Program of the 7th Midwest AI and Cog Sci Conference 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 Lindley Hall 102 Chair: Alex Eulenberg Chair: Raja Sooriamurthi Intelligent Tutoring Systems 1 Learning 8:40 A text realization system to transform shallow Sequential effects reflect semantic forms to FDs in an unintended rule-like intelligent tutoring system representations of Murugan Kannan and Martha association Evens Lianggang Lou (University of (Illinois Institute of California, San Diego) Technology) 9:00 How to respond to student initiatives in tutoring Learning how to reason from systems prior experiences Farhana Shah and Martha Andrew Kinley, David Wilson, Evens and David Leake (Illinois Institute of (Indiana University) Technology) 9:20 Goals for the CIRCSUM-Tutor v.3 input understander Multitask constructive Michael Glass and Martha induction Evens Peter Drake (Indiana (Illinois Institute of University) Technology) Program Recognition Analogy 9:40 Generating chunks and chunk signatures for program recognition and fault localization Implicit analogy-making: a Ilene Burnstein, Floyd connectionist exploration Saner, and Katherine Douglas Blank (Indiana Roberson University) (Illinois Institute of Technology) 10:00 Beyond Copycat: PROTRAN: an intelligent, incorporating self-watching rule-based, program into a computer model of transformation system high-level perception and Abdulrahman Mirza (Genesis analogy-making International) 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 1:00-2:40 Paper Session 2 Lindley Hall 101 Lindley Hall 102 Language 1 Vision 1 Chair: Elizabeth Purnell Chair: Fred Cummins 1:00 Efficient coreference resolution for proper names Segmentation of MRI and CT in the Wall Street Journal data using locally text excitatory globally John-Sun Kim and Martha inhibitory oscillator Evens networks (Illinois Institute of Naeem Shareef (Ohio State Technology) University) 1:20 Perception of spatial scale Synonymy and word in events from information equivalence in motion L. John Old (University of Daniel McConnell and Arkansas at Little Rock) Geoffrey Bingham (Indiana University) 1:40 Classification of meronymy by methods of relational Multiple representation concept analysis types in perception Uta Priss (Technische John Rehling (Indiana Hochschule Darmstadt) University) Neural Networks Open Forum on Teaching AI Chair: Peter Drake ----------------------------- Susan Fox (Macalester 2:00 Loose synchrony in College), Organizer relaxation oscillator networks with time delays Shannon Campbell (Ohio State University) 2:20 Neural network dynamics of inhibition: metacontrast masking Gregory Francis (Purdue University) 2:40-3:00 Break 3:00-4:20 Paper Session 3 Lindley Hall 101 Lindley Hall 102 Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2 Language 2 Chair: David Wilson Chair: Steven Berbeco 3:00 Understanding human communication acknowledgement protocols Self-entrainment in animal through the study of behavior and human speech artificial communication Robert Port, Fred Cummins, protocols and Keiichi Tajima Stefan Brandle (Illinois (Indiana University) Institute of Technology) 3:20 The student model: from The INFANT system: past, text-based to multi-media present, future tutoring systems Pattarachai Lalitrojwong Gregory Hume (Valparaiso (Illinois Institute of University), Joel Michael Technology), Paul Buchheit (Rush Medical College), and (Howard Washington College), Allen Rovick (Rush Medical and Martha Evens (Illinois College) Institute of Technology) 3:40 Using a text planner to Using PET toward a model the behavior of human naturalized model of human tutors in an ITS language processing Reva Freedman (Northwestern Robert Stufflebeam University) (Washington University) 4:00 Induction and state-space search for an intelligent training system Language evolution in a Freeman Kilpatrick, Gregg dynamic environment Gunsch, and Eugene Santos James Newkirk (Indiana (Air Force Institute of University) Technology) 4:20-4:40 Break 4:40-5:45 Paper Session 4 Lindley Hall 101 Lindley Hall 102 Vision 2 Invited Talk Chair: Dong Yu ----------------------------- Into the fields of the mind 4:40 Texture-based processing in Jonathan Mills (Indiana early vision and a proposed University) role for coarse-scale segmentation Michael Hucka and Stephen Kaplan (University of Michigan) 5:00 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: Thomas Stewart 5:20 Texture segmentation using A dynamic view of reference Gabor filters and LEGION Matthias Scheutz and Jenett Erdogan Cesmeli (Ohio State Tillotson University) (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 Lindley Hall 102 Chair: Andrew Kinley Chair: Douglas Eck Language 4 Reasoning and Inference 9:00 Inferencing over incomplete solution spaces with genetic A goal-oriented look at algorithms for probabilistic English additives reasoning Alex Eulenberg (Indiana Brett Borghetti, Edward University) Williams, and Eugene Santos (Air Force Institute of Technology) 9:20 Reasoning with contestations Social agents for and preferences communicative tasks Shekhar Pradhan (University David Pautler (Northwestern of Maryland, College Park; University) Central Missouri State University) 9:40 Relational operators on Introduction to temporal generalized quantifiers Bayesian networks Charles Kurtz (Central Joel Young and Eugene Santos Missouri State University, (Air Force Institute of Syracuse University) Technology) Television 10:00 The effects of production pacing and arousing content on encoding, storage, and Modeling the six modes of retrieval of television Peircean abduction for messages educational purposes Paul Bolls (Washington Gary Shank (Northern State University), Robert Illinois University) Potter (Indiana and Donald Cunningham University), and Annie Lang (Indiana University) (Indiana University) 10:20 The effects of arousing message content and structural complexity on television viewers' arousal and allocation of Evidence reliability in processing resources nonmonotonic domains and Annie Lang (Indiana nearly monotonic problems University), Paul Bolls Norman Carver (Southern (Washington State Illinois University) University), and Karlynn Kawahara (Washington State 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 Symposium on Space and Chair: Robert Potter Language ----------------------------- 1:20 Development of an Organizer: Terry Regier intelligent user interface (University of Chicago) for a generic expert system Robert Harrington, Sheila Participants: Laura Banks, and Eugene Santos Carlson-Radvansky (Notre (Air Force Institute of Dame University), Michael Technology) Gasser (Indiana University), Terry Regier, Linda B. Smith 1:40 Friendly medical database (Indiana University) system interface in Chinese Da-Jinn Wang, Tsong-Yi Chen, and Martha Evens (Illinois Institute of Technology)