Selected Publications


Books

Carberry, Sandra. Plan Recognition in Natural Language Dialogue, ACL-MIT Press Series on Natural Language Processing, MIT Press, 1990.

Carberry, Sandra, A. Toni Cohen, and Hatem Khalil. Principles of Computer Science: Concepts, Algorithms, Data Structures, and Applications, Computer Science Press, 1986

Carberry, Sandra, Hatem Khalil, James Leathrum, and Leon Levy. Foundations of Computer Science, Computer Science Press, 1979.
Previously published as General Computer Science, Charles Merrill Company, 1976


Selected Journal Papers, Conference Papers, and Book Chapters

Publications:

  Sandra Carberry and Stephanie Elzer.  Exploiting Evidence Analysis in Plan Recognition.  Proceedings of  International Conference on User Modeling (UM-07), 2007. (received Springer Best Paper Award) pdf version

Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Stephanie Elzer.   Effectively Realizing the Inferred Message of an Information Graphic. Proceedings of Recent Advanced in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), 2007.

  Stephanie Elzer, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir, and Peng Wu.  A Browser Extension for Providing Visually Impaired Users Access to the Content of Bar Charts on the Web.  Proceedings of  International Conference on Web Information Systems (WEBIST), 2007. pdf version

  Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, and Seniz Demir.  Information Graphics: An Untapped Resource for Digital Libraries.  Proceedings of  9th International ACM SigIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, pp. 581-588, 2006. pdf version

Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry, and James Hoffman.  A Model of Perceptual Task Effort for Bar Charts and its Role in Recognizing Intention.   International Journal on User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 16(1), pp. 1-30, 2006. (Received James Chen 2006 Award for Best Paper.)     pdf version

  Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, and Seniz Demir.  Communicative Signals as the Key to Automated Understanding of Simple Bar Charts.   (received Best Pasper Award) International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, 2006.   

  Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, Ingrid Zukerman, Daniel Chester, Nancy Green, and Seniz Demir.  A Probabilistic Framework for Recognizing Intention in Information Graphics.   Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05), 2005.    pdf version

  Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir, Nancy Green, and Ingrid Zukerman.  Exploring and Exploiting the Limitied Utility of Captions in Recognizing Intention in Information Graphics.   Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05), pp. 223-230, 2005.    pdf version

  Terrence Harvey, Sandra Carberry, and Keith Decker.  Tailored Responses for Decision Support.   Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on User Modeling (UM-05), 2005.    pdf version

  Terrence Harvey, Keith Decker, and Sandra Carberry.  Multi-Agent Decision Support Via User Modeling.   Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2005.    pdf version

  Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry, and James Hoffman.  Incorporating Perceptual Task Effort into the Recognition of Intention in Information Graphics.   Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, pp. 255-270, 2004.    pdf version

Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Kathleen McCoy, and Daniel Chester.   Extending Document Summarization to Information Graphics.  Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Text Summarization, pp. 3-9, 2004    pdf version

Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, and Sandra Carberry.  Exploiting Cognitive Psychology Research for Recognizing Intention in Information Graphics.  Proceedings of the Cognitive Society Conference, 2003.     pdf version

Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Kathleen McCoy, and Daniel Chester.  Understanding Information Graphics: A Discourse-Level Problem, Proceedings of SigDial, 2003.     pdf version

Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen McCoy.  Extending Plan Inference Techniques to Recognize Intentions in Information Graphics.  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on User Modeling,  pp. 122-132, 2003.    pdf version

 Sandra Carberry, Lynn Lambert, and Leah Schroeder.  Toward Recognizing and Conveying an Attitude of Doubt Via Natural Language.  Applied Artificial Intelligence,  16(7), pp. 495-517, 2002.    postscript version

Sandra Carberry, Ken Samuel, K. Vijay-Shanker, and Andrew Wilson. Randomized Rule Selection in Transformation-Based Learning: A Comparative Study. Natural Language Engineering, 7(2), pp. 99-116, 2001. postscript version

Sandra Carberry. Techniques for Plan Recognition. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 11(1-2), pp. 31-48, 2001. postscript version

Kathleen McCoy, Sandra Carberry, Tom Roper, and Nancy Green.  Towards Generating Textual Summaries of Graphs.  Proceedings of the 1rst International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, 2001.

Chu-Carroll, Jennifer and Sandra Carberry. Conflict Resolution in Collaborative Planning Dialogues. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(6) pp.~969-1015, 2000.

Schroeder, Leah and Sandra Carberry. Realizing Expressions of Doubt in Collaborative Dialogue. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pp. 740-746, 2000.

Green, Nancy and Sandra Carberry. Interpreting and Generating Indirect Answers. Computational Linguistics, 25(3), pp. 389-435, 1999.

Samuel, Ken and Sandra Carberry and K. Vijayashanker. Automatically Selecting Useful Phraes for Dialogue Act Tagging. Proceeding of the Meeting of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, 1999.

Carberry, Sandra and Lynn Lambert. A Process Model for Recognizing Communicative Acts and Modeling Negotiation Subdialogues. Computational Linguistics, 25(1), pp. 1-53, 1999.  postscript version

Green, Nancy and Sandra Carberry. A Computational Mechanism for Initiative in Answer Generation. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 9(1-2), pp. 93-132, 1999.

Carberry, Sandra, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Stephanie Elzer. Constructing and Utilizing a Model of User Preferences in Collaborative Consultation Dialogues. Computational Intelligence Journal, 15(3), pp. 185-217, 1999. zipped postscript version

Webber, Bonnie, Sandra Carberry, John R. Clarke, Abigail Gertner, Terrence Haarvey, Ron Ryman, and Richard Washington. Exploiting Multiple Goals and Intentions in Decision Support for the Management of Multiple Trauma: A Review of the TraumAID Project. Artificial Intelligence Journal , 105(1-2), pp. 263-293, 1998.

Chu-Carroll, Jennifer and Sandra Carberry. Collaborative Response Generation in Planning Dialogues. Computational Linguistics 24(3), pp. 355-400, 1998.

Samuel, Ken, Sandra Carberry, and K. Vijay-Shanker. An Investigation of Transformation-Based Learning in Discourse. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pp. 497-505, 1998.

Samuel, Ken, Sandra Carberry, and K. Vijay-Shanker. Dialogue Act Tagging with Transformation-Based Learning. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 1150-1156, 1998.

Harvey, Terrence and Sandra Carberry. Integrating Text Plans for Conciseness and Coherence. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 512-518, 1998.

Carberry, Sandra, Terrence Harvey, and John R. Clarke M.D. Integrating Communicative Goals for Real-time Clinical Decision Support. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium, pp. 734-738, 1997.

Carberry, Sandra and John R. Clarke M.D. TraumaCASE: Exploiting the Knowledge Base of an Existing Decision Support System to Automatically Construct Medical Cases. Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, pp. 456-466, 1997.

Carberry, Sandra and Terrence Harvey. Generating Coherent Messages in Real-time Decision Support: Exploiting Discourse Theory for Discourse Practice. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 79-84, 1997.

Carberry, Sandra and John R. Clarke M.D. Generating Clinical Exercises of Varying Difficulty. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on User Modeling, pp. 273-275, 1997.
Carberry, Sandra and John Clarke and Abigail Gertner. Automatic Construction of Medical Cases for Training and Testing Using the Knowledge Base of an Existing Decision Support System. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, pp.~16-20, 1996.

Chu-Carroll, Jennifer and Sandra Carberry. Generating Information-Sharing Subdialogues in Expert-User Consultation. Proceedings fo the 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp.~1243-1250, Aug., 1995.

Chu-Carroll, Jennifer and Sandra Carberry. Conflict Detection and Resolution in Collaborative Planning. Proceedings of the IJCAI-95 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, pp.~67-79, Aug. 1995.

Chu- Carroll, Jennifer and Sandra Carberry. Response Generation in Collaborative Negotiation. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp.~136-143, June 1995.

Chu-Carroll, Jennifer and Sandra Carberry. Communication for Conflict Resolution in Multi-Agent Collaborative Planning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, pp.~49-56, June 1995.

Elzer, Stephanie and Jennifer Chu-Carroll and Sandra Carberry. Recognizing and Utilizing User Preferences in Collaborative Consultation Dialogues. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on User Modeling, pp.~19-24, 1994.

Chu-Carroll, Jennifer and Sandra Carberry. A Plan-Based Model for Response Generation in Collaborative Task-Oriented Dialogues. Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp.~799-805, 1994.

Green, Nancy and Sandra Carberry. A Hybrid Reasoning Model for Indirect Answers. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp.~58-65, 1994.

Green, Nancy and Sandra Carberry. Generating Indirect Answers to Yes-No Questions. Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, pp.~189-198, 1994.

Chu-Carroll, Jennifer and Sandra Carberry. Collaborative Interagent Communication: Architectural Requirements. Proceedings of the AAAI-94 Workshop on Planning for Interagent Communication, pp.~11-16, 1994.

Carberry, Sandra and Jennifer Chu. User Models and Dialog Systems. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Allen Kent, Editor, pp.~348-366, Marcel Dekker Publishers, 1994. Also appeared in Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, Allen Kent and James G. Williams, Editors, Marcel Dekker Publishers, 1993.

Carberry, Sandra and Alan Pope. Plan Recognition Strategies for Language Understanding. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. vol. 39, pp. 529-577, 1993

Green, Nancy and Sandra Carberry. A Discourse Plan-Based Approach to a Class of Particularized Conversational Implicature. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, pp.117-128, 1993.

Carberry, Sandra and Jennifer Chu and Lynn Lambert. User-System Conflict in Task-Oriented Consultation. Proceedings of the 1993 IJCAI Workshop on Computational Models of Conflict Managementi, pp. 41-53, 1993.

Carberry, Sandra and Jennifer Chu and Nancy Green and Lynn Lambert. Rhetorical Structure Theory: Necessary but not Sufficient. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations, 1993.

Sarner, Margaret and Sandra Carberry. Generating Tailored Definitions Using a Multifaceted User Model. International Journal on User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, pp. 181-210, 1992.

Lambert, Lynn and Sandra Carberry. Modeling Negotiation Subdialogues. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 193-200, Newark, Delaware, 1992.

Green, Nancy and Sandra Carberry. Conversational Implicatures in Indirect Replies. Proceedings of the 30th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL-92, pp. 64-71, 1992.

Mooney, David and Sandra Carberry and Kathleen McCoy. Capturing High-Level Structure of Naturally-Occurring Extended Explanations Using Bottom-up Strategies. Computational Intelligence Journal, pp. 334-356, 1991.

Lambett, Lynn and Sandra Carberry. A Tripartite Plan-Based Model of Dialogue. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the ACL, pp. 47-54, 1991.


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