The Effects of Deictic Pointing in Word Learning (2009)
Previous research suggested that eye gaze as a social cue plays a crucial role in early word learning. In light of this, we investigated another kind of embodied social cue, pointing, and asked how...
Zhou Bin, Rao Li, Peng Ying, Wang Yanyun, Li Yi, Gao Linbo, ...
Abstract Background Previous studies in experimental and human heart failure showed that nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) is chronically activated in cardiac myocytes, suggesting an important...
Infinitely Many Solutions for a Semilinear Elliptic Equation with Sign-Changing Potential (2009)
We consider a similinear elliptic equation with sign-changing potential −Δu−V(x)u=f(x,u), u∈H1(ℝN), where V(x) is a function possibly changing sign in ℝN....
Infinitely Many Solutions for a Semilinear Elliptic Equation with Sign-Changing Potential (2009)
We consider a similinear elliptic equation with sign-changing potential −Δu−V(x)u=f(x,u), u∈H1(ℝN), where V(x) is a function possibly changing sign in ℝN. Under certain assumptions on f,...
A Simulation Study of Data Partitioning Algorithms for Multiple Clusters (2008)
Chen Yu, Dan C. Marinescu, Howard Jay Siegel, John P. Morrison
Abstract — Recently we proposed algorithms for concurrent execution on multiple clusters [9]. In this case, data partitioning is done at two levels; first, the data is distributed to a collection...
Address correspondence to: (2008)
Chen Yu, Linda B. Smith, Chen Yu
There are an infinite number of possible word-to-world pairings in naturalistic learning environments. Previous proposals to solve this mapping problem focus on linguistic, social, and...
Statistical Cross-Situational Learning to Build Word-to-World Mappings (2008)
There are an infinite number of possible word-to-world pairings in naturalistic learning environments. Previous proposals to solve this mapping problem focus on linguistic, social, representational...
Learning to Perform Actions Through Multimodal Interaction (2008)
Chen Yu, Xue Gu, Dana H. Ballard
Anthropomorphic robots are expected to collaborate with users as human-like assistants. For instance, users can control the behaviors of robots by speech. When a user sends a spoken command “pick...
Learning Syntax-Semantics Mappings to Bootstrap Word Learning (2008)
This paper addresses possible interactive effects between word learning and syntax learning at an early stage of development. We present a computational model that simulates how the results from a...
Statistical Word Learning Based on Cross-Situational Observation (2008)
Chen Yu, Linda B. Smith, Samantha Br
Abstract- One way young children could learn words is by pairing spoken words with co-occurring possible referents in the extralinguistic environment, collecting multiple such pairs, and then...
Research Article Rapid Word Learning Under Uncertainty via Cross-Situational Statistics (2008)
ABSTRACT—There are an infinite number of possible wordto-word pairings in naturalistic learning environments. Previous proposals to solve this mapping problem have focused on linguistic, social,...
Study on the injection practices of health facilities in Jingzhou district, Hubei, China (2008)
Yan Youwang, Zhang Guangping, Chen Yu, Zhang Anqiang, Guan Yong, Ao Hongping
BACKGROUND: Some studies indicate unsafe injection practices, which are associated with the transmission of blood-borne pathogens, exist extensively, in the developing countries. AIMS: To investigate...
A Unified Model of Early Word Learning: Integrating Statistical and Social Cues (2008)
Previous work on early language acquisition has shown that word meanings can be acquired by an associative procedure that maps perceptual experience onto linguistic labels based on cross-situational...
An Interactive Virtual Reality Platform for Studying Embodied Social Interaction (2008)
Hui Zhang, Chen Yu, Linda B. Smith
We present an interactive virtual reality platform for studying the role of embodied social interaction in the context of language learning. The virtual environment consists of virtual objects, a...
A Unified Model of Early Word Learning: Integrating Statistical and Social Cues (2008)
Previous work on early language acquisition has shown that word meanings can be acquired by an associative procedure that maps perceptual experience onto linguistic labels based on cross-situational...
Overall Blocking Behavior Analysis of General Banyan-Based Optical Switching Networks (2008)
Chen Yu, Xiaohong Jiang, Susumu Horiguchi, Senior Member, Minyi Guo
Abstract—Banyan networks are attractive for serving as the optical switch architectures due to their nice properties of small depth and absolutely signal loss uniformity. Combining the horizontal...
An Automated Data Processing Pipeline for Virus Structure Determination at High Resolution (2008)
Chen Yu, Dan C. Marinescu, John P. Morrison, Brian C. Clayton, David A. Power
The automation of the data processing pipeline for virus structure determination at high resolution is a very challenging problem. The interaction between the data collection process and the...
ABSTRACT AI RESEARCH IN CHINA: A REVIEW (2008)
Jiang Xinsong, Song Guoning, Chen Yu
getting more and more active in China and certain useful results have been achieved. This paper is intended to review briefly what was and is going on in AI field of China.
Tian Mei, Cui Ya-Zhou, Song Guan-Hua, Zong Mei-Juan, Zhou Xiao-Yan, Chen Yu, ...
Abstract Background There is an urgent need to discover more sensitive and specific biomarkers to improve early diagnosis and screen high-risk patients for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)....
A New Dimension Analysis on Blocking Behavior in Banyan-Based Optical Switching Networks (2008)
YU, Chen, INOGUCHI, Yasushi, HORIGUCHI, Susumu
Vertically stacked optical banyan (VSOB) is an attractive architecture for constructing banyan-based optical switches. Blocking behaviors analysis is an effective approach to studying network...
SUN, Wei, YU, Chen, DÉFAGO, Xavier, INOGUCHI, Yasushi
The scheduling of real-time tasks with fault-tolerant requirements has been an important problem in multiprocessor systems. The primary-backup (PB) approach is often used as a fault-tolerant...
Understanding Human Behaviors Based on Eye-head-hand Coordination (2007)
Abstract. Action recognition has traditionally focused on processing fixed camera observations while ignoring non-visual information. In this paper, we explore the dynamic properties of the movements...
Efficacy of different protein descriptors in predicting protein functional families (2007)
Ong Serene, Lin Hong, Chen Yu, Li Ze, Cao Zhiwei
Abstract Background Sequence-derived structural and physicochemical descriptors have frequently been used in machine learning prediction of protein functional families, thus there is a need to...
Chen Mao, Sandow Shaun, Doceul Virginie, Chen Yu, Harper Heather, Hamilton Bruce, ...
Abstract Background HERG potassium channel blockade is the major cause for drug-induced long QT syndrome, which sometimes cause cardiac disrhythmias and sudden death. There is a strong interest in...
YU, Chen, JIANG, Xiaohong, HORIGUCHI, Susumu
A combination of horizontal expansion and vertical stacking of optical Banyan (HVOB) is the general architecture for building Banyan-based optical cross-connects (OXCs), and the intrinsic crosstalk...
Language is about symbols, and those symbols must be grounded in the physical world. Children learn to associate language with sensorimotor experiences during their development. In light of this, we...
Detecting User Engagement in Everyday Conversations (2004)
Yu, Chen, Aoki, Paul M., Woodruff, Allison
This paper presents a novel application of speech emotion recognition: estimation of the level of conversational engagement between users of a voice communication system. We begin by using machine...
An experimental study of the noise radiation from a construction vehicle cooling package / (2004)
For construction vehicle companies, reducing the noise from the cooling package unit has become an urgent task since the cooling package can generate 50 to 90 percent of the overall noise generated...
Objective: To investigate the regulating pattern of kidney-tonifying recipes and spleen-invigorating recipe on the expression of T lymphocyte apoptosis signaling-related genes in...
A multimodal learning interface for grounding spoken language in sensory perceptions (2004)
Most speech interfaces are based on natural language processing techniques that use pre-defined symbolic representations of word meanings and process only linguistic information. To understand and...
A multimodal learning interface for grounding spoken language in sensory perceptions (2004)
We present a multimodal interface that learns words from natural interactions with users. In light of studies of human language development, the learning system is trained in an unsupervised mode in...
Detecting User Engagement in Everyday Conversations (2004)
Chen Yu, Paul M. Aoki, Allison Woodruff
This paper presents a novel application of speech emotion recognition: estimation of the level of conversational engagement between users of a voice communication system. We begin by using machine...
Detecting user engagement in everyday conversations (2004)
This paper presents a novel application of speech emotion recognition: estimation of the level of conversational engagement between users of a voice communication system. We begin by using machine...
A multimodal learning interface for grounding spoken language in sensory perceptions (2004)
Categories and Subject Descriptors: I.2.6 [Artificial Intelligence]: Learning—Language acquisition; I.2.0 [Artificial
A Computational Model of Embodied Language Learning (2003)
Language is about symbols and those symbols must be grounded in the physical environment during human development. Most recently, there has been an increased awareness of the essential role of...
The role of embodied intention in early lexical acquisition (2003)
Chen Yu, Dana H. Ballard, Richard N. Aslin
We examine the influence of inferring interlocutors ’ referential intentions from their body movements at the early stage of lexical acquisition. By testing human subjects and comparing their...
A Computational Model of Embodied Language Learning (2002)
Chen Yu And, Chen Yu, Dana H. Ballard
Language is about symbols and those symbols must be grounded in the physical environment during human development. Most recently, there has been an increased awareness of the essential role of...
Performance improvement of the computer numerical-control electro-discharge machine (1997)
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Ridgway, William M., Ito, Hiroaki, Fassò, Marcella, Yu, Chen, Garrison Fathman, C.
The current paradigm of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease association suggests that efficient binding of autoantigens by disease-associated MHC molecules leads to a T cell–mediated...