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Principal
themes of Artificial Intelligence research at ISI:
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Current ISD Research Projects:
Human Language Technology
Topics: natural language processing, machine translation,
summarization, question-answering, speech-to-speech translation,
statistical corpus analysis, text generation, robust dialogue,
discourse understanding, human-computer interaction
- Webclopedia:
Multilingual information delivery
(Hovy, Lin, Hermjakob, Ravichandran)
- REWRITE:
Statistical machine translation and abstracting
(Knight, Marcu, Germann, Graehl, Al-Onaizan, Fraser, Koehn,
Yamada, Daume, Munteanu and Och)
- TRANSONIC:
Handheld speech translation
(Knight, Marcu, Ettelaie and Och)
- ADGEN: Advanced generation for question answering
(Knight, Marcu, Graehl)
- PDP: Probabilistic Methods for Discourse Parsing
(Marcu, Soricut)
- TextMap: An Intelligent Question-Answering Assistant
(Marcu, Hovy, Knight, Hermjakob, Echihabi, Ravichandran, Soo-Min Kim)
- ISI-NL: Robust dialogue interpretation and affet-sensitive
sentence generation for the MRE agent architecture
(Hovy, Feng, Joshi)
- CHATTERBOT: Robust story-driven speech dialogue for virtual
reality
(Knight and Mote)
Other relevant projects: NITROGEN, SENSUS,
CORCO, SUMMARIST,
GAZELLE, CONUNDRUM,
DMT, PENMAN
Education and Training
Topics: pedagogical agents, intelligent tutoring systems,
distance education, virtual reality, social intelligence, human-computer
interaction
- ADE:
Advanced Distance Education
(Johnson, Shaw)
- VET:
Virtual environments for training
(Johnson, Rickel)
- VFTS: Virtual factory
teaching system
(Johnson, Rickel, Shaw)
- ParentEd/Carmen's
Bright Ideas: Interactive pedagogical drama
(Johnson, Marsella, LaBore)
- STEVECO:Êproductizable
pedagogical agent technology
(Johnson, Rickel)
- VHUMAN
Virtual Humans for Team Training in Virtual Reality (Rickel,
Johnson, Marsella, LaBore, Lance, Thiebaux, Sampath, Whitney,
Marshall)
- MERL:
Tutorial Dialogue with Pedagogical Agents
(Rickel)
- SI: Social Intelligence for Educational Software
(Johnson, Rickel, Shaw, Qu)
- MS Assess: Automated Learner Assessment for On-Line Learning
Environments
(Johnson, Ning Wang)
- DEN/LORD(Johnson, Shaw)
- Tactical Language: (Johnson+)
- Digital Puppets (Johnson, LaBore, Shaw)
Other relevant projects: SLICK,
ALI, PROBES, MediaDoc
Information Agents
Topics: information mediation, large-scale data repositotires,
constraint-based planning, dynamic planning and execution
- ARIADNE:
Information mediation from semi-structured web sources
(Knoblock, Muslea-M, Muslea-I, Tuchinda)
- ARGOS: Dynamic Web Service Composition for Transportation Freight Flows". (Ambite, Decker)
- Heracles:
Interactive Data-driven constraint-based planning
(Knoblock, Ambite, Thakkar)
- Theseus:
Dataflow-based information agent execution
(Knoblock, Barish)
- TerraWorld: Integrated Virtual Repository of Semi-structured
and Geospatial Data (Knoblock, Shahabi, Thakkar, Ambite)
Other relevant projects: EDC, SIMS,
TEMPLE, DataCrystal
Multi-Agent Sytems
Topics: heterogeneous agent architectures, agent teams, autonomous
agents, theoetical analysis of multi-agent systems
- CALO-PAL: personalized Agents that learn to support Human Organizations (Gil, Hobbs, Knoblock)
- RAP Teams: Heterogeneous Robot-Agent-Person Teams
(Rosenbloom, Johnson, Tambe, Pynadath, Scerri, SI)
- MathMAS:
Mathematical analysis of multi agent systems
(Lerman, Galstyan)
Other relevant projects: Argumentation, Ariadne,
DOCKER, DYNAMITE, DREAMTEAM, Electric-Elves,
ISAAC, ISIS,
PHOSPHORUS, Robocup Rescue,
SOAR, TEAMCORE, Teamwork Analysis Theory,
VHUMAN
Adaptive Robots
Topics: self-configurable robots, adaptive robot control,
learning from the environment
- CONRO: Self-reconfigurable robots
(Shen)
- SOALA: Self-Organizing and Auto-Learning Agents
(Shen)
- HORMCOMM: Cooperative control for self-reconfigurable
systems
(Shen)
- SOLAR: Self-assembly of space solar power systems
(Shen)
Other relevant projects: Constable,
DREAMTEAM, EXPECT, KANAL,
RAP Teams, TEMPLE, YODA
Interactive Knowledge Capture
Topics: Knowledge acquisition, intelligent user interfaces,
visualization, plan evaluation and critiquing, knowledge-based
systems, problem solving, acquisition dialogues, human-computer
interaction
- SLICK:
Skills for learning to interacterively capture knowledge
(Gil, Kim, Ratnakar)
- DOCKER: Helping people connect software
(Gil, Kim, Ratnakar, Spraragen)
- SCEC/IT: Information infrastructure for earthquake research
(Kim, Ratnakar, Spraragen)
(Gil)
Other relevant projects: PowerLoom,
Ontosaurus, WhyNot,
INSPECT
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Topics: large-scale knowledge bases, debugging incomplete
knowledge, ontology development, digital government, scalable
semantic link discovery
- Powerloom:
Knowledge representation and reasoning
(Chalupsky, Russ)
- KOJAK: Scalable
Semantic Link Discovery
(Chalupsky, Russ, Shen, Adibi, Lin)
- WhyNot:
Query debugging in large knowledge databases
(Chalupsky, Russ, Melz)
- CORCO:
(Hovy, Fleischman)
- EDC: Information Integration
leveraging large ontologies for digital government
(Hovy, Arens, Ambite, Philpot)
Other relevant projects: LOOM, Ontosaurus,
EXPECT, SENSUS, DOCKER,
TRIPLE
Semantic Web and Cognitive Grids
Topics: markup for information analysis, trust, markup transformation,
peer-to-peer infrastructure, Web-based problem solving
- Cognitive Grids:
Intelligent middleware for distributed problem solving
(Gil, Blythe, Kim)
- TRELLIS:
Capturing and exploiting semantic relationships for information and knowledge management
(Gil, Blythe, Kim, Ratnakar)
- Description of contents and capabilities, of web sites,
programs, sensors and other artifacts
(Hobbs)
- TRIPLE:
An RDF query, inference and transformation language
(Decker)
- OntoAgents:
An information foodchain for advanced applications in the
Internet
(Decker)
- HyperCup: A Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure for the Semantic
Web
(Decker)
Other relevant projects: Ariadne, DOCKER,
EDC, TerraWorld,
PowerLoom
Previous projects:
- ALI:
Automated Lab Instructor for Virtual Laboratories
(rickel, Johnson, D'Souza)
- Argumentation:
Negotiation via Argumentation for Conflict Resolution
(Tambe, Jung)
- Constable: Helping users to examine and modify constraints
(Gil, Blythe)
- C*S*T*RD
(Hovy)
- CONUNDRUM:
Building discourse annotated corpora
(Marcu)
- DataCrystal:
Data mining
- DREAMTEAM:
Wheeled mobile robots for Robocup Soccer
(Shen)
- DMT: Discourse processing for machine translation
(Hovy, Marcu)
- DYNAMITE:
Dynamic Negotiating Adaptive Multi-agent Teams
(Tambe, Modi, Scerri)
- Electric
Elves: Agent technology for supporting human organizations
(Chalupsky et al in paper)
- EXPECT:
A reflective architecture for knowledge acquisition
(Gil, Kim, Blythe)
(Shen)
- GAZELLE
(Knight, Hermjakob, Stalls, Alonaizan, Germann, Köhn, Langkilde, Yamada, Hovy)
- INSPECT:
Plan critiquing for air campaign planning
(Gil)
- ISAAC: Teamwork Analysis
(Marsella, Tambe)
- ISIS:
ISI Synthetic Robocup Team
(Tambe, Marsella)
- KANAL: Knowledge
analysis on process models
(Gil, Blythe, Kim, Ratnakar,Spraragen)
- LOOM:
Knowledge representation and reasoning based on description
logic
(Chalupsky, Russ)
- MediaDoc:
Dynamic generation of multimedia software explanation and
documentation
(Johnson, Marsella)
- NITROGEN:
Robust, large-scale natural language generation using text
corpora
(Knight, Langkilde)
- Ontosaurus:
Ontology browsing and editing
(Russ)
- PHOSPHORUS:
ontology-based agent capability matching
(Gil)
- PROBES:
Simulation analysis and explanation
(Johnson, Rickel)
- Robocup Rescue:
Search and Rescue Simulation for Large Scale Disasters
(Tambe, Nair)
- SENSUS:
Large ontology of linguistic knowledge
(Knight, Hovy)
- SIMS
(Arens, Knoblock, Shen, Ambite)
- SOAR:
Cognitive architecture for simulating intelligent agents
(Rosenbloom, Tambe)
- STEVECO:Êproductizable
pedagogical agent technology
(Johnson, Rickel)
- SUMMARIST
(Hovy)
- TEAMCORE:
Teamwork-based cooperation among heterogeneous problem solvers
(Tambe, Pynadath, Scerry)
- Teamwork Analysis Theory
(Tambe)
- TEMPLE:
Template enhancement through knowledge acquisition
(Gil, Blythe, Kim)
- VET:
Virtual environments for training
(Johnson, Rickel, Whitney, Lance)
- YODA: Robot
agent with observation and discovery capabilities
(Shen)

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