A Mechanical Design Language Interpreter

The following is the presentation I for my qualifying exam. The presentation gives an overview of my research for the doctoral research program.

Slide One - Introduction

Slide Two - Learning Features from Geometry

Slide Three - Learning Concepts from Design Text

Slide Four - "Smart Drawings" for the Design Kiosk

Slide Five - A "Smart Drawing"

Slide Six - From Information to Concepts

Slide Seven - Experimentation

Slide Eight - Natural Language / Information Retrieval

Slide Nine - Learning the Context

Slide Ten - Machine Learning - Clustering

Slide Eleven - Machine Learning - Belief Networks

Slide Twelve - Results - Belief Networks

Slide Thirteen - Interpretations of Network

Slide Fourteen - Intelligent Retrieval

Slide Fifteen - Summary and Future Directions