Paul A. Crook - Peer Reviewed Publications

Recent publications:

Paul A. Crook and Oliver Lemon."Accurate Probability Estimation of Hypothesised User Acts for POMDP Approaches to Dialogue Management"Published in Proceedings of the 12th Annual Research Colloquium of the special-interest group for computational linguistics in the UK and Ireland (CLUKI 2009), Dublin, April 2009. Abstract, pdf. You can also view the slides from the conference presentation (pdf).
Paul A. Crook, Tim C. Lukins, James A. Heward and J. Douglas Armstrong."Identifying semi-Invariant Features on Mouse Contours" Published in Proceedings of the 19th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2008), Leeds, September 2008. Abstract, pdf.
James A. Heward, Paul A. Crook, Tim C. Lukins, and J.Douglas Armstrong."iBehave - application of supervised machine learning to behaviour analysis"Published in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research (Measuring Behavior 2008), Maastricht, August 2008.
Tim C. Lukins, Mike Dewar, Paul A. Crook, James A. Heward, and J.Douglas Armstrong. "Automatically determining active investigation in rodents using contour analysis"Published in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research (Measuring Behavior 2008), Maastricht, August 2008.
Paul A. Crook and Gillian Hayes. "Consistent exploration improves convergence of reinforcement learning on POMDPs" Published in proceedings of the AAMAS 2007 Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALAg-07), Honolulu, Hawaii May 2007. Abstract, pdf, gzipped postscript. You can also view the slides from the workshop presentation (pdf).

PhD thesis
Paul A. Crook "Learning in a State of Confusion: Employing active perception and reinforcement learning in partially observable worlds" published June 2007 by University of Edinburgh, College of Science and Engineering, School of Informatics. Abstract and full electronic version of thesis can be found in the Edinburgh Research Archive at http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1471. This is a persistent URL which should always resolve to my thesis, i.e. you can safely cite it.

Slides from a talk that I gave at the IDSIA institute (in Switzerland) give a summary of my PhD work.
Paul A. Crook and Gillian Hayes. "Active Perception in Navigation of Partially Observable Grid Worlds". In Proceedings of EWRL-6 (the Sixth European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning), Nancy, France, September 2003. Abstract, pdf. You can also view the slides from the workshop presentation (pdf).
Paul A. Crook and Gillian Hayes. "Could Active Perception Aid Navigation of Partially Observable Grid Worlds?". In Proceedings of 14th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2003), Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2003. Published in Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2837, pp 72-83. Abstract, pdf. Paper © 2003 Springer Verlag. You can also view the slides from the conference presentation (pdf).
Paul A. Crook and Gillian Hayes. "Learning in a State of Confusion: Perceptual Aliasing in Grid World Navigation". In Proceedings of TIMR 2003 - Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots, UWE, Bristol, August 2003. Abstract, pdf.

Publications from MSc research

Paul A. Crook, Stephen Marsland, Gillian Hayes and Ulrich Nehmzow. "A Tale of Two Filters - On line Novelty Detection". In Proceedings of The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2002), Washington DC, May 2002. Abstract, pdf, postscript.gz. Paper © 2002 IEEE. You can also view the slides from the conference presentation (ps.gz). I also wrote a short conference review.
Paul A. Crook and Gillian Hayes. "A Robot Implementation of a Biologically Inspired Method for Novelty Detection". In Proceedings of TIMR 2001 - Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots, Manchester, April 2001. Abstract, postscript.gz
MSc Thesis on on-line Novelty Detection on a Mobile Robot; "A Neural Network Model for Familiarity Discrimination". Abstract, pdf.gz