Prof David Powers

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Refereed journal articles

Pfitzner, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., & Powers, D.M., 2009. Characterization and evaluation of similarity measures for pairs of clusterings. Knowledge and Information Systems, 19(3), 361-394.

Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2008. Evolving encapsulated programs as shared grammars. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 9(3), 203-228.

Pfitzner, D.M., Treharne, K., & Powers, D.M., 2008. User Keyword Preference: the Nwords and Rwords Experiments. International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, 3(3), 149-158.

Fitzgibbon, S.P., Powers, D.M., Pope, K., & Clark, C.R., 2007. Removal of EEG Noise and Artifact Using Blind Source Separation. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 24(3), 232-243.

Powers, D.M., 2006. Comparitive, continuity, and computational evidence in evolutionary theory: predictive evidence versus productive evidence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(3), 294-296.

Powers, D.M., 2006. On the unproductiveness of language and linguistics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(1), 82-84.

Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2003. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition using Red Exclusion an Neural Networks. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 35(1), 41-64.

Li, Y., Powers, D.M., & Pope, K., 2003. A new approach to blind signal deconvolution using recurrent neural networks. International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, 7(2), 62-69.

Refereed conference papers

Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2010. Fast Grammar-Based Evolution Using Memoization. PPSN XI, Part II, LNCS 6239, 502-511.

Burnham, D.K., Ambikairajah, E., Arciuli, J., Bennamoun, M., Best, C.T., Bird, S., Butcher, A.R., Cassidy, S., Chetty, G., Cox, F.M., et al., 2009. A blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus. Selected proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet workshop on designing the Australian national corpus : mustering languages, 96-107.

Milne, M., Powers, D.M., & Leibbrandt, R.E., 2009. Development of a software-based social tutor for children with autism spectrum disorders. Conference proceedings : Australian Conference on Computer Human Interaction (OZCHI 2009), 265-268.

Treharne, K. & Powers, D.M., 2009. Search Engine Result Visualisation: challenges and opportunities. Proceedings of international symposium on web visualization, 633-638.

Huang, J.H. & Powers, D.M., 2008. Suffix-tree-based approach for Chinese information retrieval. International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2008), 393-397.

Leibbrandt, R.E., Luerssen, M.H., Matsumoto, T., Treharne, K., Lewis, T.W., Santi, M.L., & Powers, D.M., 2008. An immersive game-like teaching environment with simulated teacher and hybrid world. Animation, multimedia, IPTV and edutainment: proceedings of CGAT '08, 215-222.

Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2008. Distinctive Feature Fusion for Recognition of Australian English Consonants. Interspeech 2008, 2671-2674.

Matsumoto, T., Powers, D.M., & Asgari, N., 2008. Webcam Configurations for Ground Texture Visual Servo. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, CIS 2008, (4670915), 554-559.

Powers, D.M., 2008. Evaluation evaluation - a Monte Carlo study. The 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Powers, D.M., 2008. Minors as miners: Modelling and evaluating ontological and linguistic learning. Proceedings of the 7th Australasian Data Mining Conference, 3-14.

Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., & Lawson, M.J., 2008. PETA: a pedagogical embodied teaching agent. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008, 282.

Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Pfitzner, D.M., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Stevens, K., & Abrahamyan, A., 2008. Language Teaching in a Mixed Reality Games Environment. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008, 282.

Treharne, K., Pfitzner, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., & Powers, D.M., 2008. A lean online approach to human factors research. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2008), (57).

Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2008. Automatic thesaurus construction. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2008), CRPIT 74, 147-156.

Ceglar, A.J., Roddick, J.F., & Powers, D.M., 2007. CURIO: A fast outlier and outlier cluster detection algorithm for large datasets. Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining (AIDM 2007), 84, 37-45.

Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2007. Evolvability and redundancy in shared grammar evolution. 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007, (4424495), 370-377.

Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2007. Graph design by graph grammar evolution. 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 386-393.

Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2007. An empirical investigation into grammatically constrained contexts in predicting distributional similarity. Proceedings of the Australia Language Technology Workshop 2007 (ALTW07), 5, 117-124.

Powers, D.M., 2006. Vision in HCI: embodiment, multimodality and information capacity. Proc. HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in Human-Computer Interaction - VisHCI 2006, 56, 89-97.

Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2006. Distributional similarity in the varied order of syntactic spaces. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 3, 406-409.

Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2006. Verb similarity on the taxonomy of WordNet. Proceedings of the Third International WordNet Conference, 121-128.

Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2006. Word sense disambiguation using lexical cohesion in the context. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 929-936.

Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2005. Distinctive feature fusion for improved audio-visual phoneme recognition. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications, 1(1580196), 62-65.

Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2005. Graph composition in a graph grammar-based method for automata network evolution. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2, 1653-1660.

Yang, D. & Powers, D.M., 2005. Measuring semantic similarity in the taxonomy of WordNet. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Australasian Computer Science Conference, 38, 315-322.

Huang, J.H. & Powers, D.M., 2004. Adaptive compression-based approach for Chinese Pinyin input. Proceedings of the Third SIGHAN Workshop Chinese Language Learning.

Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2004. Sensor Fusion Weighting Measures in Audio-Visual Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2004), Dunedin, New Zealand. CRPIT, 26 (1).

Huang, J.H. & Powers, D.M., 2003. Chinese word segments based on contextual entropy. Proceedings of PACLIC 17 : 17th Pacific Asian Conference on Language Information and Computation, 152-158.

Li, Y., Wen, P., & Powers, D.M., 2003. Methods for the blind signal separation problem. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing, 2, 1386-1389.

Matsumoto, T., Powers, D.M., & Jarrad, G., 2003. Application of search algorithms to natural language processing. Proceedings of the Australiasian Language Technology Workshop 2003.

Pfitzner, D.M., Hobbs, V.M., & Powers, D.M., 2003. A unified taxonomic framework for information visualization. Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Symposium on Information Visualization, 24, 57-66.

Huang, J.H. & Powers, D.M., 2002. Experiments on unsupervised Chinese word segmentation and classification. Proceedings of the First Students' Workshop on Computational Linguistics, 83-89.

Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2002. A Multifaceted Investigation into Speech Reading. Advances in Soft Computing: Hybrid Information Systems.

Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2002. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Using Red Exclusions and Neural Networks. Proceedings of the twenty-fifth Australasian conference on Computer science 2002, 149-156.

Li, Y. & Powers, D.M., 2002. Speech separation based on higher order statistics using recurrent neural networks. Hybrid Information Systems, 45-55.

Huang, J.H. & Powers, D.M., 2001. Large Scale Experiments on Correction of Confused Words. Proceedings of Australasian Computer Science Conference 2001.

Lewis, T.W. & Powers, D.M., 2001. Lip Feature Extraction Using Red Exclusion. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology: Visualisation 2000 - Selected Papers from the Pan-Sydney Workshop on Visual Information Processing.

Li, Y., Powers, D.M., & Wen, P., 2001. Internal Model Control using Recurrent Neutral Networks for Non-Linear Dynamic Systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Other public research outputs

Powers, D.M. & Stokes, N., 2008. Editors, Adelaide, South Australia: Australian Language Technology Association.

Conference publications

Atyabi, A. & Powers, D.M., 2011. The Use of Area Extended Particle Swarm Optimization (AEPSO) in Swarm Robotics. Eleventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2010).

Atyabi, A., Anderson, T.A., Teharen, K., & Powers, D.M., 2011. Magician Simulator. Eleventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2010).

Abrahamyan, A., Davis, C., Fordyce, A., Gibert, G., Howell, C., Kim, J., Kroos, C., Lewis, T.W., Luerssen, M.H., Powers, D.M., et al., 2009. Evaluation methods. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 81-83.

Lewis, T.W., Luerssen, M.H., & Powers, D.M., 2009. Which one of you said that?. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 121-121.

Luerssen, M.H., Leibbrandt, R.E., Lewis, T.W., Pashalis, J., Treharne, K., Pfitzner, D.M., & Powers, D.M., 2009. MANA - An Embodied Calendar for the Aged. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 127-127.

Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., & Powers, D.M., 2009. Enabling the Evolution of the Thinking Head. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 126-126.

Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., & Powers, D.M., 2009. Head X and the Thinking Media Framework. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 122-122.

Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., & Powers, D.M., 2009. Working with the Prosthetic Head. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium, 123-124.

Fitzgibbon, S.P., Clark, C.R., & Powers, D.M., 2008. Asynchronous brain computer interface operation. 2008 Defence Human Sciences Symposium.

Leibbrandt, R.E. & Powers, D.M., 2008. Lexical category induction using lexically-specific templates. Supplement to the Proceedings of BUCLD 32.

Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E., & Powers, D.M., 2008. Adaptive multimodal perception for a virtual museum guide. 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence.

Powers, D.M., 2007. Cognitive load in text search: the Nwords and Rwords surveys. Proceedings of the Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces.

Powers, D.M., 2007. The role of 3D in visualization. Proceedings of the Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces.

Powers, D.M., Fitzgibbon, S.P., & Clark, C.R., 2007. Brain Computer Interface. Proceedings of the Joint HCSNet/HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces.

Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Santi, M.L., & Luerssen, M.H., 2007. A multimodal environment for immersive language learning - space, time, viewpoint and physics. Proceedings of Joint HCSNet/HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces.

Santi, M.L., Leibbrandt, R.E., & Powers, D.M., 2007. Desiderata and Trade-offs in HxI for Immersive Language Learning. Proceedings of the Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces.

Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2003. On the artificial evolution of neural graph grammars. Proceedings of the joint international conference on cognitive science, ICCS, 369-374.

Olsson, R. & Powers, D.M., 2003. Machine learning of human language through automatic programming. Proceedings of the joint international conference on cognitive science.

Powers, D.M. & Pfitzner, D.M., 2003. The magic science of visualization. Proceedings of the joint international conference on cognitive science.

Powers, D.M., 2003. Advanced Course on Validation and Evaluation in NLP and IR. Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Summer School.

Powers, D.M., 2003. Recall and precision versus the bookmaker. Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science, 529-534.

Gholam Hosseini, H., Reynolds, K.J., & Powers, D.M., 2001. A Multi-Stage Neural Network Classifier for ECG Events. Proceedings of 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Eng in Medicine and Biology Society.

Li, Y., Powers, D.M., & Peach, J., 2001. Comparison of blind source separation algorithms. Advances in Neural Networks and Applications.

Book chapters

Luerssen, M.H. & Powers, D.M., 2009. An empirical study of graph grammar evolution. In Evolutionary Computation. Vukovar, Croatia: In-Teh, pp. 445-472.

Powers, D.M., 2002. Robot babies: what can they teach us about language acquisition?. In Ecology of Language Acquisition. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 159-182.

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