Class meets 1:30 - 2:50 in EE 031. No class will be held Jan 5, Jan 7, or Mar 8 because I will be out of town. Extra classes are scheduled on Friday Jan 9 and Friday March 5.
Discussion leaders should:
| Date | Topic | Papers | Discussion Leaders |
| Mon Jan 5 | No class | ||
| Wed Jan 7 | No class | ||
| Fri Jan 9 | Natural Language Understanding: Speech Acts |
Stephen C. Levison 1985. Pragmatics, Cambridge
University Press. Chapter 5, Speech
Acts, through section 5.2, pages
226-246.
John R. Searle 1979. Expression and Meaning, Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2, Indirect Speech Acts, pages 30-57. |
Henry Kautz |
| Mon Jan 12 | NLU: Discourse Analysis |
Cohen, Philip R. and Perrault, C. Raymond 1979. Elements of a plan-based theory of speech acts. Cognitive Science 3(3):177--212. Allen, James F. and Perrault, C. Raymond 1980. Analyzing intention in utterances. Artificial Intelligence 15(3): 143-178. |
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| Wed Jan 14 |
Appelt, D. E. 1985. Planning English referring
expressions. Artificial Intelligence 26(1): 1-34.
Grosz, Barbara, and Candy Sidner, 1986, Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse, Computational Linguistics, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 175-204 Litman, Diane J. and Allen, James F 1990. Discourse processing and commonsense plans. Chapter 17 of Intentions in Communication, edited by Philip R. Cohen, Jerry Morgan, and Martha E. Pollack, The MIT Press, pages 365-388. |
1. Jeff Bigham 1
2. Danny Wyatt 1
3. Julie Letchner 1
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| Mon Jan 19 | Martin Luther King Day, no class | ||
| Wed Jan 21 | Mini-Tutorial on HMM's and DBN's |
Jensen, Introduction
to Bayesian Networks, Chapter 1, parts 1.1, 1.2, and 1.4 only
Rabiner, L. A tutorial on hidden Markov models and selected applications in speech recognition Jordan, M. Hidden Markov models. |
Tanzeem Choudhury |
| Mon Jan 26 | NLU: Cooperative Problem Solving |
The TRAINS Project. James F. Allen et al. Journal of Experimental and
Theoretical AI, 1995. Lesh, N., Rich, C., and Sidner, C. 1999. Using plan recognition in human-computer collaboration. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on User Modeling, 23-32. Using a Model of Collaborative Dialogue to Teach Procedural Tasks. Jeff Rickel, Neal Lesh, Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner and Abigail Gertner. Proceedings of 10th International Conference on AI in Education, 2001. |
4. Kate Deibel 1
5. Daniel Lowd 1
6. Sandra Fan 1
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| Wed Jan 28 | NLU: Probabilistic Models of Dialog |
Dialogue Act Modeling for Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Conversational Speech. Andreas Stolcke, Klaus Ries, Noah Coccaro, Elizabeth Shriberg, Rebecca Bates, Daniel Jurafsky, Paul Taylor, Rachel Martin, Marie Meteer, and Carol Van Ess-Dykema. Computational Linguistics 26:3, 2000. Conversation as Action Under Uncertainty. T. Paek and E. Horvitz. Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2000. |
8. Pradeep Shenoy 1
9. Jayant Madham 1 |
| Mon Feb 2 |
Speech repairs, intonational phrases and discourse markers: modeling speakers' utterances in spoken dialog, Peter Heeman and James Allen. Computational Linguistics, 25(4), 1999. Levin, E., and Pieraccini, R. (1997). A stochastic model of computer-human interaction for learning dialogue strategies. In Proc. 5th European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology. Optimizing Dialogue Management with Reinforcement Learning: Experiments with the NJFun System. Satinder Singh, Diane Litman, Michael Kearns and Marilyn Walker. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Vol. 16, 2002. |
7. Karthik Gopalratnam 1
10. Patrick Haluptzok 1
11. Xu Miao 1 |
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| Wed Feb 4 | Behavior Recognition:
Location Tracking |
Donald J. Patterson, Lin Liao, Dieter Fox, and Henry Kautz. Inferring
High-Level Behavior from Low-Level Sensors. Proceedings of UBICOMP
2003: The Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing.
Learning and Inferring Transportation Routines. Draft, under review. Lin Liao Dieter Fox Henry Kautz |
12. Don Patterson
13. Lin Liao |
| Mon Feb 9 | Representing Hierarchical Activities | N. Nguyen, H. Bui, S. Venkatesh, G. West.
Recognizing and Monitoring High-Level
Behaviours in Complex Spatial Environments. Proc. CVPR 2003. D. Moore & I. Essa. Recognizing Multitasked Activities from Video using Stochastic Context-Free Grammar, AAAI-2002. |
14. Kate Diebel 2
15. Henry Kautz |
| Wed Feb 11 | Recording a Life | Brian Clarkson, Life
Patterns, PhD Thesis, MIT, 2002. Chapters 1, 2, 3 Chapters 4, 5 Chapters 6, 7 |
16. Mausam 1 17. Scott Schremmer 1 18 |
| Mon Feb 16 | President's Day, no classes | ||
| Wed Feb 18 | Class Cancelled | ||
| Mon Feb 23 | Predicting Patterns of Home Activities | Diane J. Cook, Michael Youngblood, Edwin O. Heierman, III,
Karthik Gopalratnam, Sira Rao, Andrey Litvin, Farhan Khawaja.
MavHome: An Agent-Based Smart Home.
First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and
Communications (PerCom'03), 2003. Active LeZi: An Incremental Parsing Algorithms for Sequential Prediction, K. Gopalratnam & D. Cook. Proceedings of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium, pages 38-42,May 2003. Mozer, M. C. (2004). Lessons from an adaptive house. In D. Cook & R. Das (Eds.), Smart environments: Technologies, protocols, and applications. J. Wiley & Sons. |
19. Daniel Lowd 2
20. Jeff Bigham 2
21. Sandra Fan 2 |
| Wed Feb 25 | Monitoring Activities of Daily Living | An Overview of the Assisted
Cognition Project. Henry Kautz, Larry Arnstein, Gaetano Borriello, Oren
Etzioni, and Dieter Fox. AAAI-2002 Workshop on Automation as Caregiver:
The Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care. Sporadic State Estimation for General Activity Inference. Donald J. Patterson, Dieter Fox, Henry Kautz, Matthai Philipose. Draft, under review, 2004. Mining Models of Human Activities from the Web. Mike Perkowitz, Matthai Philipose, Donald J. Patterson, Kenneth Fishkin. Draft, final version to appear at WWW-2004. |
22. Henry Kautz
23. Karthik Gopalratnam 2
24. Raphael Hoffman 1 |
| Fri Feb 27 Make Up Class |
Reminding and Prompting |
Autominder: A Planning,
Monitoring, and Reminding Assistive Agent. Pollack, McCarthy,
Tsamardinos, Ramakrishnan, Brown, Carrion, Colbry, Orosz, Peintner.
AIPS 2002. A Plan-Based Personalized Cognitive Orthotic. AIPS 2002. Pollack, McCarthy. A. Mihailidis, G. Fernie, J. Barbenel, "The use of artificial intelligence in the design of an Intelligent Cognitive Orthosis for people with dementia", Assistive Technology 2001;13:23-39. |
25. Jayant Madham 2
26.
27. |
| Mon Mar 1 | Social Interaction | Sensing and
Modeling Human Networks, Tanzeem Choudhury, MIT PhD Thesis, 2004. Chapters 1 and 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 |
28. Mausam 2 29. Raphael Hoffman 2 30. Xu Miao 2 |
| Wed Mar 3 | Computational Theories of Creativity | Boden, Margaret A. 2004. The creative mind: myths
and mechanisms. Routledge Press. Introduction: In a
Nutshell, pages 1-10; Chapter 4: Maps of the Mind, pages 54-87. Boden, Margaret A., op cite. Chapter 5: Concepts of Computation, pages 88-124; Boden, Margaret A., op cite. Chapter 7: Unromantic Artists, pages 147-198. |
31. Danny Wyatt 2 32. Patrick Halupzok 2 33. Julie Letchner 2 |
| Fri Mar 5 Make Up Class |
Music Composition & Performance | D. Cope, 1992. "A Computer Model of Music Composition." In
Machine Models of Music, Stephan Schwanauer and David Levitt, eds.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. G. Widmer, S. Dixon, W. Goebl, E. Pampalk, & A. Tobudic (2003). In search of the Horowitz factor. AI Magazine 24(3), pp 111-130. |
34. Scott Schremmer 2
35. Sandra Fan 3 |
| Mon Mar 8 | Class Cancelled | ||
| Wed Mar 10 | Cognition and Emotion | (Papers to be announced soon)
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