This thesis presents the task of argument mining, finding arguments within natural language texts, and reports on experiments combining techniques previously applied in disparate but related domains to the tasks of detecting ...

With the advent of the electronic health record (EHR), there has been an explosion of rich medical information available for automatic and manual analyses. While the majority of current medical informatics research focuses ...

The Combinatorial Optimization field consists of selecting best or optimal object or optimal set of objects from finite set of possibilities. Many computer science problems can be formulated as combinatorial optimization ...

Automatic fake news detection is a very challenging problem especially in a fraud/deception detection and it has significant real-world political and social impact. During the 2016 US Presidential Election, the world saw ...

Automated essay analysis is one of the most important educational applications of natural language processing. The practical value of automated essay analysis systems is that they can perform essay analysis tasks faster, ...

Information extraction, a key area of research in Natural Language Processing (NLP), concerns the extraction of structured information from natural language documents. Recent years have seen a gradual shift of focus from ...

Speech Source Localization (SSL) (or Direction of Arrival estimation) is a powerful pre-processing tool that helps identify the direction of the talker of interest in a noisy environment using multiple fixed microphones ...

With continued progress in artificial intelligence, vehicle technologies have advanced significantly from human controlled driving towards fully automated driving. During the transition, the intelligent vehicle should be ...

Dramatic success of machine learning algorithms has led to a torrent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in computer vision and natural language understanding. However, the effectiveness of these systems is limited ...

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a field of Artificial Intelligence that deals with converting information into knowledge in a form that the computer can process. It applies concepts from the field of ...