Relevant Other Publications

Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, and Ingrid Zukerman. The Automated Understanding of Simple Bar Charts. AI Journal, vol. 175, Number 2, pages 526-555, 2011.
This paper presents our automated system for recognizing the intended message of a simple bar chart in popular media.

Peng Wu, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, and Daniel Chester. Recognizing the Intended Message of Line Graphs . Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams , pages 220-234, 2010.
This paper presents our work on recognizing the intended message of a line graph. It received the Cognitive Science Society Best Student Paper Award.

Richard Burns, Sandra Carberry, and Stephanie Elzer. Visual and Spatial Factors in a Bayesian Reasoning Framework for the Recognition of Intended Messages in Grouped Bar Charts. Proceedings of the AAAI workshop on Visual Representations and Reasoning , pages 6-13, 2010.
This paper discusses the communicative signals that appear in grouped bar charts and our ACT-R model for computationalizing one important kind of communicative signal: the relative effort involved in performing the perceptual tasks required for recognizing the message conveyed by a grouped bar chart.

Richard Burns, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, and Daniel Chester. Automatically Recognizing Intended Messages in Grouped Bar Charts. , Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Diagrams, pages 8-22, 2012.
This paper presents our work on recognizing the intended message of a grouped bar chart. It received the Cognitive Science Society Best Student Paper Award.