Naturally-Inspired Artificial Intelligence
Papers from the 2008 AAAI Fall Symposium
Jacob Beal, Paul Bello, Nick Cassimatis, Michael Coen, and Patrick Winston Program Cochairs
Technical Report FS-08-06. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Organizing Committee / iii
Jacob Beal, Paul Bello, Nick Cassimatis, Michael Coen, and Patrick Winston
Preface / vii
Jacob Beal, Paul Bello, Nick Cassimatis, Michael Coen, and Patrick Winston
A Naturalistic, Functional Approach to Modeling Language Comprehension / 1
Jerry T. Ball
Engineered Robustness by Controlled Hallucination / 9
Jacob Beal, Gerald Jay Sussman
Cognitive Development: Informing the Design of Architectures for Natural Intelligence / 13
Paul Bello
Detecting the Evolution of Semantics and Individual Beliefs through Statistical Analysis of Language Use / 21
Avri Bilovich, Joanna J. Bryson
Why Learning Can Be Hard: Preschooler's Causal Inferences / 27
Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Laura Schulz
Cognitive Mechanics: Natural Intelligence Beyond Biology and Computation / 35
Jon Doyle
Optimistic Problem Solving / 38
Susan L. Epstein
Collecting Semantics in the Wild: The Story Workbench / 46
Mark Alan Finlayson
Companion Cognitive Systems: Design Goals and Some Lessons Learned / 54
Ken Forbus, Matt Klenk, Tom Hinrichs
How Tacit Knowledge Guides Action / 61
Ya'akov Gal, Rajesh Kasturirangan, Avi Pfeffer, Whitman Richards
Learning Hierarchical Representations and Behaviors / 65
Robert A. Hearn, Richard H. Granger
Men Are Dogs (and Women Too) / 67
Ian Horswill
Visual Affordances and Symmetries in Canis habilis: A Progress Report / 72
Thomas E. Horton, Lloyd Williams, Wei Mu, Robert St. Amant
Toward a Process Model of Explanation with Implications for the Type-Token Problem / 79
John E. Hummel, David H. Landy, Derek Devnich
Two Kinds of Paraphrase in Modeling Embodied Cognitive Agents / 87
Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale
Modal Inference / 95
Whitman Richards
Probabilistic Strategy Selection for Flexible Cognition / 98
Jennifer M. Roberts, Gregory Marton
A Bayesian Model of Pedagogical Reasoning / 101
Patrick Shafto, Noah Goodman
Advice Taking and Transfer Learning: Naturally Inspired Extensions to Reinforcement Learning / 103
Lisa Torrey, Trevor Walker, Richard Maclin, Jude Shavlik
AI and Mental Imagery / 111
Samuel Wintermute, Scott D. Lathrop
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