Program of the
7th Midwest AI and Cog Sci Conference

A is a link to a full paper; a is a link to an abstract.

Friday, April 26
6:00-7:30	Welcoming Reception and Registration Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union
6:00-7:15	Mingling, soft drinks, snacks
7:15-7:30	Welcome Presentation of Best Student Paper Award
7:30-8:30	Invited Talk Speechstuff and thoughtstuff: musings on the resonances created by words and phrases via the subliminal perception of their buried parts Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana University)
8:30-10:30	Continuing Reception Featuring live music and cash bar Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Saturday, April 27
8:00-8:30	Refreshments Lindley Hall Second Floor Abyss
8:30-8:40	Opening Remarks Lindley Hall 102
8:40-10:20	Paper Session 1
	Lindley Hall 101 Chair: Alex Eulenberg	Lindley Hall 102 Chair: Raja Sooriamurthi
	Intelligent Tutoring Systems 1	Learning
8:40	A text realization system to transform shallow semantic forms to FDs in an intelligent tutoring system Murugan Kannan and Martha Evens (Illinois Institute of Technology)	Sequential effects reflect unintended rule-like representations of association Lianggang Lou (University of California, San Diego)
9:00	How to respond to student initiatives in tutoring systems Farhana Shah and Martha Evens (Illinois Institute of Technology)	Learning how to reason from prior experiences Andrew Kinley, David Wilson, and David Leake (Indiana University)
9:20	Goals for the CIRCSUM-Tutor v.3 input understander Michael Glass and Martha Evens (Illinois Institute of Technology)	Multitask constructive induction Peter Drake (Indiana University)
	Program Recognition	Analogy
9:40	Generating chunks and chunk signatures for program recognition and fault localization Ilene Burnstein, Floyd Saner, and Katherine Roberson (Illinois Institute of Technology)	Implicit analogy-making: a connectionist exploration Douglas Blank (Indiana University)
10:00	PROTRAN: an intelligent, rule-based, program transformation system Abdulrahman Mirza (Genesis International)	Beyond Copycat: incorporating self-watching into a computer model of high-level perception and analogy-making James Marshall and Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana University)
10:20-10:40	Break
10:40-11:40	Invited Talk Lindley Hall 102 Word retrieval in normal and aphasic speakers Gary Dell (University of Illinois)
11:40-1:00	Lunch
1:20-3:00	Paper Session 2
	Lindley Hall 101	Lindley Hall 102
	Language 1 Chair: Elizabeth Purnell	Vision 1 Chair: Fred Cummins
1:20	Efficient coreference resolution for proper names in the Wall Street Journal text John-Sun Kim and Martha Evens (Illinois Institute of Technology)	Segmentation of MRI and CT data using locally excitatory globally inhibitory oscillator networks Naeem Shareef (Ohio State University)
1:40	Synonymy and word equivalence L. John Old (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)	Perception of spatial scale in events from information in motion Daniel McConnell and Geoffrey Bingham (Indiana University)
2:00	Classification of meronymy by methods of relational concept analysis Uta Priss (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt)	Multiple representation types in perception John Rehling (Indiana University)
	Neural Networks Chair: Peter Drake	Open Forum on Teaching AI Susan Fox (Macalester College), Organizer
2:20	Loose synchrony in relaxation oscillator networks with time delays Shannon Campbell (Ohio State University)
2:40	Neural network dynamics of inhibition: metacontrast masking Gregory Francis (Purdue University)
3:00-3:20	Break
3:20-4:40	Paper Session 3
	Lindley Hall 101	Lindley Hall 102
	Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2 Chair: David Wilson	Language 2 Chair: Steven Berbeco
3:20	Understanding human communication acknowledgement protocols through the study of artificial communication protocols Stefan Brandle (Illinois Institute of Technology)	Self-entrainment in animal behavior and human speech Robert Port, Fred Cummins, and Keiichi Tajima (Indiana University)
3:40	The student model: from text-based to multi-media tutoring systems Gregory Hume (Valparaiso University), Joel Michael (Rush Medical College), and Allen Rovick (Rush Medical College)	The INFANT system: past, present, future Pattarachai Lalitrojwong (Illinois Institute of Technology), Paul Buchheit (Howard Washington College), and Martha Evens (Illinois Institute of Technology)
4:00	Using a text planner to model the behavior of human tutors in an ITS Reva Freedman (Northwestern University)	Using PET toward a naturalized model of human language processing Robert Stufflebeam (Washington University)
4:20	Induction and state-space search for an intelligent training system Freeman Kilpatrick, Jr., Gregg Gunsch, and Eugene Santos, Jr. (Air Force Institute of Technology)	A dynamic view of reference Matthias Scheutz and Jenett Tillotson (Indiana University)
4:40-5:00	Break
5:00-6:00	Paper Session 4
	Lindley Hall 101	Lindley Hall 102
	Vision 2 Chair: Dong Yu	Invited Talk Into the fields of the mind Jonathan Mills (Indiana University)
5:00	Texture-based processing in early vision and a proposed role for coarse-scale segmentation Michael Hucka and Stephen Kaplan (University of Michigan)
5:20	Comparing subjective contour perception in artificial neural networks and infants Bradley Best, Michele Benkert, John Monahan, and Michael Stinson (Central Michigan University)
		Language 3 Chair: Mike Gasser
5:40	Texture segmentation using Gabor filters and LEGION Erdogan Cesmeli (Ohio State University)	Language evolution in a dynamic environment James Newkirk (Indiana University)
6:30-11:00	Picnic Bryan Park
Sunday, April 28
8:00-9:00	Refreshments Lindley Hall Second Floor Abyss
9:00-10:40	Paper Session 5
	Lindley Hall 101 Chair: Andrew Kinley	Lindley Hall 102 Chair: Douglas Eck
	Language 4	Reasoning and Inference
9:00	Moreover, Besides, What is More: More than just conjunctions Alex Eulenberg (Indiana University)	Inferencing over incomplete solution spaces with genetic algorithms for probabilistic reasoning Brett Borghetti, Edward Williams, and Eugene Santos, Jr. (Air Force Institute of Technology)
9:20	Social agents for communicative tasks David Pautler (Northwestern University)	Reasoning with contestations and preferences Shekhar Pradhan (University of Maryland, College Park; Central Missouri State University)
9:40	Relational operators on generalized quantifiers Charles Kurtz (Central Missouri State University, Syracuse University)	Introduction to temporal Bayesian networks Joel Young and Eugene Santos, Jr. (Air Force Institute of Technology)
	Television
10:00	The effects of production pacing and arousing content on encoding, storage, and retrieval of television messages Paul Bolls (Washington State University), Robert Potter (Indiana University), and Annie Lang (Indiana University)	Modeling the six modes of Peircean abduction for educational purposes Gary Shank (Northern Illinois University) and Donald Cunningham (Indiana University)
10:20	The effects of arousing message content and structural complexity on television viewers' arousal and allocation of processing resources Annie Lang (Indiana University), Paul Bolls (Washington State University), and Karlynn Kawahara (Washington State University)	Evidence reliability in nonmonotonic domains and nearly monotonic problems Norman Carver (Southern Illinois University)
10:40-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	Invited Talk Lindley Hall 102 What is information? Jon Barwise (Indiana University)
12:00-1:20	Lunch
1:20-3:00	Paper Session 6
	Lindley Hall 101	Lindley Hall 102
	Intelligent Interfaces Chair: Robert Potter	Symposium on Space and Language Organizer: Terry Regier (University of Chicago) Participants: Laura Carlson-Radvansky (Notre Dame University), Michael Gasser (Indiana University), Terry Regier, Linda B. Smith (Indiana University)
1:20	Development of an intelligent user interface for a generic expert system Robert Harrington, Sheila Banks, and Eugene Santos, Jr. (Air Force Institute of Technology)
1:40	Friendly medical database system interface in Chinese Da-Jinn Wang, Tsong-Yi Chen, and Martha Evens (Illinois Institute of Technology)
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