Hockey League — [PDF]
Jari Kyngäs, Kimmo Nurmi

Reasoning with Conditional Time-Intervals. Part II: An Algebraical Model for Resources — [PDF]
Philippe Laborie, Jerome Rogerie, Paul Shaw, Petr Vilim

Towards Shorter Solutions for Problems of Path Planning for Multiple Robots in Theta-like Environments — [PDF]
Pavel Surynek

Enhancing Constraint Models for Planning Problems — [PDF]
Roman Bartak, Daniel Toropila

Knowledge Representation for Intelligent and Error-Prone Execution of Robust Granular Plans. A Conceptual Study — [PDF]
Sebastian Ernst, Antoni Ligeza

Tuning Search Heuristics for Classical Planning with Macro Actions — [PDF]
I. Murugeswari, N. S. Narayanaswamy

Applied Natural Language Processing

Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing — [PDF]
Philip Michael McCarthy, Scott Crossley

A New Method for Measuring English Verb's Metaphor Making Potential — [PDF]
Zili Chen, Jonathan J. Webster, Tianyong Hao, Ian C. Chow

Exploring Lexical Network Development in Second Language Learners — [PDF]
Scott Crossley, Julian E. (Gene) Boggess, Thomas L. Salsbury

Hierarchical Soft Clustering and Automatic Text Summarization for Accessing the Web on Mobile Devices for Visually Impaired People — [PDF]
Gaël Harry Dias, Sebastião Pais, Fernando Cunha, Hugo Costa, David Machado, Tiago Barbosa, Bruno Martins

A Coh-Metrix Analysis of Variation among Biomedical Abstracts — [PDF]
Benjamin Duncan, Charles Hall

Expanding a Catalogue of Deceptive Linguistic Features with NLP Technologies — [PDF]
Nicholas D. Duran, Scott A. Crossley, Charles Hall, Philip M. McCarthy, Danielle S. McNamara

Assessment of LDAT as a Grammatical Diversity Assessment Tool — [PDF]
Scott Leigh Healy, Joseph D. Weintraub, Philip M. McCarthy, Charles E. Hall, Danielle S. McNamara

CombiTagger: A System for Developing Combined Taggers — [PDF]
Verena Henrich, Timo Reuter, Hrafn Loftsson

Paraphrase Identification Using Weighted Dependencies and Word Semantics — [PDF]
Mihai Lintean, Vasile Rus

Computational Replication of Human Paraphrase Assessment — [PDF]
Philip Michael McCarthy, Zhigiang Cai, Danielle S. McNamara

Testing Analogical Proportions with Google using Kolmogorov Information Theory — [PDF]
Henri Prade, Gilles Richard

Computational Considerations in Correcting User-Language — [PDF]
Adam M. Renner, Philip M. McCarthy, Danielle S. McNamara

SlidesGen: Automatic Generation of Presentation Slides for a Technical Paper Using Summarization — [PDF]
M. Sravanthi, C. Ravindranath Chowdary, P. Sreenivasa Kumar

c-rater:Automatic Content Scoring for Short Constructed Responses — [PDF]
Jana Zuheir Sukkarieh, John Blackmore

The Role of Knowledge-based Features in Polarity Classification at Sentence Level — [PDF]
Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow

Simplification of Patent Claim Sentences for their Paraphrasing and Summarization — [PDF]
Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Gerard Casamayor, Gabriela Ferraro, Leo Wanner

Automated Knowledge Annotation for Dynamic Collaborative Environments — [PDF]
Andrew J. Cowell, Michelle L. Gregory, Eric J. Marshall, Liam McGrath

Hidden Markov Random Fields Based LSI Text Semi-supervised Clustering — [PDF]
Kerui Min, Gang Liu, Xin Chen, Shengqi Lu

Extracting Meaning from Cell Phone Improvement Ideas — [PDF]
Jenine Turner, Raimondas Lencevicius, Mark Adler

Towards a Method for Assessing Summaries in Spanish using LSA — [PDF]
René Alejandro Venegas

Case Based Reasoning

Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning — [PDF]
Ian Watson, Santiago Ontanon

What a Legal CBR Ontology Should Provide — [PDF]
Kevin D. Ashley

Improving KD-Tree Based Retrieval for Attribute Dependent Generalized Cases — [PDF]
Ralph Bergmann, Alexander Tartakovski

Methodology for Classifying and Indexing Case-Based Reasoning Systems in the Health Sciences — [PDF]
Isabelle Bichindaritz, John C. Reed, Jr.

Discovering Patterns of Collaboration for Recommendation — [PDF]
Sidath Gunawardena, Rosina Weber

Beating the Defense: Using Plan Recognition to Inform Learning Agents — [PDF]
Matthew Molineaux, David W. Aha, Gita Sukthankar

Data Mining

Special Track on Data Mining — [PDF]
William Eberle, David Bisant

Multivariate Time Series Classification with Temporal Abstractions — [PDF]
Iyad Batal, Lucia Sacchi, Riccardo Bellazzi, Milos Hauskrecht

Discovering Anomalies to Multiple Normative Patterns in Structural and Numeric Data — [PDF]
William Eberle, Lawrence Holder

VipBoost: A More Accurate Boosting Algorithm — [PDF]
Xiaoyuan Su, Taghi M Khoshgoftaar, Russell Greiner

Rule Mining and Missing-Value Prediction in the Presence of Data Ambiguities — [PDF]
Kasun Wickramaratna, Miroslav Kubat, Kamal Premaratne, Thanuka Wickramarathne

FCP-Growth: Class Itemsets for Class Association Rules — [PDF]
Emna Bahri, Stephane Lallich

Confidence-based Tuning of Nomogram Predictions — [PDF]
Tony Mancill, Scott A Wallace

Design, Evaluation, and Refinement of Intelligent Systems

Special Track on Design, Evaluation, and Refinement of Intelligent Systems — [PDF]
Rainer Knauf

A Data Warehouse-Based Approach for Quality Management, Analysis and Evaluation of Intelligent Systems using Subgroup Mining — [PDF]
Martin Atzmueller, Frank Puppe, Stephanie Beer

Advanced Measures for Empirical Testing — [PDF]
Joachim Baumeister

Verification of Distributed Knowledge in Semantic Knowledge Wikis — [PDF]
Joachim Baumeister, Grzegorz J. Nalepa

XTT Rules Design and Implementation with Object-Oriented Methods — [PDF]
Grzegorz Jacek Nalepa

On ALSV Rules Formulation and Inference — [PDF]
Grzegorz Jacek Nalepa, Antoni Ligeza

Unit Testing for Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning — [PDF]
Carl Schultz, Robert Amor, Hans Guesgen

Supporting Uncertainty and Inconsistency in Semantic Web Applications — [PDF]
Neli P. Zlatareva

A Textual Subgroup Mining Approach for Rapid ARD+ Model Capture — [PDF]
Martin Atzmueller, Grzegorz J. Nalepa

In Search for the Human Factor in Rule Based Game AI: The GrinTu Evaluation and Refinement Approach — [PDF]
Swen E. Gaudl, Klaus P. Jantke, Rainer Knauf

Knowledge Engineering with Didactic Knowledge — First Steps towards an Ultimate Goal — [PDF]
Rainer Knauf, Ronald Boeck, Yoshitaka Sakurai, Setsuo Tsuruta

Games and Entertainment

Special Track on Games and Entertainment — [PDF]
G. Michael Youngblood, Klaus P. Jantke

A Generalized Heuristic for Can't Stop — [PDF]
James R. Glenn, Christian J. Aloi

Dynamic Updating of Navigation Meshes in Response to Changes in a Game World — [PDF]
D. Hunter Hale, G. Michael Youngblood

Making User-Defined Interactive Game Characters BEHAVE — [PDF]
Frederick W. P. Heckel, G. Michael Youngblood, D. Hunter Hale

Learning Human Behavior from Observation for Gaming Applications — [PDF]
Christopher Lawrence Moriarty, Avelino J. Gonzalez

Identifying User Destinations in VirtualWorlds — [PDF]
Fahad Shah, Philip Bell, Gita Sukthankar

Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems — [PDF]
Arthur Ward, Chas Murray

Incorporating an Affective Behavior Model into an Educational Game — [PDF]
Yasmín Hernández, Enrique Sucar, Cristina Conati

Promoting Reflection and its Effect on Learning in a Programming Tutor — [PDF]
Amruth N. Kumar

Measuring Hint Level in Open Cloze Questions — [PDF]
Juan Pino, Maxine Eskenazi

From SDK to xPST: A New Way to Overlay a Tutor on Existing Software — [PDF]
Stephen Bruce Blessing, Stephen B. Gilbert, Liz A. Blankenship, Bhavesh Sanghvi

Semantics, Ontologies, and Computational Linguistics

Special Track on Semantics, Ontologies, and Computational Linguistics — [PDF]
Ismail Biskri, Anca Pascu, Anca Pascu, Richard Dapoigny, Richard Dapoigny, Florence LePriol, Florence LePriol

Are Ontologies Involved in Natural Language Processing? — [PDF]
Maryvonne Abraham

Organizing Knowledge as an Ontology of the Domain of Resilient Computing by Means of Natural Language Processing - An Experience Report - — [PDF]
Algirdas Avizienis, Gintare Grigonyte, Johann Haller, Friedrich von Henke, Thorsten Liebig, Olaf Noppens

Automatic Analysis of Author Judgment in Scientific Articles Based on Semantic Annotation — [PDF]
Marc Bertin, Iana Atanassova, Jean-Pierre Descles

Toward a Formal Ontology of Time from Aspects — [PDF]
Jean-Pierre Desclés, Aurelien Arena

The Implementation of Arabic Subject Markers in the LKB System — [PDF]
Adel Jebali

Combinators' Introduction: an Enhanced Algorithm — [PDF]
Adam Joly, Ismaïl Biskri, Boucif Amar Bensaber

Obtaining Hidden Relations from a Syntactically Annotated Corpus - From Word Relationships to Clause Relationships — [PDF]
Oldrich Kruza, Vladislav Kubon

Sentence Simplification Based Ontology Mapping — [PDF]
Lu Lu, Nandan Parameswaran

Exceptions in Ontologies: Deducing Properties from Topological Axioms — [PDF]
Christophe Jouis, Bassel Habib, Jie Liu

Uncertain Reasoning

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning — [PDF]
Kevin Grant, Luis Enrique Sucar

On the Use of Guaranteed Possibility Measures in Possibilistic Networks — [PDF]
Amen Ajroud, Salem Benferhat, Mohamed Nazih Omri, Habib Youssef

Join Tree Propagation Utilizing Both Arc Reversal and Variable Elimination — [PDF]
Cory James Butz, Ken Konkel, Pawan Lingras

Constraint-based Approach to Discovery of Inter Module Dependencies in Modular Bayesian Networks — [PDF]
Patrick de Oude, Gregor Pavlin

Probabilistic Reasoning at Optimum Entropy with the MEcore System — [PDF]
Marc Finthammer, Christoph Beierle, Benjamin Berger, Gabriele Kern-Isberner

Mining Default Rules from Statistical Data — [PDF]
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Matthias Thimm, Marc Finthammer, Jens Fisseler

Dynamic Programming Approximations for Partially Observable Stochastic Games — [PDF]
Akshat Kumar, Shlomo Zilberstein

Modeling Belief Change on Epistemic States — [PDF]
Jianbing Ma, Weiru Liu

Bayesian Knowledge Fusion — [PDF]
Eugene Santos, John T. Wilkinson, Eunice E. Santos

Multiagent Bayesian Forecasting of Time Series with Graphical Models — [PDF]
Yang Xiang, James Smith, Jeff Kroes

A Comparative Study of Variable Elimination and Arc Reversal in Bayesian Network Inference — [PDF]
Cory James Butz, Junying Chen, Ken Konkel, Pawan Lingras

A Surprise-based Qualitative Calculus — [PDF]
Zina M. Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Alioune Ngom

Query Processing and Optimization for Logic Programs with Certainty Constraints — [PDF]
Jinzan Lai, Nematollaah Shiri

Prime Implicants and Belief Update — [PDF]
Laurent Perrussel, Jerusa Marchi, Guilherme Bittencourt

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