Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
Edited by Vasile Rus and Zdravko Markov
Marco Island, Florida. May 22–24, 2017. Published by The AAAI Press, Palo Alto, California.
This proceedings is also available in book format.
General Conference
Machine Learning from Conversation with Humans / 2
Awrad Mohammed Ali, Avelino J. Gonzalez
Learning Tree-Structured CP-Nets with Local Search / 8
Thomas E. Allen, Cory Siler, Judy Goldsmith
Synthesis of Solutions for Shaded Area Geometry Problems / 14
Chris Alvin, Sumit Gulwani, Rupak Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay
The Perception of Social Bots by Human and Machine / 20
Darren Scott Appling, Erica J. Briscoe
A Study of Question Effectiveness Using Reddit "Ask Me Anything" Threads / 26
Kristjan Arumae, Guo-Jun Qi, Fei Liu
Online Article Ranking as a Constrained, Dynamic, Multi-Objective Optimization Problem / 32
Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian, Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad, Nikolay Laptev
Unsupervised Aspect Term Extraction in Online Drugs Reviews / 38
Diana C. Cavalcanti, Ricardo B. C. Prudencio
Real-Time Imitation Learning of Visual Behavior by a Mobile Robot / 44
Gabriel John Ferrer, Eric Huynh
Using Deep Learning to Automate Feature Modeling in Learning by Observation / 50
Michael W. Floyd, J. T. Turner, David W. Aha
A Deep Neural Architecture for Kitchen Activity Recognition / 56
Roger Leitzke Granada, Juarez Monteiro, Rodrigo Coelho Barros, Felipe Rech Meneguzzi
A Scalable Weighted Max-SAT Implementation of Propositional Etcetera Abduction / 62
Naoya Inoue, Andrew S. Gordon
Semantic Web and Ignorance: Dempster-Shafer Description Logics / 68
Loukia Karanikola, Isambo Karali
What-If Prediction via Inverse Reinforcement Learning / 74
Masahiro Kohjima, Tatsushi Matsubayashi, Hiroshi Sawada
Temporal Deep Belief Network for Online Human Motion Recognition / 80
Francois Lasson, Mihai Polceanu, Cedric Buche, Pierre De Loor
Online Conditional Outlier Detection in Nonstationary Time Series / 86
Siqi Liu, Adam Wright, Milos Hauskrecht
Group-Based Active Learning of Classification Models / 92
Zhipeng Luo, Milos Hauskrecht
Automated Assessment of Open-ended Student Answers in Tutorial Dialogues Using Gaussian Mixture Models / 98
Nabin Maharjan, Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus
Belief Revision with Bridging Axioms / 104
Oezguer Luetfue Oezcep
Automated Reasoning for the Dialetheic Logic RM3 / 110
Geoff Sutcliffe, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Allen P. Hazen
Markov Analysis of Students' Professional Skills in Virtual Internships / 116
Vasile Rus, Dipesh Gautam, Dale Bowman, Arthur C. Graesser, David Shaeffer
An Analysis of Human Tutors' Actions in Tutorial Dialogues / 122
Vasile Rus, Nabin Maharjan, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Michael Yudelson, Susan Berman, Stephen E. Fancsali, Steve Ritter
Why Do They Vote That? / 128
Marius Calin Silaghi, Roussi Roussev, Badria Alfurhood
Optimizing Expected Utility and Stability in Role Based Hedonic Games / 134
Matthew Jordan Spradling
Using Machine Learning to Understand Top-Down Effects in an Ecosystem: Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons Learned / 140
Douglas A. Talbert, Paul Tinker, Tom Crowther, Donald Walker
Improving Feedbacks for ITS Assessment of Concept Maps / 146
Hugo Traverson, David Genest, Stephane Loiseau
A Stochastic Approach to Character Growth in Automated Narrative Generation / 152
Josh Wade, Josiah Wong, Max Waldor, Lucas Pasqualin, Klaus Jantke, Rainer Knauf, Avelino Gonzalez
A Normative-Prescriptive-Descriptive Approach to Analyzing CSP Heuristics / 158
Richard J. Wallace
Efficient Learning of Classification Models from Soft-label Information by Binning and Ranking / 164
Yanbing Xue, Milos Hauskrecht
Improving Robustness in Social Fabric-Based Cultural Algorithms with Two New Approaches in Population and Belief Spaces / 170
Bahram Zaeri, Ziad Kobti
A Method for Automating Token Causal Explanation and Discovery / 176
Min Zheng, Samantha Kleinberg
General Conference Poster Papers
Rationale-Based Visual Planning Monitors for Cognitive Systems / 182
Zohreh A. Dannenhauer, Michael T. Cox
Complexity Guided Noise Filtering in QA Repositories / 186
K. V. S. Dileep, Swapnil Hingmire, Sutanu Chakraborti
Fuzzing and Verifying RAT Refutations with Deletion Information / 190
Walter Forkel, Tobias Philipp, Adrián Rebola-Pardo, Elias Werner
Overlapping Coalition Formation in Multi-sensor Networks / 194
Ramoni O. Lasisi
Classifying With AdaBoost.M1: The Training Error Threshold Myth / 198
Antônio Leães, Paulo Fernandes, Lucelene Lopes, Joaquim Assunção
Automatic Authorship Attribution of Noisy Documents / 202
Halim Sayoud, Salah Khennouf, Hocine Benzerroug, Zohra Hamadache, Hassina Hadjadj, Siham Ouamour
Can Word Embeddings Help Find Latent Emotions in Text? Preliminary Results / 206
Armin Seyeditabari, Wlodek Zadrozny
Tiered Coalition Formation Games / 210
Cory Siler
Special Track on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry
Online Proactive Escalation in Multi-Modal Automated Assistants / 215
Cynthia Freeman, Ian Beaver
Document Embedding Strategies for Job Title Classification / 221
Yun Zhu, Faizan Javed, Ozgur Ozturk
Forecasting Demand with Limited Information Using Gradient Tree Boosting / 227
Stephan Chang, Felipe Meneguzzi
Interaction Semantics versus Interaction Syntax in Data Visualization and Exploration: Design, Implementation and Utilization of Meme Media / 231
Jun Fujima, Klaus P. Jantke, Oksana Arnold, Bernd Schmidt
A Tool for Visualizing and Exploring Relationships Among Cancer-Related Patents / 235
Matthew Whitehead, Daniel K. N. Johnson
Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing
Recurrence Quantification Analysis: A Technique for the Dynamical Analysis of Student Writing / 240
Laura Kristen Allen, Aaron D Likens, Danielle S McNamara
An Efficient Deep Neural Architecture for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis in Twitter / 246
Willian Becker, Jônatas Wehrmann, Henry E. L. Cagnini, Rodrigo C. Barros
Learning Slowly To Learn Better: Curriculum Learning for Legal Ontology Population / 252
Cristian Cardellino, Milagro Teruel, Laura Alonso Alemany, Serena Villata
Multiword Term Extraction through Lexical Head Selection / 258
Dirk De Hertog, Piet Desmet
Sarcasm Detection Using Sentiment Flow Shifts / 264
Elena Filatova
Computational Analysis of Lexical and Cohesion Differences in Deceptive Language: The Role of Accordance / 270
Ali Heidari, Meredith D'Arienzo, Scott Crossley, Nicholas Duran
#SarcasmDetection Is Soooo General! Towards a Domain-Independent Approach for Detecting Sarcasm / 276
Natalie Parde, Rodney D. Nielsen
Automatically Identifying Humorous and Persuasive Language Produced during a Creative Problem-Solving Task / 282
Stephen Cameron Skalicky, Scott Andrew Crossley, Danielle McNamara, Kasia Muldner
Toward Extractive Summarization of Online Forum Discussions via Hierarchical Attention Networks / 288
Sansiri Tarnpradab, Fei Liu, Kien A. Hua
How Important Is Size? An Investigation of Corpus Size and Meaning in Both Latent Semantic Analysis and Latent Dirichlet Allocation / 293
Scott Crossley, Mihai Dascalu, Danielle McNamara
Can Natural Language Processing Help Identify the Author(s) of the Book of Isaiah? / 297
Reva Freedman
High Recall Text Classification for Public Health Systematic Review / 301
Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Samantha Y. Rowe, Alexander K. Rowe, Hannah L. Jackson, Megan Baker
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security
Graph-Based Anomaly Detection on Smart Grid Data / 306
Lenin Mookiah, Chris Dean, William Eberle
A Text Mining Approach for Anomaly Detection in Application Layer DDoS Attacks / 312
Maryam M Najafabadi, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Chad Calvert, Clifford Kemp
On ROC Curve Analysis of Artificial Neural Network Classifiers / 318
Chulwoo Kim, Sung-Hyuk Cha, Yoo Jung An, Ned Wilson
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence for Big Social Data Analysis
Learning Word Vectors in Deep Walk using Convolution / 323
Iti Chaturvedi, Erik Cambria, Sandro Cavallari, Vincent Zheng
ViewpointS: When Social Ranking Meets the Semantic Web / 329
Philippe Lemoisson, Guillaume Surroca, Clément Jonquet, Stefano Alessandro Cerri
MediConceptNet: An Affinity Score Based Medical Concept Network / 335
Anupam Mondal, Erik Cambria, Dipankar Das, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
Using Social Media to Assess Neighborhood Social Disorganization: A Case Study in the United Kingdom / 341
Diogo F. Pacheco, Marcos Oliveira, Ronaldo Menezes
Radical-Based Hierarchical Embeddings for Chinese Sentiment Analysis at Sentence Level / 347
Haiyun Peng, Erik Cambria, Xiaomei Zou
Deep Neural Network Architecture for Character-Level Learning on Short Text / 353
Joseph D. Prusa, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar
Language as a Measure of Welfare / 359
Priya Saha, Diogo Pacheco, Ronaldo Menezes
Tracing Linguistic Relations in Winning and Losing Sides of Explicit Opposing Groups / 365
Ceyda Sanli, Anupam Mondal, Erik Cambria
Fuzzy Spectral Hierarchical Communities in Evolving Political Contribution Networks / 371
Scott Wahl, John Sheppard
"Hang In There:" Lexical and Visual Analysis to Identify Posts Warranting Empathetic Responses / 377
Mimansa Jaiswal, Sairam Tabibu, Erik Cambria
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence in Games, Serious Games, and Multimedia
Improving Intuitive Reasoning Through Assistance Strategies in a Virtual Reality Game / 382
Ramla Ghali, Hamdi Ben Abdessalem, Claude Frasson
Towards Deception Detection in a Language-Driven Game / 388
Will Hancock, Michael W. Floyd, Matthew Molineaux, David Aha
A Key Risk Indicator for the Game Usage Lifecycle / 394
Luiz Kummer, Julio Nievola, Emerson Paraiso
An Interactive Virtual Training (IVT) Simulation for Early Career Teachers to Practice in 3D Classrooms with Student Avatars / 400
Alban Paul Delamarre, Cedric Buche, Mihai Polceanu, Stephanie Lunn, Guido Ruiz, Santiago Bolivar, Elisa Shernoff, Christine Lisetti
Automated Waypoint Generation with the Growing Neural Gas Algorithm / 404
Brian Jacob Dellinger, Ronald Jenkins, Joshua Walton
Game-Based Learning about 19th Century Poets / 208
Matthew William Fendt
Adapting First-Person Shooter Video Game for Playing with Virtual Reality Headsets / 412
Ilya Makarov, Oleg Konoplia, Pavel Polyakov, Maxim Martynov, Peter Zyuzin, Olga Gerasimova, Valeria Bodishtianu
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Informatics
Multivariate Anomaly Detection in Medicare using Model Residuals and Probabilistic Programming / 417
Richard A. Bauder, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar
Detection of Anomalous Activity in Diabetic Patients Using Graph-Based Approach / 423
Ramesh Paudel, William Eberle, Doug Talbert
Special Track on Autonomous Robots and Agents
Listen to My Body: Does Making Friends Help Influence People? / 430
Ron Artstein, David Traum, Jill Boberg, Alesia Gainer, Jonathan Gratch, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, Mikio Nakano
Using Machine Learning to Identify Activities of a Flying Drone from Sensor Readings / 436
Roman Bartak, Marta Vomlelova
Modeling Temporally Dynamic Environments for Persistent Autonomous Agents / 442
Matthew Joseph O'Brien, Ronald Craig Arkin
DTMF Audio Communication for NAO Robots / 448
Kyle Poore, Joseph Masterjohn, Andreas Seekircher, Pedro Pena, Ubbo Visser
Utilitarian Approach to Privacy in Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems / 454
Julien Savaux, Julien Vion, Sylvain Piechowiak, René Mandiau, Toshihiro Matsui, Katsutoshi Hirayama, Makoto Yokoo, Shakre Elmane, Marius Silaghi
Enhancing Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning with Concept Drift / 460
Frederick Charles Webber, Gilbert Peterson
Effects of Task Consideration Order on Decentralized Task Allocation Using Time-Variant Response Thresholds / 466
Annie S. Wu, Vera A. Kazakova
Towards Joint Human-Robotic Solutions to Surveillance Problems / 472
Christopher Michael Reardon, Jonathan Fink
Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning
Case-Based Goal Trajectories for Knowledge Investigations / 477
Vahid Badou Gustave Eyorokon, Uday Panjala, Michael Cox
A CBR System for Image-Based Webpage Classification: Case Representation with Convolutional Neural Networks / 483
Daniel López-Sánchez, Juan M. Corchado, Angélica González Arrieta
Feature Selection for Learning from Demonstration in Minecraft / 489
Brandon Packard, Santiago Ontanon
Business Process Workflow Monitoring Using Distributed CBR with GPU Computing / 495
Ioannis Agorgianitis, Stelios Kapetanakis, Miltos Petridis, Andrew Fish
Recent Themes in Case-Based Reasoning and Knowledge Discovery / 499
Isabelle Bichindaritz, Cindy Marling, Stefania Montani
Cognitive Adaptive Learning, Classification, and Response for Communications Threats (CALCR): A Case-Based Reasoning Approach / 503
Elizabeth Taylor Whitaker, Ethan Brantley Trewhitt, David Rosenbluth
Special Track on Data Mining
Outlier Processing Via L1-Principal Subspaces / 508
Shubham Chamadia, Dimitris A. Pados
pyISC: A Bayesian Anomaly Detection Framework for Python / 514
Blerim Emruli, Tomas Olsson, Anders Holst
Evaluating Preprocessing Strategies for Time Series Prediction using Deep Learning Architectures / 520
Sajitha Naduvil-Vadukootu, Rafal A. Angryk, Pete Riley
A Region-Based Retrieval System for Heliophysics Imagery / 526
Michael A. Schuh, Dustin Kempton, Rafal A. Angryk
RIPML: A Restricted Isometry Property-Based Approach to Multilabel Learning / 532
Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad
Novel Graph Based Anomaly Detection Using Background Knowledge / 538
Sirisha Velampalli, William Eberle
Anomalies in Students Enrollment Using Visualization / 544
Nishith Mukeshkumar Thakkar, Lenin Mookiah, Doug Talbert, William Eberle
Special Track on Intelligent Learning Technologies
Evolutionary Practice Problems Generation: More Design Guidelines / 549
Alessio Gaspar, A.T. M. Golam Bari, R. Paul Wiegand, Anthony Bucci, Amruth N. Kumar, Jennifer L. Albert
Transfer Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems — Results, Challenges and New Directions / 555
Aubrey Gress, J. T. Folsom-Kovarik, Ian Davidson
Adaptive Reading and Writing Instruction in iSTART and W-Pal / 561
Amy Marcelle Johnson, Kathryn S. McCarthy, Kristopher J. Kopp, Cecile A. Perret, Danielle S. McNamara
Identifying Original Projects in App Inventor / 567
Eni Mustafaraj, Franklyn Turbak, Maja Svanberg
Special Track on Intelligent Support for Decision Making
A Challenge for Multi-Party Decision Making: Malicious Argumentation Strategies / 574
Andrew Kuipers, Jörg Denzinger
Making Decisions Using Realistic Estimates of Customer Satisfaction / 580
Preet Inder Singh Rihan, Ritesh Garodia, Adeel Siddiqui, Roman Filipovych
Special Track on Learning from Heterogeneous Data Analytics
An Ensemble Blocking Approach for Entity Resolution of Heterogeneous Datasets / 586
Janani Balaji, Faizan Javed, Chris Min, Sam Sander
Discovering Language Independent Latent Aspect Clusters from Code-mixed Social Media Text / 592
Kavita Sanjay Asnani, Jyoti D Pawar
Virtual Screening Assisted by Siamese Neural Networks / 596
Alan Diego dos Santos, Duncan Ruiz
Special Track on Natural Language Processing of Ancient and Other Low-Resource Languages
Visual Exploration of Latin Derivational Morphology / 601
Chris Culy, Eleonora Litta, Marco Passarotti
Score Fusion Based Authorship Attribution of Ancient Arabic Texts / 607
Halim Sayoud, Siham Ouamour
Unsupervised Extraction of Training Data for Pre-Modern Chinese OCR / 613
Donald Sturgeon
GitDOX: A Linked Version Controlled Online XML Editor for Manuscript Transcription / 619
Shuo Zhang, Amir Zeldes
Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation for Venetan: A Proof-of-Concept Experiment / 624
Costanza Conforti, Alexander Fraser
Dating Tablets in the Garshana Corpus / 628
James Hearne, Connon Anderson, Yudong Liu, Dannon Dixon, Dario Fenstermacher Ritchie
Special Track on Non-Classical Logics
Logic of Existentialism in Fiction / 632
Ilya Makarov, Valeria Bodishtianu
Special Track on Recommender Systems
Sturgeon and the Cool Kids: Problems with Random Decoys for Top-N Recommender Evaluation / 639
Michael D. Ekstrand, Vaibhav Mahant
Investigating Personalized Search in E-Commerce / 645
Dietmar Jannach, Malte Ludewig
Recommending from Experience / 651
Francisco J. Peña, Derek Bridge
Recommender Response to Diversity and Popularity Bias in User Profiles / 657
Sushma Channamsetty, Michael D. Ekstrand
Exploiting Reviews to Generate Personalized and Justified Recommendations to Guide Users' Selections / 661
Nevena Dragovic, Maria Soledad Pera
UBR: A Book Search — Recommender Hybrid / 665
Jason Hall, Maria Soledad Pera
Special Track on Semantic, Logics, Information Extraction and Artificial Intelligence
Worldwide Scholarships Spreading / 670
Jean-Rémi Bourguet
Quasi-Topological Structure of Extensions in Logic of Determination of Objects (LDO) for Typical and Atypical objects / 676
Jean-Pierre Desclés, Anca Pascu, Ismaïl Biskri
A Robust Watermarking System Based on Formal Concept Analysis and Texture Analysis / 682
Musab Ghadi, Lamri Laouamer, Laurent Nana, Anca Pascu
Identifying Underlying Commonsense Knowledge in Definitions / 688
Jansen R. K. Orfan, James F. Allen
Modeling wth Events from Polcy Descriptions / 694
Nandan Parameswaran, Pani N. Chakrapani
Reasoning with Temporal Preferences over Data Streams / 700
Marcos Roberto Ribeiro, Maria Camila N. Barioni, Sandra de Amo, Claudia Roncancio, Cyril Labbé
Using Association Rules Mining for Retrieving Genre-Specific Music Files / 706
Louis Rompré, Ismaïl Biskri, Jean-Guy Meunier
A Logic for Making Hard Decisions / 712
Roussi Roussev, Marius Silaghi
Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning
Enforcing Relational Matching Dependencies with Datalog for Entity Resolution / 718
Zeinab Bahmani, Leopoldo Bertossi
On the Interrelationships Among C-Inference Relations Based on Preferred Models for Sets of Default Rules / 724
Christoph Beierle, Steven Kutsch, Andreas Obergrusberger
On Finding Relevant Variables in Discrete Bayesian Network Inference / 730
Cory James Butz, Andre Evaristo Dos Santos, Jhonatan Souza Oliveira
Learning the Parameters of Possibilistic Networks from Data: Empirical Comparison / 736
Maroua Haddad, Philippe Leray, Amélie Levray, Karim Tabia
Learning and Selection of Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Non-Stationary Processes in Real Time / 742
Matthieu Hourbracq, Pierre-Henri Wuillemin, Christophe Gonzales, Philippe Baumard
Typed Model Counting and Its Application to Probabilistic Conditional Reasoning at Maximum Entropy / 748
Marco Wilhelm, Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Extraction of NAT Causal Structures Based on Bipartition / 754
Yang Xiang
Feature Relevance in Bayesian Network Classifiers and Application to Image Event Recognition / 760
Mohand Said Allili, Siham Bacha
Towards An Understanding of What is Learned: Extracting Multi-Abstraction-Level Knowledge from Learning Agents / 764
Daan Apeldoorn, Gabriele Kern-Isberner
A Probabilistic Spatial-Temporal Model and its Application to Wind Prediction / 768
Nazzira Guerrero-Jezzinin, Pablo Ibargüengoytia, Luis Enrique Sucar
Poster Abstracts
FLAIRS-30 Poster Abstracts / 773
Vasile Rus, Zdravko Markov
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