Artificial intelligence publications
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An Email Assistant That Learns to Suggest Reusable Replies
We have implemented an approach in which rapid improvement in performance at suggesting reusable text is achieved by learning from limited user feedback.
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Biowarehouse: Relational Integration of Eleven Bioinformatics Databases and Formats
BioWarehouse is an open-source project for integrating bioinformatics databases within a relational database warehouse. It has multiple databases can be queried together within a single common schema.
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Reports of the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia
The goal of the AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management AAAI symposium was to investigate the various approaches and standards to represent business rules, business process management, and the…
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Sampling Stable Properties of Massive Track Datasets
In this paper, we explore ways in which stable properties of sensor observations can be extracted and visualized using a statistical sampling of features from a very large track dataset,…
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Enabling Experts to Build Knowledge Bases from Science Textbooks
As a near-term goal, we are focusing on enabling subject matter experts (SMEs) to construct declarative knowledge bases (KBs) from 50 pages of a science textbook in the domains of…
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Detecting and Summarizing Action Items in Multi-Party Dialogue
This paper addresses the problem of identifying action items discussed in open-domain conversational speech, and does so in two stages: firstly, detecting the subdialogues in which action items are proposed,…
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Efficient Message Passing and Propagation of Simple Temporal Constraints
We first show that for an STN, these messages can be represented compactly as sub-STNs. We then present an efficient message passing scheme for computing the minimal constraints of an…
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A Preference Model for Over-Constrained Meeting Requests
We develop a preference model designed to capture user scheduling preferences for overconstrained meeting requests between multiple people, and a methodology for preference elicitation to initially populate this model.
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An Intelligent Personal Assistant for Task and Time Management
We describe an intelligent personal assistant that has been developed to aid a busy knowledge worker in managing time commitments and performing tasks. The system draws on a diverse set…
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Proactive Behavior of a Personal Assistive Agent
Our model for proactive assistance employs a meta-level layer to identify potentially helpful actions and determine when it is appropriate to perform them. We conclude by identifying technical challenges in…
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Deductive Biocomputing
We describe a deduction-based approach to biocomputation that semiautomatically combines knowledge, software, and data to satisfy goals expressed in a high-level biological language.
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Proactivity in an Intentionally Helpful Personal Assistive Agent
This position paper outlines some initial thoughts on desired forms of proactive behavior, and identifies technical challenges in developing systems that embody such behaviors.