Deaf Writing Project Publications

2001

• "Recognizing Errors in the Written English of ASL Users: Influences of 2nd Language Acquisition," Kathleen F. McCoy and Lisa N. Michaud. Journal article under preparation.
  
  
• "Modeling the Acquisition of English: an Intelligent CALL Approach," Lisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy, and Litza A. Stark. To appear in Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on User Modeling, July 13-17, 2001, Sonthofen, Germany.
  
  
• "Error Profiling: Toward a Model of English Acquisition for Deaf Learners," Lisa N. Michaud and Kathleen F. McCoy To appear in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2001), July 6-11, 2001, Toulouse, France.
  
  

  2000

• "An Intelligent Tutoring System for Deaf Learners of Written English," Lisa Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy, and Chris A. Pennington. In Proceedings of ASSETS 2000, November 13-15, 2000.
  [abstract] [pdf (137K)]
  
• "Supporting Intelligent Tutoring in CALL by Modeling the User's Grammar," Lisa N. Michaud and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium, Special Track on Artificial Intelligence in Instructional Software, May 22-24, Orlando, Florida, 2000.
  [abstract] [postscript (281K)] [pdf (149K)]
  

  1999

• "Modeling User Language Proficiency in a Writing Tutor for Deaf Learners of English," Lisa N. Michaud and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer-Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing, an ACL-IALL Workshop, College Park, Maryland, June 22, 1999.
  [abstract] [postscript (308K)] [pdf (164K) ]
  

  1998

• "Recognizing Syntactic Errors in the Writing of Second Language Learners", David A. Schneider and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of Coling-ACL-98, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, August 10-14, 1998.
  [abstract] [pdf(194K)] [postscript(328k)]
  
• "Planning Tutorial Text in a System for Teaching English as a Second Language to Deaf Learners", Lisa N. Michaud and Kathleen F. McCoy. In 1998 AAAI Workshop on Integrating Intelligence and Assistive Technology, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998.
  [abstract] [postscript(317K)]

  1997

• "A Tutor for Teaching English as a Second Language for Deaf Users of American Sign Language", Kathleen F. McCoy and Lisa N. Masterman. In Proceedings of Natural Language Processing for Communication Aids, an ACL/EACL '97 Workshop, Madrid, Spain, July 12, 1997.
  [abstract] [postscript(391K)]

  1996

• "A Writing Tool for Users of American Sign Language," Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher A. Pennington, and Linda Z. Suri. In Proceedings of the 1996 AAAI Fall Symposium on Developing Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November, 1996.
  
  
• "Considering the Effects of Second Language Learning on Generation," Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher A. Pennington, and Linda Z. Suri. In Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Workshop, Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, UK, June, 1996.
  
  
• "English Error Correction: A Syntactic User Model Based on Principled 'Mal-Rule' Scoring," Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher Pennington, Linda Z. Suri. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on User Modeling, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, January, 1996. Awarded Conference Best Paper Prize.
  [abstract] [text(45k)] [postscript(389k)]
  
  

  1994

• "Developing a Writing Tool for Deaf Writers," Linda Z. Suri, and Kathleen F. McCoy. TAM'94, (Technology and Media Conference for Exceptional Children), St. Paul, Minnesota, February, 1994.
  
  

  1993

• "Correcting Discourse-Level Errors in a CALL System for Second Language Learners," Linda Z. Suri and Kathleen F. McCoy, Computer Assisted Language Learning, 6(3), pp. 215-231, 1993.
  [abstract] [postscript(154k)]
  
  
• "A methodology for developing an error taxonomy for a computer assisted language learning tool for second language learners," Linda Z. Suri and Kathleen F. McCoy Technical Report 93-16, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
  [abstract] [pdf] [postscript (50K)]
  
• "Correcting discourse-level errors in a CALL system for second language learners," Linda Z. Suri and Kathleen F. McCoy. Technical Report 94-02, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
  [abstract] [pdf] [postscript (50K)]
  

  1991

• "Language transfer in deaf writing: A correction methodology for an instructional system," Linda Z. Suri and Kathleen F. McCoy. Technical Report 91-20. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware.
  [ [abstract] [text] [postscript (50K)]