Skill in epistemology II: Skill and know how

Reading Skill and Language Skill

To learn to read is to acquire a visual language skill that systematically maps onto extant spoken language skills. Some children perform this task quite adeptly, while others encounter much difficulty, and it has become a question of both scientific and practical merit to ask why there exists such a range of success in learning to read. Obviously, learning to read places a complex burden on ma...

Player Skill Modeling in Starcraft II

Starcraft II is a popular real-time strategy (RTS) game, in which players compete with each other online. Based on their performance, the players are ranked in one of seven leagues. In our research, we aim at constructing a player model that is capable of predicting the league in which a player competes, using observations of their in-game behavior. Based on cognitive research and our knowledge...

Modeling player skill in Starcraft II

Skill Inference with Personal and Skill Connections

Personal skill information on social media is at the core of many interesting applications. In this paper, we propose a factor graph based approach to automatically infer skills from personal profile incorporated with both personal and skill connections. We first extract personal connections with similar academic and business background (e.g. co-major, co-university, and co-corporation). We the...

Skill Chaining: Skill Discovery in Continuous Domains

We introduce skill chaining, a skill discovery method for continuous domains. Skill chaining produces chains of skills leading to a salient event—where salience can be defined simply as an end-of-task reward, or as a more sophisticated heuristic (e.g., an intrinsically interesting event (Singh et al., 2004)). The goal of each skill in the chain is to reach a state where its successor skill can ...