Communication Aids Publications

2004

• "Informativeness and Speed of Message Delivery Trade-offs in Augmentative and Alternative Communication", Linda A. Hoag, Jan L. Bedrosian, Kathleen F. McCoy, and Dallas E. Johnson. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Vol 47, No. 6, pp. 1270-1285, December, 2004.
  
  
  

  2003

• "Relevance and Speed of Message Delivery Trade-offs in Augmentative and Alternative Communication:, Jan L. Bedrosian, Linda A. Hoag, and Kathleen F. McCoy. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Vol 46, Issue 4, pp. 800--817, August, 2003.
  
  
• "Pragmatic Theory and Utterance-Based Systems: Application of the Cooperative Principle", Kathleen F. McCoy (University of Delaware), Jan Bedrosian (Western Michigan University), Linda A. Hoag (Kansas State University). In Perspectives on Theory and Practice in Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Steven von Tetzchner and Mogens Hygum Jensen (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Research Symposium of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Odense, Denmark, August 2002. Copyright 2003 ISAAC.
  
  

  2001

• "Pragmatic Trade-offs in Utterance-Based Systems: Uncovering Technological Implications", Kathleen F. McCoy, Jan L. Bedrosian, and Linda A. Hoag. ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association), Division 12 Newsletter, pp. 23-29, December, 2001. Guest Editor: Jeff Higginbotham.
  
  

  2000

• "An Investigation of Grice's cooperation principle: Application to AAC," Jan Bedrosian, Linda Hoag, Kathleen McCoy, Christopher Pennington, and Richard Wright. In Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Conference of the International Society of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, (ISAAC '2000), pp. 708-710, Washington, DC, August, 2000.
  
  

  1999

• "The Role of Evaluation in Bringing NLP to AAC: A Case to Consider," Kathleen F. McCoy, and Dave Hershberger. In Augmentative and Alternative Communication: New Directions in Research and Practice, Filip T. Loncke, John Clibbens, Helen H. Arvidson, and Lyle L. Lloyd, Editors. Whurr Publishers, Ltd., London, pp. 105-122, 1999.
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  1998

• "Important Issues for Effectively Using Prestored Text in Augmentative Communication," Christopher A. Pennington, Kathleen F. McCoy, Jan L. Bedrosian, and Linda A. Hoag. In 1998 AAAI Workshop on Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Technology , pp. 48-54, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998.
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• "Compansion: From Research Prototype to Practical Integration," Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher A. Pennington, and Arlene Luberoff Badman. Natural Language Engineering, Volume 4, Part 1, pp. 73-95, March, 1998.
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• "Interface and Language Issues in Intelligent Systems for People with Disabilities", Kathleen F. McCoy. In Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Applications in Robotics, User Interfaces and Natural Language Processing, Vibhu Mittal, Holly Yanco and John Aronis, Editors. Volume 1458, Lecture Notes in AI Series, Springer, 1998.
  
  
• "Providing Intelligent Language Feedback for Augmentative Communication Users," Christopher A. Pennington and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Applications in Robotics, User Interfaces and Natural Language Processing, Vibhu Mittal, Holly Yanco and John Aronis, Editors. Volume 1458, Lecture Notes in AI Series, Springer, 1998.
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  1997

• "Simple NLP Techniques for Expanding Telegraphic Sentences", Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of Natural Language Processing for Communication Aids, an ACL/EACL '97 Workshop, Madrid, Spain, July 12, 1997.
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• "A Communication Aid with Artificial Intelligence: Communic-Ease Meets Semantic Parsing", Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher A. Pennington, and Arlene Luberoff Badman. In Proceedings of RESNA '97 20th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 1997.
  
  
• "Schema-Based Organization of Reusable Text in AAC: User-Interface Considerations", Terry L. Carpenter Jr;, Kathleen F. McCoy, and Christopher A. Pennington. In Proceedings of RESNA '97 20th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 1997.
  
  
• "Some Interface Issues in Developing Intelligent Communication Aids for People with Disabilities," Kathleen F. McCoy and Patrick W. Demasco. In Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI97, Orlando, Florida, January, 1997.
  
  

1996

• "The Intelligent Parser Generator: An Intelligent Language Aid for People with Cognitive Impairments," Kathleen F. McCoy, Patrick Demasco, John Gray, Christopher A. Pennington, Marjeta Cedilnik, Arlene Luberoff Badman, and Clifford Kushler. In Proceedings of the 1996 AAAI Fall Symposium on Developing Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November, 1996.
  
  
• "A Communication Aid Enhanced with Semantic Parsing," Cliff Kushler, Arlene Badman, Patrick Demasco, and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of the 7th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, August 1996.
  
  
• "A Preliminary Study into Schema-Based Access and Organization of Reusable Text in AAC," Peter B. Vanderheyden, Patrick W. Demasco, Kathleen F. McCoy, and Christopher A. Pennington. In Proceedings of RESNA '96 19th Annual Conference, June 1996.
  
  

1995

• "Some Applications of Natural Language Processing to the Field of Augmentative and Alternative Communication," Kathleen F. McCoy and Patrick Demasco. In Proceedings of the IJCAI-95 Workshop on Developing AI Applications for People with Disabilities, Montreal, Canada, August, 1995.
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• "A Lexical Database for Intelligent AAC Systems," Wendy M. Zickus, Kathleen F. McCoy, Patrick W. Demasco, and Christopher A. Pennington. In Proceedings of RESNA '95 18th Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C., June 1995.
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1994

• "A Communication Tool for People with Disabilities: Lexical Semantics for Filling in the Pieces," Kathleen F. McCoy, Patrick W. Demasco, Mark A. Jones, Christopher A. Pennington, Peter B. Vanderheyden, Wendy M. Zickus. In Proceedings of The First Annual International ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, Los Angeles, CA, 1994.
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• "AAC-User Therapist Interactions: Preliminary Linguistic Observations and Implications for COMPANSION," Kathleen F. McCoy, Wendy M. McKnitt, Denise M. Peischl, Christopher A. Pennington, Peter B. Vanderheydan, Patrick W. Demasco. In Proceedings of RESNA '94 17th Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, June, 1994.
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• "Developing AAC Systems that Model Intelligent Partner Interactions: Methodological Considerations." Peter B. Vanderheyden, Christopher A. Pennington, Denise M. Peischl, Wendy M. McKnitt, Kathleen F. McCoy, Patrick W. Demasco, Hans van Balkom, Harry Kanphuis. In Proceedings of RESNA '94 17th Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, June, 1994.
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1992

• "Generating Text From Compressed Input: An Intelligent Interface for People with Severe Motor Impairments," Patrick Demasco and Kathleen F. McCoy. Communications of the ACM, May, 1992.
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• "The Problem of Metaphor in Intelligent AAC Systems," Mark Jones, Kathleen McCoy, and Patrick Demasco. In Proceedings of RESNA '92 15th Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, 1992.
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1991

• "Knowledge Representation Considerations for a Domain Independent Semantic Parser," Mark Jones, Patrick Demasco, Kathleen McCoy, and Christopher Pennington. In Proceedings of RESNA '91 14th Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, 1991.
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• "Automatic Abbreviation Generation," Gregg M. Stum, Patrick W. Demasco, and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of RESNA '91 14th Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, 1991.
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• "Vocabulary Selection for Intelligent Parsing in an AAC System for Aphasics," Bruce R. Baker, Kathleen McCoy, Sheela Stuart, Eric H. Nyberg 3rd. In Proceedings of RESNA '91 14th Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, 1991.
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1990

• "Applying Natural Language Processing Techniques To Augmentative Communication Systems," Kathleen F. McCoy, Patrick Demasco, Mark Jones, Christopher Pennington, and Charles Rowe. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING90, Helsinki, Finland, August, 1990.
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