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Gathering and Managing Facts for Intelligence Analysis
(2005-05)This paper presents a novel method, based on the Cyc Knowledge Base and Inference Engine, of gathering, organizing and sharing information about entities of interest (be they people, organizations, events or some other ... -
Knowledge Begets Knowledge: Steps towards Assisted Knowledge Acquisition in Cyc
(AAAI, 2005)The Cyc project is predicated on the idea that, in order to be effective and flexible, computer software must have an understanding of the context in which its tasks are performed. We believe this context is what is known ... -
Learning to Parse Natural Language Commands to a Robot Control System
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2012-06)As robots become more ubiquitous and capable of performing complex tasks, the importance of enabling untrained users to interact with them has increased. In response, unconstrained natural-language interaction with robots ... -
A Joint Model of Language and Perception for Grounded Attribute Learning
(2012-06-27)As robots become more ubiquitous and capable, it becomes ever more important to enable untrained users to easily interact with them. Recently, this has led to study of the language grounding problem, where the goal is to ... -
On the Ability to Provide Demonstrations on a UAS: Observing 90 Untrained Participants Abusing a Flying Robot
(AAAI, 2015)This paper presents an exploratory study where participants piloted a commercial UAS (unmanned aerial system) through an obstacle course. The goal was to determine how varying the instructions given to participants affected ... -
Inferring Robot Morphology from Observation of Unscripted Movement
(IEEE, 2019-05)Task sharing between heterogeneous robots currently requires a priori capability knowledge, a shared communication protocol, or a centralized planner. However, in practice, when two robots are brought together, the effort ... -
¿Es un platano? Exploring the Application of a Physically Grounded Language Acquisition System to Spanish
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019-06)In this paper we describe a multilingual grounded language learning system adapted from an English-only system. This system learns the meaning of words used in crowd-sourced descriptions by grounding them in the physical ... -
Deep Learning for Category-Free Grounded Language Acquisition
(Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019-06)We propose a learning system in which language is grounded in visual percepts without pre-defined category constraints. We present a unified generative method to acquire a shared semantic/visual embedding that enables a ... -
April 15 is the day tobacco companies pay $9 billion for tobacco illnesses, but is it enough.
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Estimating the Costs to Mississippi Medicaid Attributable to Tobacco
(The Hilltop Institute, 2018-12-07)This report presents to the Center for Mississippi Health Policy the results of a model for estimating tobacco-related costs for Mississippi Medicaid participants using administrative claims data for calendar years (CYs) ... -
Maryland Department of Health Master Agreement Annual Report of Activities and Accomplishments FY 2018
(The Hilltop Institute, 2018-12)This report describes the services The Hilltop Institute provided to the Maryland Department of Health (the Department) under the Master Agreement between Hilltop and the Department. The report covers fiscal year (FY) 2018 ... -
Summary Report: Maryland Community Health Resources Commission Program Assessment
(The Hilltop Institute, 2018-11-06)The Maryland Community Health Resources Commission (CHRC) aims to expand access to health care for low-income Marylanders and underserved communities and increase the capacity of the state’s health care safety net ... -
Medicaid Buy-In: Questions of Purpose and Design
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Community Benefit State Law Profiles (Comparison)
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Evaluation of the Maryland Health Home Program for Medicaid Enrollees with Severe Mental Illnesses or Opioid Substance Use Disorder and Risk of Additional Chronic Conditions
(The Hilltop Institute, 2018-06-25)Hilltop staff presented at the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Seattle in June. Senior Policy Analyst Shamis Mohamoud, MA, gave this podium presentation, which provided an overview of Hilltop’s evaluation ... -
Expanding Medicaid Coverage for Community-Based Long-Term Services and Supports: Lessons From Maryland’s Community First Choice Program
(SAGE journals, 2018-06-05)Community First Choice (CFC) is a Medicaid state plan option authorized through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that supports the delivery of longterm services and supports in home and community settings. We interviewed ... -
Designing a Medicare Help at Home Benefit: Lessons from Maryland’s Community First Choice Program
(2018-06)ISSUE: Medicare does not cover home- and community-based services (HCBS) that help beneficiaries function independently at home. The financial burden of uncovered personal care services puts beneficiaries with physical or ... -
Does the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Affect Hospital Utilization Among Older Adults? The Case of Maryland
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2018-04-01)This study sought to examine whether Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation and benefit levels are associated with reduced subsequent hospital and emergency department utilization in low-income older ... -
Medicaid Treatment and Service Fees for Substance Use Disorder (SUD): CY 2012–2016
(The Hilltop Institute, 2018-03-22)The Heroin and Opioid Emergency Task Force, established by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, recommends that the Maryland Department of Health review Maryland Medicaid rates for substance use disorder (SUD) services every ... -
The Maryland Medicaid Dental Program: CY 2012 to CY 2016
(The Hilltop Institute, 2018-03-13)This chart book outlines the demographics and service utilization for individuals enrolled in the Maryland Medicaid Dental Program who received services in calendar years 2012 through 2016. Individuals who qualify for ...
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