Regular Papers

On the Usefulness of Extracting Syntactic Dependencies for Text Indexing

Miguel A. Alonso, Jesús Vilares, Victor M. Darriba

Using Latent Semantic Indexing as a Measure of Conceptual Association for Noun Compound Disambiguation

Alan M. Buckeridge, Richard F.E. Sutcliffe

RADAR: Finding Analogies Using Attributes of Structure

Brian P. Crean, Diarmuid O'Donoghue

Classifying Languages Based on Speech Rhythm

Fred Cummins

Finding Agents in a Two-Dimensional Boolean STaM

Jim Doran

Neuro-symbolic System for Forecasting Red Tides

Florentino Fdez-Riverola, Juan M. Corchado, Jesús M. Torres

Improved Learning for Hidden Markov Models Using Penalized Training

Bill Keller, Rudi Lutz

Recovering High-Level Structure of Software Systems Using a Minimum Description Length Principle

Rudi Lutz

A System for Multi-agent Information Retrieval

Paula Mc Dermott, Colm O'Riordan

All There Is to the Mind Is to Have the Right Genes, or, Consciousness as a Form of Genetic Engineering

Ajit Narayanan

Towards Robust Collaborative Filtering

Michael P. O'Mahony, Neil J. Hurley, Guenole C.M. Silvestre

GVR: A New Genetic Representation for the Vehicle Routing Problem

Francisco B. Pereira, Jorge Tavares, Penousal Machado, Ernesto Costa

An Empirical Comparison of Particle Swarm and Predator Prey Optimisation

Arlindo Silva, Ana Neves, Ernesto Costa

Data Mining Support for Case-Based Collaborative Recommendation

Barry Smyth, David Wilson, Derry O'Sullivan

The Feasibility of Machine Learning for Query Answering - An Experiment in Two Domains

Richard F.E. Sutcliffe, Kieran White

Meta-knowledge Annotation for Efficient Natural-Language Question-Answering

Tony Veale

Concise Papers

Financial Time Series Modelling Using Neural Networks: An Assessment of the Utility of a Stacking Methodology

Anthony Brabazon

Experiments in Sparsity Reduction: Using Clustering in Collaborative Recommenders

Derek Badge, Jerome Kelleher

Identification of Visual Features Using a Neural Version of Exploratory Projection Pursuit

Emilio Corchado, Colin Fyfe

How People Compare an Item's Placement in Two Alternative Categories

Fintan Costello

Investigations into Market Index Trading Models Using Evolutionary Automatic Programming

Ian Dempsey, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon

An Interactive Story Engine

Chris Fairclough, Padraig Cunningham

Coherence, Explanation; and Bayesian Networks

David H. Glass

Combining Case-Based Reasoning and Analogical Reasoning in Software Design

Paulo Gomes, Francisco C. Pereira, Nuno Seco, Paulo Paiva, Paulo Carreiro, José L. Ferreira, Carlos Bento

Combination Methods for Improving the Reliability of Machine Translation Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Gareth J.F. Jones, Adenike M. Lam-Adesiva

A System for Music Information Retrieval

Orla Lahart, Colm O'Riordan

A New Bayesian Network Structure for Classification Tasks

Michael G. Madden

Evaluating Preference-Based Feedback in Recommender Systems

Lorraine Mc Ginty, Barry Smyth

Design of a Musical Instrument Classifier System Based on Mel Scaled Cepstral Coefficient Supervectors and a Supervised Two-Layer Feedforward Neural Network

Declan McGrath

An Interactive Learning Environment for Knowledge Engineering

David McSherry

Customising a Copying-Identifier for Biomedical Science Student Reports: Comparing Simple and Smart Analyses

Julia Medori, Eric Atwell, Paul Gent, Clive Souter

A Hybridised GA for the Steiner Minimal Tree Problem

R. Panadero, J.L. Fernández-Villacañas

Speaking Autonomous Intelligent Devices

Robert J. Ross, Bryan McEleney, Robert Kelly, Tarek Abu-Amer, Michael Walsh, Julie Carson-Berndsen, Gregory M.P. O'Hare

Author Index