Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: 13th Irish International Conference, Aics 2002, Limerick, Ireland, September 12-13, 2002. Proceedings (Paperback, 2002)

Regular Papers.- On the Usefulness of Extracting Syntactic Dependencies for Text Indexing.- Using Latent Semantic Indexing as a Measure of Conceptual Association for Noun Compound Disambiguation.- RADAR: Finding Analogies Using Attributes of Structure.- Classifying Languages Based on Speech Rhythm.- Finding Agents in a Two-Dimensional Boolean STaM.- Neuro-symbolic System for Forecasting Red Tides.- Improved Learning for Hidden Markov Models Using Penalized Training.- Recovering High-Level Structure of Software Systems Using a Minimum Description Length Principle.- A System for Multi-agent Information Retrieval.- All There Is to the Mind Is to Have the Right Genes, or, Consciousness as a Form of Genetic Engineering.- Towards Robust Collaborative Filtering.- GVR: A New Genetic Representation for the Vehicle Routing Problem.- An Empirical Comparison of Particle Swarm and Predator Prey Optimisation.- Data Mining Support for Case-Based Collaborative Recommendation.- The Feasibility of Machine Learning for Query Answering - An Experiment in Two Domains.- Meta-knowledge Annotation for Efficient Natural-Language Question-Answering.- Concise Papers.- Financial Time Series Modelling Using Neural Networks: An Assessment of the Utility of a Stacking Methodology.- Experiments in Sparsity Reduction: Using Clustering in Collaborative Recommenders.- Identification of Visual Features Using a Neural Version of Exploratory Projection Pursuit.- How People Compare an Item's Placement in Two Alternative Categories.- Investigations into Market Index Trading Models Using Evolutionary Automatic Programming.- An Interactive Story Engine.- Coherence, Explanation, and Bayesian Networks.- Combining Case-Based Reasoning and Analogical Reasoning in Software Design.- Combination Methods for Improving the Reliability of Machine Translation Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- A System for Music Information Retrieval.- A New Bayesian Network Structure for Classification Tasks.- Evaluating Preference-Based Feedback in Recommender Systems.- Design of a Musical Instrument Classifier System Based on Mel Scaled Cepstral Coefficient Supervectors and a Supervised Two-Layer Feedforward Neural Network.- An Interactive Learning Environment for Knowledge Engineering.- Customising a Copying-Identi.er for Biomedical Science Student Reports: Comparing Simple and Smart Analyses.- A Hybridised GA for the Steiner Minimal Tree Problem.- Speaking Autonomous Intelligent Devices.