Marc Vilain

AAAI Conference 1991 Conference Paper

Deduction as Parsing: Tractable Classification in the KL-ONE Framework

• Marc Vilain

AAAI Conference 1990 Conference Paper

Getting Serious About Parsing Plans: A Grammatical Analysis of Plan Recognition

• Marc Vilain

AAAI Conference 1990 Conference Paper

On Analytical and Similarity-Based Classification

• Marc Vilain

This paper is concerned with knowledge representation issues in machine learning. In particular, it presents a representation language that supports a hybrid analytical and similarity-based classification scheme. Analytical classification is produced using a KL-ONE-like term-subsumption strategy, while similarity-based classification is driven by generalizations induced from a training set by an unsupervised learning procedure. This approach can be seen as providing an inductive bias to the learning procedure, thereby shortening the required training phase, and reducing the brittleness of the induced generalizations.

AAAI Conference 1986 Conference Paper

Constraint Propagation Algorithms for Temporal Reasoning

• Marc Vilain

This paper considers computational aspects of several temporal representation languages. It investigates an interval-based representation, and a point-based one. Computing the consequences of temporal assertions is shown to be computationally intractable in the interval-based representation, but not in the point-based one. However, a fragment of the interval language can be expressed using the point language and benefits from the tractability of the latter.

IJCAI Conference 1985 Conference Paper

The Restricted Language Architecture of a Hybrid Representation System

• Marc Vilain