CMSC 691B Topic Ideas

Active learning

Suggested by Prof. Marie desJardins
Description: Machine learning techniques for selecting the most useful instance to label next.
Relevant publications: Journals: Machine Learning Journal, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Journal of AI Research. Conferences: AAAI, ICML, IJCAI, NIPS.
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Plan explanation and summarization

Suggested by Prof. Marie desJardins
Description: Methods for automatically producing concise, informative summaries of plans produced by AI planning systems (particularly hierarchical task network planners)
Relevant publications: Journals: Artificial Intelligence Journal, Journal of AI Research. Conferences: AAAI, IJCAI, AIPS, ICAPS.
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Distributed Information Retrieval

Suggested by Prof. Charles Nicholas
Description: Techniques for dividing documents, indices, or metadata among a set of computers linked by a network.
Publications: Journals: Information Retrieval, Information Processing and Managemnent. Conferences: SIGIR, CIKM, VLDB.
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Ebiquity Topics

Suggested by Prof. Tim Finin
See http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/v2.1/research/area/id/future/ for a list of project ideas related to the eBiquity lab.