Tuesday 4/6/1999 ================ Jeff Sherwin Still JAM'n and loving it. Java Agents for Meta Learning. DataMining over distributed data sites. Personal Research includes problems with sensitive data, network architecture, bridging agents, and much much more. I even have pictures (YUM). Sonya Allin Automatic Acquisition of Hyponyms from Large Text Corpora, Marti A. Hearst. From the 14th Int'l Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes France, July 1992. Janak Parekh Lenat, Doug. The Dimensions of Context Space. Cycorp, 1998. I found a very interesting paper at http://www.cyc.com/publications.html. It's a company that has been assembling a common knowledge database. They discuss the idea of "context" space, e.g. if some says 'I want chips', how to encode the idea that the user would be referring to 'potato' chips. Thursday 4/8/1999 ================= Melissa Holcombe "A Proposal for Word Sense Disambiguation Using Conceptual Distance" Eneko Agirre and German Rigau http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9510003 Ilya Gayinsky "Using generative models for handwritten digit recognition" by Michael Revow, Christopher K. I. Williams, Geoffrey E. Hinton ".. describe a method of recognizing handwritten digits by fitting generative models that are built from deformable B-spline with Gaussian 'ink generators' spaced along the length of the spline." Lalitha Agnihotri "A tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and Selected Application in Speech Recognition" It was published in 1989 in Proc. of the IEEE, Vol. 77, No. 2. I would possibly present also a set of scenarios (applications) that HMMs have been used for (A brief lit. survey in the state of the art in HMMs). Daniel Cowgill Tuesday 4/13/1999 ================= Jack Huang A Data Mining Framework for Building Intrusion Detection Models W. Lee, S. J. Stolfo, K. Mok To appear in Proc. 1999 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 1999. Eric talked about the distinction between induction and empirical validation in general. The camera broke. That guy wouldn't stop drilling on the door. Naveed Hasan Second Naive Physics Manifesto Thursday 4/15/1999 ================== Matthew Miller More JAM: "Automatic intrusion detection using NFR" Jason Barden "Experiments in parameter learning using temporal diffs" Chess Alberto Goldberger "Face recognition using unsupervised feature extraction" Patrick Johnson "Efficient boosting algorithm for combining different preferences" Tuesday 4/20/99 =============== Naoki Npakashima "Using genetic algorithm to find thchnical trading rules." Araik Grigoryan "Genetic evolution and co-evolution of game strategies" by John Koza From: Scott Lei "Learning Methods for Combining Linguistic Indicators to Classify Verbs" by Eric V. Siegel. Fourteen linguistically-motivated numerical indicators are evaluated for their ability to categorize verbs as either states or events. In order to improve classification performance, machine learning techniques decision tree induction, a genetic algortithm, and log-linear regression are employeed to combine multiple indicators. Anastasio Kesoglidis "Automated Intelligent Pilots for Combat Flight Simulation" by Jones/Laird/Nielsen/Coulter/Kenny/Koss AI Magazine,Spring 1999 Thursday 4/22/99 ================ Matt Demanett Case-Based Reasoning (book) Janet Kolodner, 1993. Case-based reasoning attempts to understand a new situation (and explain it, or form a plan) by recalling and adapting specific remembered scenarios (cases). A case-based reasoner learns by aquiring new cases, and by improving its classification (for recall) of those it has. Jean My paper is on Artificial Life, it is the one I borrowed from you by John R. Koza. It will essentially be an overview of what ALIFE is, why people do it, whether it is useful + some specifics about Koza's implementation. Blah, Blah, Blah. Blaine A Bell Michelle Zhou's Thesis on the Automated Generation of Visual Discourse. From: "Greg C. Estren" "Collaboration and interdependence among limited agents" Tuesday April 27 ================ Zack "Integrating temporal and qualitative temporal reasoning" by Henry Kautz Scott Susser A bayesian framework for semantic content characterization (of scenes of movies) by Vasconcelos and Andrew-Lippman Scott dressed up for this presentation! David Kalina Evolution of emergent cooperative behavior using genetic programming by Koza Sameer Shroff Using genetic programming motifs to classify protein sequences by Koza et al ----------------- NOT DURING CLASS: ----------------- Simon Shamoun "Discourse Processing and Commonsense Plans" by Daine J. Litman and James F. Allen Russel Steinthal Cased-based approaches to modeling legal expertise Jonathan Harris Spiegel "A Bayesian Method for the Induction of Probabalistic Networks from Data." Jared David Lamm "Software agents for completing patterns and constructing user interfaces." Jiawei Fang Datamining on National Basketball Association data