CS785 Intelligent Computer Interfaces

Prof. Robin Cohen

 

 

CS785 Slides and Readings

 

 

Natural Language:           Lecture slides I    Lecture slides II

Graeme Hirst
A foundation for semantic interpretation
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=981323&dl=GUIDE

Perrault Allen and Cohen
Speech Acts as the Basis for Understanding Dialogue Coherence
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/T/T78/T78-1017.pdf

Cohen and Perrault
Elements of a Plan-Based Theory of Speech Acts
www.springerlink.com/content/at8a0hhajb9xwuh6

 

Plan Recognition:            Lecture slides

Perrault and Allen
 A Plan-Based Analysis of Indirect Speech Acts
 portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=972540&dl=

Carberry
 Modeling the User's Plans and Goals
 portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=58916&dl

Pollack
 A Model of Plan Inference that Distinguishes between the beliefs of actors and observers
http://www.ai.sri.com/people/pollack

Kautz
 A formal theory of plan recognition and its implementation (1987)
http://aaaipress.org/Papers/AAAI/1986/AAAI86-006.pdf

 

Discourse:            Lecture slides

Grosz and Sidner
Attention, Intentions and the Structure of Discourse  1986
 portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&id=12458

 Rich and Sidner
Segmented Interaction History in a Collaborative Interface Agent
 portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=238218.238222&coll=&dl=GUIDE&type=series&idx=238218&pa

 

Natural Language Generation:          

Aravind Joshi
Generation: A New Frontier for Natural Language Processing?
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/T/T87/T87-1041.pdf

Kathy McKeown
Discourse strategies for generating natural language text
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4433.4434&coll=&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0004-3702(85)90082-7 Direct to PDF version of paper.

Cecile Paris
Tailoring object descriptions to a user's level of expertise
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=58918&dl=GUIDE

 

A set of slides presented by Fei Song September 17, 2012.

 

User Modeling:            Lecture slides

Robert Kass and Tim Finin
Modeling the User in Natural Language Systems
http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/get/a/publication/240.pdf

 

Intelligent Agents:            Lecture slides

Michael Wooldridge and Nicholas Jennings
Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.63.8454

M. Fleming
User Modeling in the Design of Interactive Interface Agents
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.41.3466&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Pattie Maes
Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=176792&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=18124212&CFTOKEN=94887203

 

Multiagent Systems: Part I           Lecture slides I -Lecture slides II

B. Chaib-Draa, R. Moulin, R. Mandiau and P. Millot;
Trends in Distributed Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence Review 6, 35-66, 1992. Kluwer Academic Publishers
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v20101r554210455/fulltext.pdf

 

Multiagent Systems: Part II          

Jie Zhang, Robin Cohen;
Evaluating the trustworthiness of advice about seller agents in e-marketplaces: A personalized approach
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications Volume 7, Issue 3, Autumn 2008, Pages 330–340
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ZhangJ/paper/ecra.pdf

J Zhang, R Cohen, K Larson;
Combining Trust Modeling and Mechanism Design for Promoting Honesty in E‐Marketplaces
Computational Intelligence, May 2012, online version
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/zhangj/paper/ci-jie-12.pdf

T Tran, R Cohen;
Improving user satisfaction in agent-based electronic marketplaces by reputation modelling and adjustable product quality
Proceeding AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2 Pages 828 - 835
http://pdf.aminer.org/000/056/833/improving_user_satisfaction_in_agent_based_electronic_marketplaces_by_reputation.pdf

 

Datamining:           Lecture slides

          A valuable set of slides presented in 2009 by a guest speaker is here.
 

Information Retrieval:           Lecture slides

          General Reference: CACM Volume 39, Number 1
 

AI and Education:           Lecture slides
 

Knowledge Bases and Case-Based Reasoning:           Lecture slides I   Lecture slides II

J. Borron, D. Morales and P. Klahr;
Developing and Deploying Knowledge on a Global Scale;
AI Magazine Volume 17 Number 4 (1996)
http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1241/1142

 

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