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Statistical, Corpus-base Goal Recognition

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Time: Thursday, January 8, 2004 - 10:01am
Speaker: 
Nate Blaylock, University of Rochester
Summary: 
Goal recognition, the task of inferring an agent's goal based on observed action, is an important component of many artificial intelligence applications, including intelligent user interfaces, adversarial systems, and natural language understanding. Most goal recognizers, however, are very slow, which has prevented their use in many practical applications. I will describe my work in using corpus-based machine learning techniques to create goal recognizers that are significantly faster than previous systems.
Biography: 
Nate Blaylock is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Linguistics from BYU in 1999, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 2001. During his studies he has done research internships at Microsoft Research, RIACS - NASA Ames Research Center, and at Saarland University in Germany. Nate's research interests include dialogue systems, machine translation, and autonomous agents.

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