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Principal themes of Artificial Intelligence research at ISI:

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 and Munteanu)
  • TRANSONIC: Handheld speech translation
    (Knight, Marcu, Ettelaie)
  • 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)
Other relevant projects: NITROGEN, SENSUS, CORCO, SUMMARIST, GAZELLE, CONUNDRUM, DMT, PENMAN

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Education and Training
Topics: pedagogical agents, intelligent tutoring systems, distance education, virtual reality, social intelligence, human-computer interaction
  • ADE: Automated distance education
    (Johnson, Rickel, 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:Ýproductizable 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: Technology for USC's Distance Education Network
    (Johnson, Shaw)
  • Digital Puppets: Animated character authoring for K-12 education
Other relevant projects: SLICK, ALI, PROBES, MediaDoc

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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)
  • Heracles: Interactive Data-driven constraint-based planning
    (Knoblock, Ambite, Thakkar)
  • Theseus: Dataflow-based information agent execution
    (Knoblock, Barish)
  • TeraWorld: Integrated Virtual Repository of Semi-structured and Geospatial Data (Knoblock, Shahabi, Thakkar, Ambite)

Other relevant projects: EDC, SIMS, TEMPLE, DataCrystal

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Multi-Agent Sytems
Topics: heterogeneous agent architectures, agent teams, autonomous agents, theoetical analysis of multi-agent systems
  • Electric Elves: Agent technology for supporting human organizations
    (Chalupsky et al in paper)
  • RAP Teams: Heterogeneous Robot-Agent-Person Teams
    (Rosenbloom, Johnson, Tambe, Pynadath, Scerri, SI)
  • MathMass: Mathematical analysis of multi agent systems
    (Lerman, Galstyan)
  • TEAMCORE: Teamwork-based cooperation among heterogeneous problem solvers
    (Tambe, Pynadath, Scerry)
  • Teamwork Analysis Theory
    (Tambe)
  • DYNAMITE: Dynamic Negotiating Adaptive Multi-agent Teams
    (Tambe, Modi, Scerri)
  • Argumentation: Negotiation via Argumentation for Conflict Resolution
    (Tambe, Jung)
Other relevant projects: Ariadne, VHUMAN, DOCKER, SOAR, DREAMTEAM, ISIS, Robocup Rescue, ISAAC, PHOSPHORUS

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Adaptive Robots
Topics: self-configurable robots, adaptive robot control, learning from the environment
  • CONRO: Self-reconfigurable robots
    (Shen - A collaboration with the Distributed Scalable Systems Division)
  • SOALA: Self-Organizing and Auto-Learning Agents
    (Shen)
  • HORMCOMM: Cooperative control for self-reconfigurable systems
    (Shen)
  • Self-Assembly in Space
    (Shen)
Other relevant projects: RAP Teams, DREAMTEAM, YODA

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Interactive Knowledge Capture
Topics: Knowledge acquisition, intelligent user interfaces, visualization, plan evaluation and critiquing, knowledge-based systems, problem solving, acquisition dialogues, human-computer interaction
  • EXPECT: Knowledge acquisition for problem solving
    (Gil, Kim, Blythe)
  • TEMPLE: Interactive acquisition and visualization of planning constraints
    (Gil, Blythe)
  • KANAL: Knowledge analysis and checking of process models
    (Gil, Kim, Blythe, Ratnakar)
  • SLICK: Acquisition dialogues based on human tutoring
    (Gil, Kim)
  • DOCKER: Publishing and using distributed problem solvers and agents
    (Gil, Ratnakar)
  • JIST: Capturing Interactive Information Analysis
    (Gil)
Other relevant projects: PowerLoom, Ontosaurus, WhyNot, INSPECT

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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

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Semantic Web Markup Languages and Reasoning
Topics: markup for information analysis, trust, markup transformation, peer-to-peer infrastructure, Web-based problem solving
  • TRELLIS: Capture of rational of decisions and information analysis
    (Gil, 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, TeraWorld, PowerLoom

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Previous projects:
  • ISAAC: Teamwork Analysis
    (Marsella, Tambe)
  • NITROGEN: Robust, large-scale natural language generation using text corpora
    (Knight, Langkilde)
  • SIMS
    (Arens, Knoblock, Shen, Ambite)
  • SOAR: Cognitive architecture for simulating intelligent agents
    (Rosenbloom, Tambe)
  • LOOM: Knowledge representation and reasoning based on description logic
    (Chalupsky, Russ)
  • Ontosaurus: Ontology browsing and editing
    (Russ)
  • SENSUS: Large ontology of linguistic knowledge
    (Knight, Hovy)
  • STEVECO:Ýproductizable pedagogical agent technology
    (Johnson, Rickel)
  • VET: Virtual environments for training
    (Johnson, Rickel, Whitney, Lance)
  • ALI: Automated Lab Instructor for Virtual Laboratories
    (rickel, Johnson, D'Souza)
  • PROBES: Simulation analysis and explanation
    (Johnson, Rickel)
  • MediaDoc: Dynamic generation of multimedia software explanation and documentation
    (Johnson, Marsella)
  • INSPECT: Plan critiquing for air campaign planning
    (Gil)
  • PHOSPHORUS: ontology-based agent capability matching
    (Gil)
  • YODA: Robot agent with observation and discovery capabilities
    (Shen)
  • DREAMTEAM: Wheeled mobile robots for Robocup Soccer
    (Shen)
  • ISIS: ISI Synthetic Robocup Team
    (Tambe, Marsella)
  • DataCrystal: Data mining
    (Shen)
  • GAZELLE
    (Knight, Hermjakob, Stalls, Alonaizan, Germann, Köhn, Langkilde, Yamada, Hovy)
  • DMT: Discourse processing for machine translation
    (Hovy, Marcu)
  • SUMMARIST
    (Hovy)
  • C*S*T*RD
    (Hovy)
  • CONUNDRUM: Building discourse annotated corpora
    (Marcu)
  • Robocup Rescue: Search and Rescue Simulation for Large Scale Disasters
    (Tambe, Nair)
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Projects on teamwork, ontologies and information agents comprise Electric Elves

 
conro polymorphic robot
CONRO's self-configurable robots have broad implications for AI and nanotech
 
heracles
Information agents research has created robust technology for information integration from Web sources that is now being commercialized through a spin-off company
 
giza
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