ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

We promote and support the growth and application of AI principles and techniques throughout computing

VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1, 2025

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Individual Articles

1. Table of Contents

2. Letter from Chairs
By Nicholas Mattei and Sanmay Das

3. Mentored Undergraduate Research Challenge
By Tri Dang, Hieu Tran, Brian Howard, Sutthirut Charoenphon, and Dat Nguyen

4. Decoding the Chameleon Game
By Arikka Cherniwchan, Austin Countaway, Chunyang Ding, Brandon Funk, and Calin Anton

5. Adapting BERT for ‘Apples to Apples’ Gameplay
By Arikka Cherniwchan, Austin Countaway, Chunyang Ding, Brandon Funk, and Calin Anton

6. Interpolating Humour – Can Lines Be Funny
By Oscar De Leon, Isaac McCracken, Kevin Ulliac, and Calin Anton

7. Semantic, Orthographic, and Morphological Biases in Humans’ Wordle Gameplay
By Jiadong (Gary) Liang, Adam Kabbara, Cindy Liu, Ronaldo Luo, Kina Kim, and Michael Guerzhoy

8. An N-Gram Framework for Sentiment and Emotion-Aware Word Association Games
By Rohan Dalal, Sanjana Menon, Sohan Hajra, and Jeremy Blum, D.Sc.

9. Conference Reports
Compiled by Ella Scallan

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AI Matters is a quarterly newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI) that features ideas and announcements of interest to the AI community. AI Matters is archived and made available in the ACM Digital Library. In addition, the newsletter is also emailed to SIGAI members and made publicly available on the SIGAI Website.

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Editor-In-Chief:

  • Iolanda Leite, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Anuj Karpatne, Virginia Tech
  • Ziyu Yao, George Mason University

Editorial Board:

  • Sanmay Das, George Mason University
  • Alexei Efros, University of California at Berkeley
  • Susan L. Epstein, The City University of New York
  • Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California
  • Doug Lange, SPAWAR Systems Center, US Navy
  • Kiri Wagstaff, JPL/Caltech
  • Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Nicholas Mattei, Tulane University

Editor emerita:

  • Kiri Wagstaff, JPL/Caltech (founding Editor-In-Chief)
  • Eric Eaton, University of Pennsylvania
  • Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma