Tekkotsu is an open source application development framework for intelligent mobile robots. Originally designed for undergraduate computer science majors, recent refinements to the framework have led us to explore its use with high school students. We developed a pilot course curriculum to introduce high level robotics to students with little or no programming experience in a way that provides improved feedback and error detection on multiple levels. The use of visualization tools and pair programming techniques scaffolds the learning process and provides a systematic way to introduce robotics as a fun and worthwhile endeavor to novices, and helps instructors efficiently address students’ concerns in a real-time manner.

In this paper we present Myro-C++, developed at the University of Tennessee. Myro-C++ is a C++ port ofthe Python Myro library that was written by the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College. Myro-C++ is publicly available, open source software, released under the GPLv3 open source license. At the time of writing, the library has been used six semesters for the CS1 courseat the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The library contains functions for control of the robot and access to sensor information, and provides the ability to display the live camera image from the robot into a video window. This library is used as a teaching tool in our CS1 course where students learn basic programming fundamentals using multiple artificial intelligence based labs. In addition to the software, the IPRE book, Learning Computing with Robots, has been edited to use C++ examples and explanations, and is freely available. We also present example programs that we use as laboratory assignments in our Introduction to Computer Science course, which are also freely available.

The FLAIRS Artificial Intelligence Education special track is devoted to methods of teaching AI. Its purpose is to provide a forum where AI educators from diverse institutional settings can share resources, innovations, and insights to advance the quality of AI education worldwide. Topics include model assignments, course syllabi, software, or other curricular resources, implementation of the Computing Curricula 2001 Intelligent Systems area, AI classroom techniques or innovations for undergraduate or graduate instruction, intelligent applications for instruction of AI and assessment of such applications, the use of robots or other hands-on equipment for teaching AI, strategies for incorporating AI research into AI courses, strategies for encouraging wider student interest and participation in AI, and descriptions or case studies of successful class projects or other pedagogical experiences.

Hard news articles, just like op-ed articles, can reflect a media organization's bias. This study assesses bias in the hard news articles published by Fox News and MSNBC. Indicative linguistic features identified by the Gramulator reveal biases in corpora from the two networks.

With an explosion in the proliferation of user-generated content in communities, information overload is increasing and quality of readily available online content is deteriorating. There is an increasing need for intelligent systems that make use of implicit user generated knowledge in communities for community engagement. We describe our approach based on modeling user utterances in communities to proactively target the community for exchange of questions and answers. We envision a system that automatically encourages user engagement and participation by routing relevant conversations to users based on individual and community activity levels. In this paper, we analyze health forum conversations from WebMD, a popular health portal consumer site, and classify them in different acts of speech using Verbal Response Modes (VRM) theory. We describe our approach for modeling an intelligent community recommender to engage participants based on observations from our analysis.

Analyzing chat traffic has important applications for both the military and the civilian world. This poster will report on an effort to automatically separate chat messages into topic threads.

Harnessing rich, but unstructured information on social networks in real-time and showing it to relevant audience based on its geographic location is a major challenge. The system developed, TwitterTagger, geotags tweets and shows them to users based on their current physical location. Experimental validation shows a performance improvement of three orders by TwitterTagger compared to that of the baseline model.

Expressions (MWEs) (Okita et al. 2010), this may improve the overall translation. For example in EN-JP, the empirical evidences 2007; Koehn 2010) intends to handle morphologically rich suggest that we separate affix(es) and word stem(s) since it languages in the target side by integrating additional linguistic obtains better BLEU score than the case when we do not separate markup at the word level, where each type of additional them although the adequacy decreases.

In this study, we analyze two corpora of art critiques: one on the subject of photography and the other on the subject of modern art. We use two computational tools, the Gramulator and GPAT to analyze both sets of texts. The Gramulator was used to show the indicative linguistic features that make photography criticism a distinct genre from modern art criticism. Results suggest that lexical features, structural formats, and genre consistency differed significantly between the two corpora. The findings provide information for teachers, students, publishers, and curriculum developers for creating more effective writing and teaching materials. This includes material for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in the form of textbooks, workbooks and other external learning material.

Our corpus comprises 752 texts, culled from newspapers of U.S. border states (approximately 75 texts per state). Immigration is a national issue in the United States; Because four states border Mexico, we selected four however, regional implications differ because of matching states (of the 11) that border Canada. To do so, immigrants' varying effects on local economies. These we considered the following criteria for all 15 terrestrial implications are made manifest in the reportage of local border states: total population, immigrant population, newspapers, which, while ostensibly portraying length of international border, and political leaning. These "objective" language, may reveal the narrative of local data were input into a custom PERL script designed to perspectives on national issues.