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A K Mackworth

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Evaluation of gene-finding programs on mammalian sequences.

We present an independent comparative analysis of seven recently developed gene-finding programs: FGENES, GeneMark.hmm, Genie, Genescan, HMMgene, Morgan, and MZEF. For evaluation purposes we developed a new, thoroughly filtered, and biologically validated dataset of mammalian genomic sequences that does not overlap with the training sets of the programs analyzed. Our analysis shows that the new generation of programs has substantially better results than the programs analyzed in previous studies. The accuracy of the programs was also examined as a function of various sequence and prediction features, such as G + C content of the sequence, length and type of exons, signal type, and score of the exon prediction. This approach pinpoints the strengths and weaknesses of each individual program as well as those of computational gene-finding in general. The dataset used in this analysis (HMR195) as well as the tables with the complete results are available at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rogic/evaluation/.

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Model-driven interpretation in intelligent vision systems.

With a constructive knowledge-based theory of perception as its foundation, this paper starts with a review and critique of some artificial-intelligence programs that purport to see. It is then argued that these computer programs for scene analysis offer the hope of providing a more adequate account oo the current psychological theories. This thesis has several aspects. The one emphasized here is that those programs have explored a variety of methods of incorporating a priori knowledge of objects through the use of models. After outlining the range of models used, presenting a set of criteria for evaluating the use of model information, and sketching some psychological theories, the various proposals are contrasted. This discussion leads to two new proposals for exploiting model information that involve elaborations of an existing program, POLY.

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