Publications

• The Deaf Writing Project(ICICLE)
  
  
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
  
  
• Summarization
  
  
• Summarizing Graphical Information
  
  
• Natural Language Generation
  
  
• Pronoun Generation
  
  
• Focus of Attention
  
  

The Deaf Writing Project (ICICLE)

2002

• "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.
  
  
• "Building a Better Teacher: Adapting to the User's Grammar in CALL", Lisa N. Michaud and Kathleen F. McCoy. Submitted for Journal Publication.
  
  
• "Empirical Derivation of a Sequence of User Stereotypes," Lisa N. Michaud and Kathleen F. McCoy. Accepted for publication, User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction.
  
  

  2001

• "Modeling the Acquisition of English: an Intelligent CALL Approach," Lisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy, and Litza A. Stark. In Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on User Modeling, July 13-17, 2001, Sonthofen, Germany. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2109, pages 14-23, Springer. ©Springer-Verlag, 2001.
  [abstract] [postscript (176K)] [pdf (308K)]
  
  
• "Error Profiling: Toward a Model of English Acquisition for Deaf Learners," Lisa N. Michaud and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2001), July 5-11, 2001, Toulouse, France, pages 386-393. ©Association for Computational Linguistics, 2001.
  [abstract] [postscript (112K)] [pdf (108K)]
  
  

  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)]
  

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

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.
  [postscript(446k)] [pdf(23k)]
  
  

  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.
  [abstract] [postscript(662k)] [pdf(70k)] [doc(845k)]
  
  

  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.
  [postscript(139k)] [pdf(248k)]
  
  
• "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.
  [abstract] [postscript(46k)] [pdf(27k)]
  
  
• "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.
  [postscript(248k)] [pdf(140k)]
  
  
• "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.
  [abstract] [postscript(338k)] [pdf(190k)]
  
  

  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.
  [postscript(249k)]
  
  
• "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.
  [abstract] [text(48k)] [postscript(158k)]
  
  
• "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.
  [abstract] [text(14k)] [postscript(86k)]
  
  

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.
  [abstract]
  
  
• "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.
  [abstract] [text(14k)] [postscript(75k)]
  
  
• "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.
  [abstract] [text(13k)] [postscript(67k)]
  
  

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.
  [abstract] [text(51k)] [postscript(125k)]
  
  
• "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.
  [abstract] [text(14k)] [postscript(79k)]
  
  

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.
  [abstract] [text(14k)] [postscript(79k)]
  
  
• "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.
  [abstract] [text(5k)] [postscript(52k)]
  
  
• "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.
  [abstract] [text(21k)] [postscript(77k)]
  
  

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.
  [abstract]
  
  

Summarization

2002

• "Efficiently Computed Lexical Chains As an Intermediate Representation for Automatic Text Summarization," H. Gregory Silber and Kathleen F. McCoy. Computational Linguistics, to appear.
  [postscript of camera-ready copy(78K)] [pdf of camera-ready copy(124K)]
  
  

  2000

• "An Efficient Text Summarizer Using Lexical Claims," H. Gregory Silber and Kathleen McCoy, In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation, INLG '2000, pp. 268-271, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, June, 2000.
  [postscript(105K)] [pdf(229K)]
  
  
• "Efficient Text Summarization Using Lexical Chains," H. Gregory Silber and Kathleen McCoy. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI2000, pp.252-255, New Orleans, January, 2000.
  [abstract]
  Copyright does not allow this publication to be put up on the web -- please contact mccoy@cis.udel.edu to request a copy of this paper.
  

Summarizing Graphical Information

2001

• "Invited Submission, "Towards Generating Textual Summaries of Graphs," Kathleen F. McCoy, M. Sandra Carberry, Tom Roper, and Nancy Green. To appear in the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, August 5-10, 2001, New Orleans, LA, USA.
  
  

Natural Language Generation

2002

• "Selectional restrictions in natural language sentence generation," Raymond Kozlowski, Kathleen F. McCoy, and K. Vijay-Shanker. In Proceedings of Sixth World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, 2002.
  [postscript(307K)] [pdf(178K)]
  
  

  1993

• "Observations and Directions in Text Structure," John Hughes and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations , at the 31st Annual Meeting of the ACL, Ohio State University, June, 1993.
  
  

  1992

• "A Functional Approach to Generation with TAG," Kathleen F. McCoy, K. Vijay-Shanker, Gijoo Yang. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 1992.
  [abstract] [postscript(145 K)] [pdf(154 K)]
  
  
• "Transparently-Motivated Metaphor Generation," Mark Jones and Kathleen F. McCoy, in Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation, 6th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Trento, Italy, April 1992, Proceedings, R. Dale, E. Hovy, D. Rosner, O. Stock (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 231-246, 1992.
  [abstract]
  
  

  1991

• "From functional specification to syntactic structures: Systemic grammar and tree-adjoining grammars," Gijoo Yang, Kathleen F. McCoy, & K. Vijay-Shanker. Computational Intelligence, 7(4) - Special Issue on Natural Language Generation, 1991.
  
  
• "Capturing high-level structure of naturally-occurring, extended explanations using bottom-up strategies," David J. Mooney, M. Sandra Carberry & Kathleen F. McCoy. Computational Intelligence, 7(4) - Special Issue on Natural Language Generation, 1991.
  
  
• "The Need for Bottom-up Strategies for Generating High-level Structure," David J. Mooney, M. Sandra Carberry & Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of the AAAI-91 Workshop on Comparative Analysis of Explanation Planning Architectures, Anaheim, CA, July, 1991.
  
  

  1990

• "The Generation of High-Level Structure For Extended Explanations," David J. Mooney, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING90, Helsinki, Finland, August, 1990.
  
  

  1989

• "Generating Context Sensitive Responses to Object-Related Misconceptions," Kathleen F. McCoy. Artificial Intelligence, Vol 41, pp. 157-195, 1989.
  
  
• "Focusing Your RST: A Step Toward Generating Coherent Multisentential Text," Eduard Hovy and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Ann Arbor, MI, August, 1989.
  
  

Pronoun Generation

1999

• "Taking Time to Structure Discourse: Pronoun Generation Beyond Accessibility", Kathleen F. McCoy and Michael Strube. In Proceedings of the 1999 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1999.
  [postscript (87K)], [pdf (53K)]
  
  
• "Generating Anaphoric Expressions: Pronoun or Definite Description?", Kathleen F. McCoy and Michael Strube. In The The Relation of Discourse/Dialogue Structure and Reference, Proceedings of the Workshop, held in Conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide, and Daniel Marcu (eds), pp. 63 -- 71, 21 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
  [postscript (99K)], [pdf (64K)]
  
  
• "Building a Tool for Annotating Reference in Discourse", Jonathan DeCristofaro, Michael Strube, and Kathleen F. McCoy. In The The Relation of Discourse/Dialogue Structure and Reference, Proceedings of the Workshop, held in Conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide, and Daniel Marcu (eds), pp. 54 -- 62, 21 June 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
  [postscript (1108K)], [pdf (109K)]

Focus of Attention

1999

• "A Methodology for Extending Focusing Frameworks," Linda Z. Suri and Kathleen F. McCoy, and Jonathon D. DeCristofaro. Computational Linguistics, pp. 173-194, 25(2), June, 1999.
  
  

  1995

• "A Methodology for Extending Focusing Frameworks," Linda Z. Suri and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of the 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium on Empirical Methods in Discourse, Stanford University, CA, March, 1995.
  [postscript(325 K)] [pdf(140 K)]
  

  1994

• "RAFT/RAPR and Centering: A Comparison and Discussion of Problems Related to Processing Complex Sentences," Linda Z. Suri and Kathleen F. McCoy, Computational Linguistics, Vol. 20, No. 2, Squibs and Discussions, pp. 301-317, June, 1994.
  
  

  1993

• "Focusing and Pronoun Resolution in Particular Kinds of Complex Sentences," Linda Z. Suri and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Centering Theory in Naturally-Occurring Discourse, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, May, 1993.
  
  
• "Comparing Local Focusing and Centering," Linda Z. Suri and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Centering Theory in Naturally-Occurring Discourse, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, May, 1993.
  
  

  1991

• "Focus of Attention: Constraining What Can Be Said Next," Kathleen F. McCoy and Jeannette Cheng. In Natural Language Generation in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics, Cecile L. Paris, William R. Swartout, and William C. Mann, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.