Clayton T Morrison

Interests

Research

Machine Learning, Causal Inference, Artificial Intelligence, Automated Planning, Knowledge Representation, Cognitive Science

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Savage, R., Palafox, L. F., Morrison, C. T., Rodriguez, J. J., Barnard, K. J., Byrne, S., & Hamilton, C. W. (2018). A Bayesian Approach to Sub-Kilometer Crater Shape Analysis using Individual HiRISE Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, PP(99), 1-11. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2018.2825608
• Valenzuela-Escárcega, M. A., Babur, Ö., Hahn-Powell, G., Bell, D., Hicks, T., Noriega-Atala, E., Wang, X., Surdeanu, M., Demir, E., & Morrison, C. T. (2018). Large-scale Automated Reading with Reach Discovers New Cancer Driving Mechanisms. Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.
• Camillo Villegas, J., Espeleta, J. E., Morrison, C. T., Breshears, D. D., & Huxman, T. E. (2014). Factoring in canopy cover heterogeneity on evapotranspiration partitioning: Beyond big-leaf surface homogeneity assumptions. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 69(3), 78A-83A.

Proceedings Publications

• Jansen, P. A., Wainwright, E., Marmorstein, S., & Morrison, C. T. (2018, May). WorldTree: A Corpus of Explanation Graphs for Elementary Science Questions supporting Multi-hop Inference. In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC).
• Noriega-Atala, E., Hein, P. D., Thumsi, S. S., Wong, Z., Wang, X., & Morrison, C. T. (2018, September). Inter-sentence Relation Extraction for Associating Biological Context with Events in Biomedical Texts. In The Sixth Workshop on Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics and Healthcare, held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (DMBIH@ICDM’18).
• Dawson, C. R., Huang, C., & Morrison, C. T. (2017, August). An infinite hidden Markov model with similarity-based transitions. In The Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017).
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  Short paper at competitive conference, double-blind review with acceptance rate of 25.46% (433 accepted out of 1701 submissions)
• Noriega-Atala, E., Valenzuela-Escárcega, M. A., Morrison, C. T., & Surdeanu, M. (2017, August). Focused Reading: Reinforcement Learning for What Documents to Read. In ICML 2017 Workshop on Interactive Machine Learning and Semantic Information Retrieval (IMLSIR@ICML 2017).
• Noriega-Atala, E., Valenzuela-Escárcega, M. A., Morrison, C. T., & Surdeanu, M. (2017, September). Learning what to read: Focused machine reading. In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017).
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  Short paper at competitive conference, double-blind review with acceptance rate of 18% (107 accepted out of 582 submissions)
• Quick, D., & Morrison, C. T. (2017, October). Composition by Conversation. In The Forty-Third International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2017).
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  Full paper at competitive conference, double-blind review.
• Valenzuela-Escárcega, M. A., Babur, Ö., Hahn-Powell, G., Bell, D., Hicks, T., Noriega-Atala, E., Wang, X., Surdeanu, M., Demir, E., & Morrison, C. T. (2017, September). Large-scale Automated Reading with Reach Discovers New Cancer Driving Mechanisms. In BioCreative VI Workshop (BioCreative6 2017).
• Brau, E., Dawson, C. R., Carillo, A., Sidi, D., & Morrison, C. T. (2016, February). Bayesian inference of recursive sequences of group activities from tracks. In The Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016).
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  Full paper at competitive conference, double-blind review with acceptance rate of 26% (549 accepted out of 2132 submissions)
• Gorji-Sefidmazgi, M., & Morrison, C. T. (2016, September). Spatiotemporal analysis of seasonal precipitation over US using co-clustering. In The 6th International Workshop on Climate Informatics (IC 2016).
• Shiaun Peng, K., & Morrison, C. T. (2016, July). Model predictive prior reinforcement learning for a heat pump thermostat. In The 11th International Workshop on Feedback Computing (FC 2016).
• Dykhuis, N. J., Rossi, F., & Morrison, C. T. (2015, June). Contributions to Teams Formed in Dynamic Networks. In The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM 2015).
• Guan, J., Brau, E., Simek, K., Morrison, C. T., Butler, E. A., & Barnard, K. J. (2015, July). Moderated and Drifting Linear Dynamical Systems. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2015).
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  This venue is a peer reviewed, competitive conference (acceptance rate: 26%) and the full paper is published as part of the conference proceedings
• Guan, J., Brau, E., Simek, K., Morrison, C. T., Butler, E. A., & Barnard, K. J. (2015, July). Moderated and Drifting Linear Dynamical Systems. In International Conference on Machine Learning.
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  This venue is a peer reviewed, competitive conference (acceptance rate: 26%) and the full paper is published as part of the conference proceedings [ CSRanking endorsed, A* ]
• Hamilton, C. W., Palafox, L. F., & Morrison, C. T. (2015, June-July). Automated detection of geologic changes on Mars using Bayesian models. In International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, General Assembly, 26.

Poster Presentations

• Hamilton, C. W., Palafox Novack, L. F., & Morrison, C. T. (2015, June-July). Automated detection of geologic changes on Mars using Bayesian models. The 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). Prague, the Czech Republic.