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ACSC
2005
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Measuring Semantic Similarity in the Taxonomy of WordNet
This paper presents a new model to measure semantic similarity in the taxonomy of WordNet, using edgecounting techniques. We weigh up our model against a benchmark set by human si...
Dongqiang Yang, David M. W. Powers
CVPR
2003
IEEE
16 years 9 months ago
Finding and Tracking People from the Bottom Up
We describe a tracker that can track moving people in long sequences without manual initialization. Moving people are modeled with the assumption that, while configuration can var...
Deva Ramanan, David A. Forsyth
AIED
2007
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Predicting Students' Performance with SimStudent: Learning Cognitive Skills from Observation
SimStudent is a machine-learning agent that learns cognitive skills by demonstration. SimStudent was originally built as a building block for Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools to hel...
Noboru Matsuda, William W. Cohen, Jonathan Sewall,...
NAACL
2010
15 years 5 months ago
The Best Lexical Metric for Phrase-Based Statistical MT System Optimization
Translation systems are generally trained to optimize BLEU, but many alternative metrics are available. We explore how optimizing toward various automatic evaluation metrics (BLEU...
Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning, Daniel Jurafsk...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Does the contingency of agents' nonverbal feedback affect users' social anxiety?
We explored the association between users' social anxiety and the interactional fidelity of an agent (also referred to as a virtual human), specifically addressing whether th...
Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, James H....