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Thomas Hinrichs

Research Associate Professor

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Qualitative Reasoning Group

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Computer Science

Research Interests

I am a research associate professor at Northwestern University. My research interests are interactive performance-support systems for design, case-based and analogical reasoning, qualitative reasoning and simulation, and natural language processing. I'm currently working on developing Long-Lived Learning Software Companions for the AFOSR Robust Computational Intelligence program.

Selected Publications

• Hinrichs, T.R. and Forbus, K.D. (2013). X Goes First: Teaching Simple Games through Multimodal Interaction In Advances in Cognitive Systems, Volume 3, 2014, pages 31-46.

  Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch/WX8Zo3soWSw

• Hinrichs, T.R. and Forbus, K.D. (2013) Beyond the Rational Player: Amortizing Type-Level Goal Hierarchies ACS-13 Workshop on Goal Reasoning, December, 2013.

• McFate, C.J., Forbus, K.D., and Hinrichs, T.R. (2013). Using Narrative Function to Extract Qualitative Information from Natural Language Texts: A Preliminary Report. In Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Bremen, Germany, August 2013.

• Hinrichs, T.R. and Forbus, K.D. (2012). Learning Qualitative Models by Demonstration In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 207-213, Toronto, CA, July 2012.

• Hinrichs, T.R. and Forbus, K.D. (2012). Toward Higher-Order Qualitative Representations. In Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Playa Vista, CA, July 2012.

• Hinrichs, T., Forbus, K., de Kleer, J., Yoon, S., Jones, E., Hyland, R., and Wilson, J. (2011). Hybrid Qualitative Simulation of Military Operations. Proceedings of the 23rd Innovative Applications for Artificial Intelligence Conference, pp. 1655-1661, San Francisco, CA.

• Hinrichs, T. and Forbus, K. (2011). Transfer Learning Through Analogy in Games. AI Magazine 32(1), Spring 2011, pages 72-83.

• Forbus, K., Hinrichs, T., de Kleer, J., & Usher, J. (2010). FIRE: Infrastructure for Experience-based Systems with Common Sense. AAAI Fall Symposium on Commonsense Knowledge, Arlington, VA.