Course:CPSC502-2013

Papers for Presentations

Here are the papers for presentations.

There will be 3 paper presentations for each day. Each presentation will be by two people, and will be for 25 minutes: approx 15 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for discussion. You will also be assigned a presentation to review and prepare questions for on each day you are not presenting. See pres-papers.pdf for more details.

Monday November 18

• Summarizing Spoken and Written Conversations EMNLP 2008. Machine learning Applied to natural language. (Rebecca McKnight, Ori Hadary)

• Multi-document Biography Summarization, EMNLP 2004. Compares different classifiers for summarization. (Zongxu Mu, Rui Ge)

• Human-Guided Machine Learning for Fast and Accurate Network Alarm Triage, IJCAI 2011, (The original paper won Best Paper Award at CHI-11). Interactive Machine Learning. (Francisco Escalona, Kamyar Ardekani)

Wednesday November 20

• A Graphical Decision-Theoretic Model for Neonatal Jaundice, Medical Decision Making Journal, 2007. Decision Networks, Multi-Attribute Utility Functions. (Yan Peng, Yidan Liu)

• A Markov decision process approach to multi-category patient scheduling in a diagnostic facility, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal, 2011. MDPs vs. Heuristic Methods. (Jonatan Milewski, Mike Wu)

• Predicting Facial Indicators of Confusion with Hidden Markov Models. Int. Conf on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2011. Using HMMs for predicting confusion. (Nayantara Duttachoudhury)

Monday November 25

• Using Bayesian Networks to Manage Uncertainty in Student Modeling. Journal of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 2002 (Sections 1-3). Dynamic BNs. (Lauren Fratamico, Antoine Ponsard)

• Bayesian Probabilities for Constraint-based Causal Discovery IJCAI, 2013. Algorithms for causal discovery. (Imran Ahmed, Nowrin Anwar Joyita)

• Learning from crowds The Journal of Machine Learning Research 99 (2010): 1297-1322. (will cover only classification, not regression in the presentation). (Sharan Vaswani, Mohamed Ahmed)

Wednesday November 27

• A New Algorithm for RNA Secondary Structure Design, Journal of Molecular Biology, 2004. (Jillian Slind, Jakob Karolus)

• Monte Carlo Tree Search for the Physical Travelling Salesman Problem Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7248, 2012, pp 255-264 Monte Carlo Search Tree with Application to Logic Games such as Chess and Go (Russell Gillette, Daniel Rozenberg)