Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
Edited by Roman Barták, Keith Brawner
Sarasota, Florida, USA. May 19–22 2019. Published by The AAAI Press, Palo Alto, California.
Main Track
An Empirical Evaluation of the Effect of Adversarial Labels on Classifier Accuracy Estimation / 2
Alexandra Clifford, Cassian Corey, John T. Holodnak
Towards Predicting Difficulty of Reading Comprehension Questions / 8
Takshak Desai, Dan I. Moldovan
Front-to-Front Bidirectional Best-First Search Reconsidered / 14
Leopold E. Mayer, Kurt D. Krebsbach
Spatially Biased Random Forests / 20
Benjamin Mitchell, John Sheppard
Influence-Based Independence / 26
özgür L. özçep, Felix Kuhr, Ralf Möller
Productive and Profitable Cluster Hire / 32
Parth Patel, Kalyani Selvarajah, Ziad Kobti, Mehdi Kargar
Detecting the Onset of a Network Layer DoS Attack with a Graph-Based Approach / 38
Ramesh Paudel, Peter Harlan, William Eberle
Eliminating Sycophants to Improve Authorship Attribution / 44
Ivan Petrovic, Smiljana Petrovic, Ileana Palesi, Anthony Calise
Improving Safety in Reinforcement Learning Using Model-Based Architectures and Human Intervention / 50
Bharat Prakash, Mohit Khatwani, Nicholas Waytowich, Tinoosh Mohsenin
Explaining Reward Functions in Markov Decision Processes / 56
Jacob Russell, Eugene Santos
A Contextual-Based Framework for Opinion Formation / 62
Eugene Santos, Clement Nyanhongo
Automatic Adaptation to Sensor Replacements / 68
Yuan Shi, T. K. Satish Kumar, Craig A. Knoblock
Generative NNI Transformation Strategies in Binary Trees Using Reinforcement Learning / 74
Shirin Shirvani, Manfred Huber
A Novel Combining-Based Method of Pool Generation for Ensemble Regression Problems / 80
Robson D. A. Timoteo, Daniel C. Cunha, Paulo S. G. De Mattos Neto
Learning Behavioral Memory Representations from Observation / 86
Josiah Wong, Avelino J. Gonzalez
Classification of Semantic Relations between Pairs of Nominals Using Transfer Learning / 92
Linrui Zhang, Dan Moldovan
Visual Attention Model for Cross-Sectional Stock Return Prediction and End-to-End Multimodal Market Representation Learning / 98
Ran Zhao, Yuntian Deng, Mark Dredze, Arun Verma, David Rosenberg, Amanda Stent
Short Papers
Improving File Compression Using Elementary Cellular Automata / 104
John Albury, Richard Wales, Annie S. Wu
Human-in-the-Loop Learning of Qualitative Preference Models / 108
Joseph Allen, Ahmed Moussa, Xudong Liu
Balanced k-Nearest Neighbors / 112
Brian Cook, Manfred Huber
Distributed Coalition Formation with Heterogeneous Agents for Task Allocation / 116
Ayan Dutta, Emily University of North Florida Czarnecki, Asai Asaithambi, Vladimir Ufimtsev
Using EEG Features and Machine Learning to Predict Gifted Children / 120
Ramla Ghali, Ange Tato, Roger Nkambou
An Extensible and Personalizable Multi-Modal Trip Planner / 124
Xudong Liu, Christian Fritz, Matthew Klenk
Learning Optimal and Near-Optimal Lexicographic Preference Lists / 128
Ahmed Moussa, Xudong Liu
Biologically Extending the Gen 2 ANN Model / 132
Jesse Roberts, Douglas Talbert
Top K Hypotheses Selection on a Knowledge Graph / 136
Kexuan Sun, Krishna Akhil Maddali, Shriraj Salian, T. K. Satish Kumar
Comparing Goodness of Fit of Preference Models / 140
Sawyer Welden, John A. Doucette
Emergence in Multi-Agent Systems / 144
Yan Zhao, Eugene Santos
Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing
Beyond Word Embeddings: Dense Representations for Multi-Modal Data / 149
Luis Armona, José P. González-Brenes, Ralph Edezhath
Convolutional Ladder Networks for Legal NERC and the Impact of Unsupervised Data in Better Generalizations / 155
Cristian Cardellino, Laura Alonso Alemany, Milagro Teruel, Serena Villata, Santiago Marro
Incendiary News Detection / 161
Enis Alonso Berk, Elena Filatova
Using Correlation for Labelset Selection in Multi-Label Classification of Users Reactions / 167
Zacarias Curi, Alceu de Souza Britto Jr, Emerson Cabrera Paraiso
Different Flavors of Attention Networks for Argument Mining / 173
Johanna Frau, Milagro Teruel, Laura Alonso Alemany, Serena Villata
Effect of Domain Corpus Size and LSA Vector Dimension: A Study in Assessing Student Generated Short Texts in Virtual Internships Without Participant Data / 179
Dipesh Gautam, Zhiqiang Cai, Vasile Rus
Does Outrage Signal Cyber Attacks? Predicting "Bad Behavior" from Sentiment in Online Content / 185
Kristy Hollingshead, Bonnie J. Dorr, Adam Dalton, Meg Barton
Learning Patterns of Assonance for Authorship Attribution of Historical Texts / 191
Lubomir Ivanov
Towards Concept Map Based Free Student Answer Assessment / 197
Nabin Maharjan, Vasile Rus
Implicit Discourse Relation Classification with Syntax-Aware Contextualized Word Representations / 203
Diana Nicoleta Popa, Julien Perez, James Henderson, Eric Gaussier
Semantic Labeling of English Texts with Ontological Categories Employing Recurrent Networks / 209
Roberta Caroline Rodrigues Silva, Alcione de Paiva Oliveira, Alexandra Moreira
Exploiting Textual, Visual, and Product Features for Predicting the Likeability of Movies / 215
Mahsa Shafaei, Adrián Pastor López-Monroy, Thamar Solorio
Using Linguistic Context to Learn Folksonomies from Task-Oriented Dialogues / 221
Gregory Moro Puppi Wanderley, Emerson Cabrera Paraiso
Investigating the Relationship between Multi-Party Linguistic Entrainment, Team Characteristics and the Perception of Team Social Outcomes / 227
Mingzhi Yu, Diane Litman, Susannah Paletz
Short Papers
How Animacy and Information Status Determine Word Order in Translation of the Passive Voice / 233
Ashli Fain, Reva Freedman
An Emotion Detection System for Cantonese / 237
John Lee
Classification of Spontaneous Speech of Individuals with Dementia Based on Automatic Prosody Analysis Using Support Vector Machines (SVM) / 241
Roelant Ossewaarde, Roel Jonkers, Fedor Jalvingh, Roelien Bastiaanse
Opinion Spam Detection with Attention-Based Neural Networks / 245
Zeinab Sedighi, Hossein Ebrahimpoor-Komleh, Ayoub Bagheri, Leila Kosseim
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence for Big Social Data
Investigation of Maxout Activations on Convolutional Neural Networks for Big Data Text Sentiment Analysis / 250
Gabriel Castaneda, Paul Morris, Joseph D. Prusa, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence in Games, Serious Games, and Multimedia
Hello, Narratives: Character Development in Automated Narrative Generation / 257
Matthew Alvarez, Rebeca E. Amaya, Kyle A. Benko, Jordan T. Martin, Rainer Knauf, Klaus P. Jantke, Avelino J. Gonzalez
How Do Players' Eye Movements Relate to Their Excitement in a VR Adaptive Game? / 264
Hamdi Ben Abdessalem, Maher Chaouachi, Marwa Boukadida, Claude Frasson
Measuring Presence and Performance in a Virtual Reality Police Use of Force Training Simulation Prototype / 270
Edward T. Garcia, Stephen G. Ware, Lewis J. Baker
A Deep Reinforcement Learn-Based FIFA Agent with Naive State Representations and Portable Connection Interfaces / 276
Matheus Prado Prandini Faria, Rita Maria Silva Julia, Lídia Bononi Paiva Tomaz
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence for Internet of Things and Fab Labs/Makerspaces
Short Paper
Learning Strategies for Resisting Power Attacks on Wi-Fi Direct Group Formation / 282
Arianit Maraj, Timothy Atkinson, Marius C. Silaghi
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Informatics
Gene Selection and Clustering of Breast Cancer Data / 287
Farzana Ahamed Bhuiyan, MD Bulbul Sharif, Paul Joshua Tinker, William Eberle, Douglas A. Talbert, Sheikh Khaled Ghafoor, Lewis Frey
Multi-Task Survival Analysis of Liver Transplantation Using Deep Learning / 293
Atefeh (Anna) Farzindar, Anirudh Kashi
A Comparison of Three Recommender Strategies for Facilitating Person-Centered Care in Nursing Homes / 299
Nathan Martindale, Gerald C. Gannod, Katherine M. Abbott, Kimberly Van Haitsma
Learning Semantic Relationships from Medical Codes / 305
Phillip Wallis, Padideh Danaee
A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Predictive Modeling of Medicare Payments to Physical Therapists / 311
Annie Wu, Xinliang Liu, Reamonn Norat
Special Track on Autonomous Robots and Agents
Dynamic Action Selection in OpenAI Using Spiking Neural Networks / 318
Chad Peters, Terrence C. Stewart, Robert L. West, Babak Esfandiari
Short Paper
Multi-Robot Informative Path Planning in Unknown Environments Through Continuous Region Partitioning / 324
Ayan Dutta, Amitabh Bhattacharya, O. Patrick Kreidl, Anirban Ghosh, Prithviraj Dasgupta
Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning
Similarity Measures for Case-Based Retrieval of Natural Language Argument Graphs in Argumentation Machines / 329
Ralph Bergmann, Mirko Lenz, Stefan Ollinger, Maximilian Pfister
What Is the Next Step? Supporting Architectural Room Configuration Process with Case-Based Reasoning and Recurrent Neural Networks / 335
Viktor Eisenstadt, Klaus-Dieter Althoff
A Reachability-Based Complexity Measure for Case-Based Reasoners / 341
Devi Ganesan, Sutanu Chakraborti
Exploiting Markov Random Fields to Enhance Retrieval in Case-Based Reasoning / 347
Luigi Portinale
C2C Trace Retrieval: Fast Classification Using Class-to-Class Weighting / 353
Xiaomeng Ye
Short Paper
Case Representation and Similarity Modeling for Non-Specific Musculoskeletal Disorders - a Case-Based Reasoning Approach / 359
Amar Jaiswal, Kerstin Bach, Ingebrigt Meisingset, Ottar Vasseljen
Special Track on Data Mining
Experimental Comparison of Online Anomaly Detection Algorithms / 364
Cynthia Freeman, Jonathan Merriman, Ian Beaver, Abdullah Mueen
Content-Dependent Versus Content-Independent Features for Gender and Age Range Identification in Different Types of Texts / 370
M. Zakaria Kurdi
Opening Up the Black Box: Auditing Google's Top Stories Algorithm / 376
Emma Lurie, Eni Mustafaraj
Discovering Suspicious Patterns Using a Graph Based Approach / 382
Sirisha Velampalli, Lenin Mookiah, William Eberle
Short Papers
Detecting Slow HTTP POST DoS Attacks Using Netflow Features / 387
Chad Calvert, Clifford Kemp, Taghi Khoshgoftaar, Maryam Najafabadi
Adaptation of Multivariate Concept to Multi-Way Agglomerative Clustering for Hierarchical Aspect Aggregation / 391
Tamasha Malepathirana, Rashindrie Perera, Yasasi Abeysinghe, Yumna Albar, Uthayasanker Thayasivam
Special Track on Intelligent Learning Technologies
Predicting Learners' Performance Using EEG and Eye Tracking Features / 396
Asma Ben Khedher, Imène Jraidi, Claude Frasson
A Conversational Intelligent Agent for Career Guidance and Counseling / 402
Andrew Hampton, Vasile Rus, Frank Andrasik, Benjamin Nye, Art Graesser
Short Paper
Synthesis of Limit Problems for Single-Variable Calculus / 408
Blake Glueck, Chris Alvin
Special Track on Recommender Systems
Managing Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems with Personalized Re-Ranking / 413
Himan Abdollahpouri, Robin Burke, Bamshad Mobasher
Convolutional Adversarial Latent Factor Model for Recommender System / 419
Felipe Soares Da Costa, Peter Dolog
Modeling the Dynamics of User Preferences for Sequence-Aware Recommendation Using Hidden Markov Models / 425
Farzad Eskandanian, Bamshad Mobasher
Short Paper
Expanding Controllability of Hybrid Recommender Systems: From Positive to Negative Relevance / 431
Behnam Rahdari, Chun-Hua Tsai, Peter Brusilovsky
Special Track on Semantic, Logics, Information Extraction and AI
Flexible Approach for Computer-Assisted Reading and Analysis of Texts / 436
Ismaïl Biskri, Mohamed Hassani
On the Winograd Schema: Situating Language Understanding in the Data-Information-Knowledge Continuum / 442
Walid Saba
Short Paper
Identifying the Focus of Negation Using Discourse Structure / 448
Zahra Sarabi, Eduardo Blanco
Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning
Reliable Discretization of Deterministic Equations in Bayesian Networks / 453
Alessandro Antonucci
On Rational Monotony and Weak Rational Monotony for Inference Relations Induced by Sets of Minimal C-Representations / 458
Christoph Beierle, Steven Kutsch, Henning Breuers
Relational Forward Backward Algorithm for Multiple Queries / 464
Marcel Gehrke, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller
Axiomatic Evaluation of Epistemic Forgetting Operators / 470
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Tanja Bock, Christoph Beierle, Kai Sauerwald
Penalty Logic-Based Representation of C-Revision / 476
Safia Laaziz, Younes Zeboudj, Salem Benferhat, Faiza Haned
Linear Time and Space Algorithm for Computing all the Fagin-Halpern Conditional Beliefs Generated From Consonant Belief Functions / 482
Lalintha G. Polpitiya, Kamal Premaratne, Manohar N. Murthi
Hierarchical Classification With Bayesian Networks and Chained Classifiers / 488
Jonathan Serrano-Pérez, Luis Enrique Sucar
Integrating Typed Model Counting into First-Order Maximum Entropy Computations and the Connection to Markov Logic Networks / 494
Marco Wilhelm, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Marc Finthammer, Christoph Beierle
Short Papers
On the Tree Structure of Deep Convolutional Sum-Product Networks / 500
Cory Butz, Andre Lobo Teixeira, Andre Dos Santos, Jhonatan Oliveira
Towards Interactive Causal Relation Discovery Driven by an Ontology / 504
Melanie Munch, Juliette Dibie, Pierre-Henri Wuillemin, Cristina Manfredotti
Poster Abstracts
FLAIRS-32 Poster Abstracts / 509
Roman Barták, Keith Brawner
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