Just when you thought you might actually have to pay attention to that talk at AAAI (you know the one), along comes the AAAI 2005 Word Search Puzzle. It’s new, it’s improved, it’s old-fashioned, and ‘AI’ is particularly easy to find (more than once if you so desire).

As with each of the previous puzzles (such as this one, this one, or even this one), the terms (generously provided by Tim “Rack-Mount” Finin) were interlinked using a heuristic best-first search that favors shared letters, small diagrams and a uniform distribution of word directions. The empty cells were filled using a character 4-gram language model derived from the entries themselves.

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1. Semantic Web Word Search
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3. AAAI Symposium: Agents and the Semantic Web
4. AAAI to hold Texas Holdem competition for computers
5. AI and the Web at AAAI-07