Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference

Edited by R. Charles Murray and Philip M. McCarthy

Palm Beach, Florida. May 18–20, 2011. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California.

This proceedings is also available in book format.

Preface
Philip M. McCarthy, Chas Murray

Florida AI Research Society
Philip M. McCarthy, Chas Murray

FLAIRS Conference Committees
Philip M. McCarthy, Chas Murray

Invited Talk Abstracts
Thomas K. Landauer, Rosalind W. Picard, David S. Touretzky, Ryan Baker, Robert C. Holte, Amanda J. Stent, Daniel Vanderveken

Main Conference

Solving Graph Coloring Problems Using Cultural Algorithms
Reza Abbasian, Malek Mouhoub, Amin Jula

A Novel Constraint Model for Parallel Planning
Roman Bartak

Feature Level Sensor Fusion for Improved Fault Detection in MCM Systems for Ocean Turbines
Janell Duhaney, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, John C. Sloan

Comparing Matrix Decomposition Methods for Meta-Analysis and Reconstruction of Cognitive Neuroscience Results
Kevin Gold, Catherine Havasi, Michael Anderson, Kenneth Arnold

A Method of Virtual Camera Selection Using Soft Constraints
Michael Janzen, Michael Horsch, Eric Neufeld

Automatic Detection of User’ Uncertainty in Problem Solving Task: a Multimodal Approach
Imène Jraidi, Maher Chaouachi, Claude Frasson

Optimizing Hidden Markov Models for Ocean Feature Detection
Sandeep Kumar, Sergio Jimenez Celorrio, Frederic Py, Deepak Khemani, Kanna Rajan

Exploring Interaction Between Images and Texts for Web Image Categorization
Lei Li, Wenting Lu, Jingxuan Li, Tao Li, Honggang Zhang, Jun Guo

Prime Normal Forms in Belief Merging
Jerusa Marchi, Laurent Perrussel

Using Part-Of Relations for Discovering Causality
Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Christopher Welty, Jerry Hobbs, Eduard Hovy

Real-Time Planning for Covering an Initially-Unknown Spatial Environment
Vikas Shivashankar, Rajiv Jain, Ugur Kuter, Dana Nau

How Many Software Metrics Should be Selected for Defect Prediction?
Huanjing Wang, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Naeem Seliya

Differentiating Between “Functional” and “Semantic” Roles in a High-Level Conceptual Data Modeling Language
Gian Piero Zarri

Consensus Clustering + Meta Clustering = Multiple Consensus Clustering
Yi Zhang, Tao Li

Geometric Public Announcement Logics
Can Baskent

Sporcle Goes AI
Cameron Carpenter, Geoff Sutcliffe

A Multiagent System for Modeling Democratic Elections
Guillermo De Ita, Meliza Contreras Gonzalez, Isaac Chantes Quechol

Preference Elicitation and Winner Determination in Multi-Attribute Auctions
Farnaz Ghavamifar, Samira Sadaoui, Malek Mouhoub

Using Decision Trees to Find Patterns in an Ophthalmology Dataset
Susan Imberman, Irene Ludwig, Sarah Zelikovitz

Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Agent Learning
Ozkan Ozcan, Jonathan Alt, Christian J. Darken

Handling of Numeric Ranges with the Subdue System
Oscar E. Romero A., Jesus A. Gonzalez B., Lawrence B. Holder

Answer Set Optimization with Dependence Based Priority Propagagtion
Zhizheng Zhang

Special Track — Affective Computing

Special Track on Affective Computing
Sidney D'Mello, Rafael A. Calvo

Cognitive Load Theory: Implications for Affective Computing
Slava Kalyuga

EmoCog: Computational Integration of Emotion and Cognitive Architecture
Jerry Lin, Marc Spraragen, Jim Blythe, Michael Zyda

No Peanuts! Affective Cues for the Virtual Bartender
Marcin Skowron, Hannes Pirker, Stefan Rank, Georgios Paltoglou, Junghyun Ahn, Stephane Gobron

Affective Text: Generation Strategies and Emotion Measurement Issues
Ielka van der Sluis, Chris Mellish, Gavin Doherty

Emotionally Responsive General Artificial Agent Simulation
Dreama Jain, Ziad Kobti

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

Special Track on AI, Cognitive Semantics, Computational Linguistics, and Logics
Ismail Biskri, Florence Le Priol, Roger Nkambou, Anca Pascu

From a Cognitive Model Towards an Assistive and Augmentative Written Language
Maryvonne Abraham

EcoLexicon and FunGramKB: Applying COREL to Domain-Specific Knowledge
Pilar León Araúz, Arianne Reimerink

Agreement Asymmetries in Arabic from a Categorical Perspective
Ismaïl Biskri, Adel Jebali

The Utility of Combinatory Categorial Grammar in Designing a Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Languages
Simon Delamarre

Aspecto-Temporal Representation for Discourse Analysis: An Example of Formal Computation
Jean-Pierre Desclés, Hee-Jin Ro

Building Integrated Opinion Delivery Environment
Boris Galitsky, Josep Lluis de la Rose, Gabor Dobrocsi

Mapping Syntactic to Semantic Generalizations of Linguistic Parse Trees
Boris Lluis de la Galitsky, Josep Lluis Lluis de la de la Rose, Gabor Lluis de la Dobrocsi

Combination of Topology and Nonmonotonic Logics for Typicality in a Scientific Field: Paleoanthropology
Christophe Jouis, Claude Jouis, Franck Guy, Bassel Habib, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia

Studying Properties of Czech Complex Sentences from an Annotated Corpus
Vladislav Kubon, Marketa Lopatkova

Image and Text Mining Based on Contextual Exploration from Multiple Points of View
Florence Le Priol

Reasoning with Annotations of Texts
Yue Ma, François Lévy, Sudeep Ghimire

Rational Interaction in Dialogues: Ingredients for Success)
Michel A. Paquette

Towards a Formal Discourse Pragmatics
Daniel Vanderveken

Computational Semantics Requires Computation
Yorick Wilks

Toward a New Language Engineering
Ismaïl Biskri, Jean Guy Meunier, Adam Joly, Marc Andre Rochette

Special Track — Applied Natural Language Processing

Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing
Mihai Lintean, Vasile Rus

Shared Experiences, Shared Representations, and the Implications for Applied Natural Language Processing
Amanda J. Stent

Automatic Reduction of a Document-Derived Noun Vocabulary
Sven Anderson, S. Rebecca Thomas, Camden Segal, Yu Wu

Commonsense Knowledge Extraction Using Concepts Properties
Eduardo Blanco, Hakki Cankaya, Dan Moldovan

Some Issues on Detecting Negation from Text
Eduardo Blanco, Dan Moldovan

Automatic Natural Language Processing and the Detection of Reading Skills and Reading Comprehension
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Philip McCarthy, Travis Lamkin, G. Tanner Jackson, Joseph P. Magliano, Danielle S. McNamara

Co-Occurrence-Based Error Correction Approach to Word Segmentation
Ekawat Chaowicharat, Kanlaya Naruedomkul

Simulating Human Ratings on Word Concreteness
Shi Feng, Zhiqiang Cai, Scott Crossley, Danielle S McNamara

Domain Independent Knowledge Base Population from Structured and Unstructured Data Sources
Michelle Gregory, Liam McGrath, Eric Belanga Bell, Kelly O'Hara, Kelly Domico

The Hierarchy of Detective Fiction: A Gramulator Analysis
Travis Alan Lamkin, Philip McCarthy

Dissimilarity Kernels for Paraphrase Identification
Mihai Lintean, Vasile Rus

Given Bilingual Terminology in Statistical Machine Translation: MWE-Sensitve Word Alignment and Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process-Based Translation Model Smoothing
Tsuyoshi Okita, Andy Way

Student Speech Act Classification Using Machine Learning
Travis Rasor, Andrew Olney, Sidney D'Mello

Automated Assessment of Paragraph Quality: Introduction, Body, and Conclusion Paragraphs
Rod Roscoe, Scott Crossley, Jennifer Weston, Danielle McNamara

Fairy Tales and ESL Texts: An Analysis of Linguistic Features Using the Gramulator
Rachel M. Rufenacht, Philip M. McCarthy, Travis A Lamkin

A Linguistic Analysis of Student-Generated Paraphrases
Vasile Rus, Shi Feng, Russell Brandon, Scott Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara

Evaluating Semantic Metrics on Tasks of Concept Similarity
Hansen Andrew Schwartz, Fernando Gomez

Event Extraction Approach for French Language
Oussama Sellmi

Using Centrality Algorithms on Directed Graphs for Synonym Expansion
Ravi Som Sinha, Rada Flavia Mihalcea

Disambiguation and Filtering Methods in Using Web Knowledge for Coreference Resolution
Olga Uryupina, Massimo Poesio, Claudio Giuliano, Kateryna Tymoshenko

Hybrid Approach Combining Machine Learning and a Rule-Based Expert System for Text Categorization
Julio Villena-Román, Sonia Collada-Pérez, Sara Lana-Serrano, José Carlos González-Cristóbal

Improving Spoken Dialogue Understanding Using Phonetic Mixture Models
William Yang Wang, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, David Traum

Number of Words Versus Number Ideas: Finding a Better Predictor of Writing Quality
Jennifer L. Weston, Scott A. Crossley, Philip M. McCarthy, Danielle S. McNamara

Using Latent Semantic Analysis and Word Matching to Enhance Bridging Reading Strategy Identification
Martha Brhane, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke

Evaluating Conversational Characters Created through Question Generation
Grace Chen, Emma Tosch, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, David Traum

Opinion Extraction and Classification Based on Semantic Similarities
Aymen Elkhlifi, Rihab Bouchlaghem, Rim Faiz

Evaluation of Ontology Knowledge in Chinese Classical Poetry Classification
Chengyu Alex Fang, Wan Yin Claie Li

Differential Linguistic Features in U.S. Immigration Newspaper Articles: A Contrastive Corpus Analysis Using the Gramulator
Barbara E. Haertl, Philip M. McCarthy

A Contrastive Corpus Analysis of Modern Art Criticism and Photography Criticism
Arthur Hullender, Philip M. McCarthy

Statistical Machine Translation with Factored Translation Model: MWEs, Separation of Affixes, and Others
Tsuyoshi Okita, Alexandru Ceausu, Andy Way

Geotagging Tweets Using Their Content
Sharon Myrtle Paradesi

Mining Chat Conversations: The Next Frontier
Sowmya Ramachandran, Randy Jensen, Oscar Bascara, Tamitha Carpenter, Todd Denning, Shaun Sucillon

Intentional Analysis of Medical Conversations for Community Engagement
Saurav Sahay

Bias in Hard News Articles from Fox News and MSNBC: An Empirical Assessment Using the Gramulator
Brock Terwilleger, Philip McCarthy, Travis Lamkin

Special Track — Artificial Intelligence Education

Special Track on Artificial Intelligence Education
Todd Neller, Jim Marshall

Myro-C++: An Open Source C++ Library for CS Education Using AI
John Robert Hoare, Richard E. Edwards, Bruce J. MacLennan, Lynne E. Parker

A New Set of Eyes and a New Pair of Legs: A Robust Learning Environment for Advanced High School Robotics
Jeremy Karnowski, David S. Touretzky

Learning about Machine Learning: An Extended Assignment to Classify Twitter Accounts
Eni Mustafaraj, Scott D. Anderson

Rook Jumping Maze Generation for AI Education
Todd William Neller

An Evolutionary Algorithm for Assigning Students to Courses
Christine Ann Shannon, Drew McKinney

Special Track — Case-Based Reasoning

Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning
Juan A. Recio-García, Luc Lamontagne

Supplemental Case Acquisition Using Mixed-Initiative Control
Michael William Floyd, Babak Esfandiari

An Efficient Random Decision Tree Algorithm for Case-Based Reasoning Systems
Tor Gunnar Houeland

Extending Case-Based Planning with Behavior Trees
Ricardo Palma, Pedro Antonio González-Calero, Marco Antonio Gómez-Martín, Pedro Pablo Gómez-Martín

Active and Interactive Discovery of Goal Selection Knowledge
Jay Powell, Matthew Molineaux, David William Aha

Happy Movie: A Group Recommender Application in Facebook
Lara Quijano-Sánchez, Juan A. Recio-Garcia, Belén Díaz-Agudo, Guillermo Jimenez-Diaz

Special Track — Cognition, AI, and Human Computer Interaction

Special Track on Cognition and Artificial Intelligence
Stephen W. Briner, Nicholas Duran

How Artefacts Influence the Construction of Communications and Contexts during Collaboration in an Agile Software Development Team
Nik Nailah Binti Abdullah, Helen Sharp, Shinichi Honiden

What Determines Difficulty of Transport Puzzles?
Petr Jarušek, Radek Pelánek

Difficulty Rating of Sudoku Puzzles by a Computational Model
Radek Pelánek

Integrating Psychological Behaviors in the Rational Process of Conversational Assistant Agents
Jean-Paul Sansonnet, François Bouchet

Activity States Framework as an Experimental Approach to Studying, and Modeling Context in Web-Mediated Collaborative Dialogs
Nik Nailah Binti Abdullah, Samuel Mendes, Stefano A. Cerri, Shinichi Honiden

A Cognitive Tutoring Agent with Automatic Reasoning Capabilities
Usef Faghihi, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Roger Nkambou

Human-Like Understanding of Two-Line Figures
Steven Stenberg Hansen, David S Touretzky

Special Track — Data Mining

Special Track on Data Mining
David Bisant, William Eberle

Robustness of Filter-Based Feature Ranking: A Case Study
Wilker Altidor, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Jason Van Hulse

Efficient Descriptive Community Mining
Martin Atzmueller, Folke Mitzlaff

Learning Parameters of the K-Means Algorithm From Subjective Human Annotation
Haimonti Dutta, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Austin Lee, Axinia Radeva, Boyi Xie, David Waltz

Evolutionary Churn Prediction in Mobile Networks Using Hybrid Learning
V. Yeshwanth, V. Vimal Raj, M. Saravanan

Graph-Based Knowledge Discovery: Compression versus Frequency
William Eberle, Lawrence B. Holder

Utility Driven Clustering
Prabakararaj Swapna Raj, Balaraman Ravindran

Special Track — Games and Entertainment

Special Track on Games and Entertainment
D. Hunter Hale, Kevin Gold

Learning Opponent Strategies through First Order Induction
Katie Long Genter, Santiago Ontanon, Ashwin Ram

Supporting End-User Authoring of Alternate Reality Games with Cross-Location Compatibility
Sanjeet Hajarnis, Chinmay Barve, Devika Karnik, Mark Riedl

Failure Detection and Dynamic Extensions for Behavior-Based Subsumption
Frederick W. P. Heckel, G. Michael Youngblood

Special Track — Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Bob Hausmann, Rania Hodhod, G. Tanner Jackson

Learning a Tutorial Dialogue Policy for Delayed Feedback
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Eun Young Ha, Michael Wallis, Mladen Vouk, James Lester

Exploring the Effects of Errors in Assessment and Time Requirements of Learning Objects in a Peer-Based Intelligent Tutoring System
John Champaign, Robin Cohen

Patterns of Word Usage in Expert Tutoring Sessions: Verbosity versus Quality
Sidney D'Mello

Impact of Word Sense Disambiguation on Ordering Dictionary Definitions in Vocabulary Learning Tutors
Kevin Dela Rosa, Maxine Eskenazi

A Theoretical and Empirical Approach in Assessing Motivational Factors: From Serious Games To an ITS
Lotfi Derbali, Pierre Chalfoun, Claude Frasson

Motivational Impacts of a Game-Based Intelligent Tutoring System
G. Tanner Jackson, Danielle McNamara

Predicting Changes in Level of Abstraction in Tutor Responses to Students
Michael C. Lipschultz, Diane J. Litman, Pamela Jordan, Sandra Katz

Automated Scenario Adaptation in Support of Intelligent Tutoring Systems
James Michael Niehaus, Boyang Li, Mark Riedl

Text Box Size, Skill, and Iterative Practice in a Writing Task
Roxanne Benoit Raine, Lisa Mintz, Scott A. Crossley, Jianmin Dai, Danielle S. McNamara

Internal Usability Testing of Automated Essay Feedback in an Intelligent Writing Tutor
Rod Roscoe, Laura Varner, Zhiqiang Cai, Jennifer Weston, Scott Crossley, Danielle McNamara

The “Assistance” Model: Leveraging How Many Hints and Attempts a Student Needs
Yutao Wang, Neil T. Heffernan

Adding Abstractive Reflection to a Tutorial Dialog System
Arthur Ward, Diane Litman

Personalized Intelligent Tutoring System Using Reinforcement Learning
Ankit Malpani, Balaraman Ravindran, Hema Murthy

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

Special Track on Ontologies and Social Semantic Web for Intelligent Educational Systems
Darina Dicheva, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Roger Nkambou, Niels Pinkwart

Linking a Domain-Specific Ontology to a General Ontology
Pamela Faber, Ricardo Mairal, Pedro Magaña

Automated Transformation of SWRL Rules into Multiple-Choice Questions
Konstantinos Zoumpatianos, Andreas Papasalouros, Konstantinos Kotis

Ontological Support for Creative Writing
Darina Dicheva, Christo Dichev, Mariana Damova

Special Track — Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction

Special Track on Robotics and Human Interaction
Chutima Boonthum

The ARTSI Alliance: Using Robotics and AI to Recruit African-Americans to Computer Science Research
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, David S. Touretzky, Elva J. Jones, Thorna Humphries, Rebecca Caldwell

Winner Determination for Simultaneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation
Fang Tang, Spondon Saha

Navigating with the Tekkotsu Pilot
Owen Paul Watson, Dave Touretzky

Snackbot: Vision and Perception with Video and Audio Captures using GStreamer
Hasani Burns, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke

Translating Robotics Course Materials from Elite Research I Universities to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Xuejun Liang

Special Track —

Special Track — Uncertain Reasoning

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning
Laurent Perrussel, Cory Butz

Modeling Interventions Using Belief Causal Networks
Imen Boukhris, Zied Elouedi, Salem Benferhat

Learning Temporal Nodes Bayesian Networks
Pablo Hernandez-Leal, L. Enrique Sucar, Jesus A. Gonzalez

Optimizing Local Computation for Cooperative Probabilistic Reasoning
Karen Jin, Dan Wu

A Default Logical Semantics for Defeasible Argumentation
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Guillermo R Simari

Aggregating Forecasts Using a Learned Bayesian Network
Suzanne Mitchell Mahoney, Ethan Comstock, Bradley deBlois, Steven Darcy

Hybrid Value Iteration for POMDPs
Diego Maniloff, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz

Tuning a Bayesian Knowledge Base
Eugene Santos, Qi Gu, Eunice E. Santos

A Two-Step Method to Learn Multidimensional Bayesian Network Classifiers Based on Mutual Information Measures
Julio Cesar Zaragoza, Enrique Sucar, Eduardo Morales