Publications
-- For a more up-to-date view, please see my
vita which contains urls for many of my publications.
For a more up-to-date view, please see my
vita which contains urls for many of my publications.
Please contact me for copies of papers where a free url is not provided.
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.
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"Building a Better Teacher: Adapting to the User's Grammar in CALL",
Lisa N. Michaud and Kathleen F. McCoy. Submitted for Journal
Publication.
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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)]
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"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)]
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"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.
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