External Support

• Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Grant Number: 5 RO1 DC003670-06, ``Communicative Competence and the Use of Prestored Text''. PI: Jan L. Bedrosian (Western Michigan University), Co-PI's: Linda A. Hoag and Kathleen F. McCoy. 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2008, $996,858 (expected). UD subcontract amount approx. $170,000.
  
  
• U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Award Number: H133G040051, ``Enhancing AAC Communication through Improved Access to Fringe Vocabulary Words'', PI: Kathleen F. McCoy, co-PI's: Rupal Patel (Northeastern University) and Christopher A. Pennington (AgoraNet Inc.). 11/01/2004 - 10/31/2007 (expected), $449,975.
  
  
• Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Grant Number: 1-R01-DC03670-01A3, "Communicative Competence and the Use of Prestored Text." PI: Jan L. Bedrosian (Western Michigan University), Co-PI's: Linda A. Hoag, and Kathleen F. McCoy. 02/01/2001 - 01/31/2004, anticipated $826,100 over 3 years. UD subcontract amount $140,200.
  
  
• Program for Gender Equity in Science, Engineering, and Technology, EHR/Human Resource Development, National Science Foundation,Award Number HRD-0086424, "SEP -- An Experiment in Engaging High School and Undergraduate Women in Computer Science," PI: Lori L. Pollock, Co-PI's: M. Sandra Carberry and Kathleen F. McCoy. $99,992, 1/1/2001 - 6/30/2002.
  
  
• NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, Universal Access Program, Award Number: IIS-9978021, "Investigating Multi-Modality Tutoring: Toward Computer-Based Written English Support for Deaf Children." PI: Kathleen F. McCoy, Co-PI: Christopher A. Pennington. Start 8/15/99-7/31/2003, $447, 224 over 3 years.
  
  
• Korean Government Ministry of Science and Technology, "Development of a Bilingual Internet Search Machine", a subcontract on project awarded to Gijoo Yan and Dongguk University. 30,000,000 won for Oct, 1997-Sept, 2000. Principle Investigator: Kathleen F. McCoy.



• Research Opportunities for Undergraduates, Supplement to NSF Interactive Systems, "An Exploratory System to Teach English as a Second Language to Deaf Students with American Sign Language Competency", June 1997-March 1998, supplement amount $5,250. Principle Investigator: Kathleen F. McCoy.



• Supplement award to NSF Traineeships for Natural Language Human-Computer Interfaces", May 1997-August 1997, supplement amount $6,500. Co-PI's: Sandra Carberry, Kathleen F. McCoy, and K. Vijayashanker.
  
  
• Research Opportunities for Undergraduates, Supplement to NSF Interactive Systems, "An Exploratory System to Teach English as a Second Language to Deaf Students with American Sign Language Competency", June 1996-March 1998, supplement amount $5,250. Principle Investigator: Kathleen F. McCoy.



• Dept. of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Small Business Research Program, Phase I Grant, "A Communication Aid Enhanced with Semantic Parsing," in conjunction with the Prentke Romich Company. September 30, 1995 - September 29, 1996. Subcontract amount $39,923. Co-PI's: Patrick Demasco and Kathleen F. McCoy.
  
  
• NSF Interactive Systems Program, "An Exploratory System to Teach English as a Second Language to Deaf Students with American Sign Language Competency," April 1995 - March 1998, amount $218,772. Principle investigator: Kathleen F. McCoy.
  
  
• "NSF Traineeships for Natural Language Human-Computer Interfaces," Funded for $537,500, September 1994 - August 1999. Co-PI's: Sandra Carberry, Kathleen F. McCoy, and K. Vijayashanker.
  
  
• The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, "Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative Communication," 20% support provided from June 1993 - August 1998. Principle Investigators: Richard Foulds and Patrick Demasco.
  
  
• NSF Division of Information Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Research Initiation Award entitled "Natural Language Processing Principles for Improving Deaf Writing," September 1990 - August 1992, amount $45,371. Principle investigator: Kathleen F. McCoy.
  
  
• The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, "Rehabilitation Engineering Center on Augmentative Communication," 20% support provided from June 1987 - August 1990 (10% support provided from June 91 - August 1992). Principle Investigator: Richard Foulds and Patrick Demasco.
  
  
• University of Delaware Research Foundation Grant entitled "Contextual Effects on a Knowledge Base: Choosing an Active Perspective," from January 1987 to June 1988, amount $12,000. Principle Investigator: Kathleen F. McCoy.
  
  
• NSF Division of Computer Research, Computer Research Equipment Grant, 1987. Co-principle investigators: Dan Chester and Sandra Carberry, $54,398.