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 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 ...

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 ...

Data streams are continuous flows of data points. They are very common now-a-days in several domains such as e-commerce, education, health, security, and social networks. Their sheer volume and throughput speed pose a great ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Automatic essay scoring (AES) is the task of using computer technology to evaluate the quality of written essays and give feedback. AES systems are one of the most important educational applications of natural language ...

Despite being investigated for over 50 years, the task of Automated Essay Scoring (AES) is far from being solved. Nevertheless, it continues to draw a lot of attention in the natural language processing community in part ...