Publications

2023

Paul Landes, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Cornelia Caragea. DeepZensols: A Deep Learning Natural Language Processing Framework for Experimentation and Reproducibility. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop for Natural Language Processing Open Source Software (NLP-OSS), pp. 141-146, Singapore, Singapore, December 6, 2023.

Rochana Chaturvedi, Mudassir Rashid, Brian Layden, Andrew Boyd, A. Cinar, and Barbara Di Eugenio. Sequential Representation of Sparse Heterogeneous Data for Diabetes Risk Prediction. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Istanbul, Turkey, December 5-8, 2023.

Abari Bhattacharya, Abhinav Kumar, Barbara Di Eugenio, Roderick Tabalba, Jillian Aurisano, Veronica Grosso, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, and Moira Zellner. Reference Resolution and New Entities in Exploratory Data Visualization: From Controlled to Unconstrained Interactions with a Conversational Assistant. In Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), pp. 370-380, Prague, Czechia, September 13-15, 2023.

Afagh Mehri Shervedani, Siyu Li, Natawut Monaikul, Bahareh Abbasi, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Miloš Žefran. An End-to-End Human Simulator for Task-Oriented Multimodal Human-Robot Collaboration. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, Korea, August 28-31, 2023.

Mohammad Arvan, A. Seza Doğruöz, and Natalie Parde. Investigating Reproducibility at Interspeech Conferences: A Longitudinal and Comparative Perspective. In Proceedings of the 24th INTERSPEECH Conference (INTERSPEECH), Dublin, Ireland, August 20-24, 2023.

Mohammad Arvan, Mina Valizadeh, Parian Haghighat, Toan Nguyen, Heejin Jeong, and Natalie Parde. Linguistic Cognitive Load Analysis on Dialogues with an Intelligent Virtual Assistant. In Proceedings of the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Sydney, Australia, July 26-29, 2023.

Paul Landes, Aaron J. Chaise, Kunal P. Patel, Sean S. Huang, and Barbara Di Eugenio. Hospital Discharge Summarization Data Provenance. In Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (BioNLP), Toronto, Canada, July 13, 2023.

Shahla Farzana and Natalie Parde. Towards Domain-Agnostic and Domain-Adaptive Dementia Detection from Spoken Language. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023.

Maja Popović, Mohammad Arvan, Natalie Parde, and Anya Belz. Exploring Variation of Results from Different Experimental Conditions. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 (ACL Findings), Online, July 9-14, 2023.

Baris Karacan, Andrew D. Boyd, Karen Dunn Lopez, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Daniel Fraczkowski, Haleh Vatani, Carolyn Dickens, and Barbara Di Eugenio. Probing the EHR for Standardized Nursing Data. IEEE/ACM CHASE 2023, The International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, June 21-23, 2023. (Poster)

Karen Dunn Lopez, Natany da Costa Oberfrank, S. Aggarwal, Haleh Vatani, Paul Landes, A. Davis, A. Lindstrom, M. Nowak, Andrew D. Boyd, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, C. Wagner, Dan Fraczkowski, and Barbara Di Eugenio. Using NANDA-I nursing classifications to compare and harmonize disparate sources of care: handoff transcripts to locally derived electronic health record documentation. NANDA International Conference, Boston, MA, June 14-16, 2023. (Oral Presentation)

David A. Randolph, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Justin Badgerow. Modeling Piano Fingering Decisions with Conditional Random Fields. In Proceedings of the 2023 Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Stockholm, Sweden, June 12-17, 2023.

Natawut Monaikul and Barbara Di Eugenio. Detecting Interlingual Errors: The Case of Prepositions. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Corfu, Greece, June 2-5, 2023.

Karen Dunn Lopez, Natany da Costa Oberfrank, S. Aggarwal, Haleh Vatani, Paul Landes, A. Davis, A. Lindstrom, M. Nowak, Andrew D. Boyd, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, C. Wagner, Dan Fraczkowski, and Barbara Di Eugenio. Usefulness of nursing handoffs and locally derived nursing documentation for research: a pilot study. AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Clinical Informatics Conference, Chicago, IL, May 23-25, 2023. (Oral Presentation)

Dan Fraczkowski, Karen Dunn Lopez, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Carolyn Dickens, Barbara Di Eugenio, Zenaida Joson, Baris Karacan, and Andrew D. Boyd. Decoding the data: Transforming Vendor Derived Nursing Care plans for Research Use in a Leading Commercial EHR. AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Clinical Informatics Conference, Chicago, IL, May 23-25, 2023. (Oral Presentation)

Anya Belz, Craig Thomson, Ehud Reiter, Gavin Abercrombie, Jose M. Alonso-Moral, Mohammad Arvan, Jackie Cheung, Mark Cieliebak, Elizabeth Clark, Kees van Deemter, Tanvi Dinkar, Ondřej Dušek, Steffen Eger, Qixiang Fang, Albert Gatt, Dimitra Gkatzia, Javier González-Corbelle, Dirk Hovy, Manuela Hürlimann, Takumi Ito, John D. Kelleher, Filip Klubicka, Huiyuan Lai, Chris van der Lee, Emiel van Miltenburg, Yiru Li, Saad Mahamood, Margot Mieskes, Malvina Nissim, Natalie Parde, Ondřej Plátek, Verena Rieser, Pablo Mosteiro Romero, Joel Tetreault, Antonio Toral, Xiaojun Wan, Leo Wanner, Lewis Watson, and Diyi Yang. Missing Information, Unresponsive Authors, Experimental Flaws: The Impossibility of Assessing the Reproducibility of Previous Human Evaluations in NLP. In Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP (Insights), Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 5, 2023.

Mina Valizadeh, Xing Qian, Pardis Ranjbar-Noiey, Cornelia Caragea and Natalie Parde. What Clued the AI Doctor In? On the Influence of Data Source and Quality for Transformer-Based Medical Self-Disclosure Detection. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2-6, 2023.

Ja Eun Yu, Natalie Parde, and Debaleena Chattopadhyay. “Where is history”: Toward Designing a Voice Assistant to Help Older Adults Locate Interface Features Quickly. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023.

Tabalba, Roderick S., Nurit Kirshenbaum, Jason Leigh, Abari Bhattacharya, Veronica Grosso, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew E. Johnson, and Moira Zellner. An Investigation into an Always Listening Interface to Support Data Exploration. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI), pp. 128-141, March 27-31, 2023.

Parian Haghighat, Toan Nguyen, Mina Valizadeh, Mohammad Arvan, Natalie Parde, Myunghee Kim, and Heejin Jeong. Effects of an intelligent virtual assistant on office task performance and workload in a noisy environment. Applied Ergonomics 109, January 24, 2023.

Xiaoxu Ding, Kelli Wuerth, Brodie Sakakibara, Julia Schmidt, Natalie Parde, Liisa Holsti, and Skye Barbic. Understanding Mobile Health and Youth Mental Health: A Scoping Review. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 11, e44951, 2023.

Sean S. Huang, Lelia H. Chaisson, William Galanter, Arash Jalali, Martha Menchaca, Natalie Parde, Jorge M. Rodríguez-Fernández, Andrew Trotter, and Karl M. Kochendorfer. Lessons learned: Development of COVID-19 clinical staging models at a large urban research institution. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 7(1), e113, 2023.

2019

Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian Ziebart, Bing Liu, Ben S. Gerber, and Lisa K. Sharp. Modeling Health Coaching Dialogues for Behavioral Goal Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), San Diego, CA, November 18-21, 2019.

Xiao Dong, David A. Randolph, and Subhash Kolar Rajanna. Enabling Privacy Preserving Record Linkage Systems Using Asymmetric Key Cryptography. In AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, Washington, DC, November 16-20, 2019.

Haleh Vatani, Sabita Acharya, Andrew D. Boyd, Barbara Di Eugenio, Richard Cameron, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Pantea Habibi, Carolyn Dickens, Amer Ardati, and Karen Dunn Lopez. Patients’ Perceptions of Heart Failure Through the Lens of Standardized Nursing Terminologies. AMIA (American Medical Informations Association) Annual Symposium, November 16-20, 2019. (Oral Presentation)

Bahareh Abbasi, Natawut Monaikul, Zhanibek Rysbek, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Miloš Žefran. A Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction Manager for Assistive Robots. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, November 4-8, 2019.

Jillian Aurisano, Abhinav Kumar, Abeer Alsaiari, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Andrew E. Johnson. Evaluation of Scalable Interactions over Multiple Views in Large Display Environments. IEEE VIS, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 20-25, 2019. (Poster)

Sabita Acharya, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew D. Boyd, Richard Cameron, Karen Dunn Lopez, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Pantea Habibi, Carolyn Dickens, Haleh Vatani, and Amer Ardati. A quantitative analysis of patients’ narratives of heart failure. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), pp. 232-236, Stockholm, Sweden, September 11-13, 2019.

Flavio Di Palo and Natalie Parde. Enriching Neural Models with Targeted Features for Dementia Detection.. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Student Research Workshop (ACL SRW), Florence, Italy, July 28-August 2, 2019.

Nick Green, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Davide Fossati. Towards adaptive worked-out examples in an Intelligent Tutoring System. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Chicago, IL, June 26-28, 2019. (Short Paper)

Natalie Parde and Rodney D. Nielsen. AI Meets Austen: Towards Human-Robot Discussions of Literary Metaphor. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Chicago, Illinois, June 25-29, 2019.

Yatri Modi and Natalie Parde. The Steep Road to Happily Ever After: An Analysis of Current Visual Storytelling Models. In Proceedings of the NAACL 2019 Workshop on Shortcomings in Vision and Language (SiVL), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 6, 2019.

Sabita Acharya, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew D. Boyd, Richard Cameron, Karen Dunn Lopez, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Pantea Habibi, Carolyn Dickens, Haleh Vatani, and Amer Ardati. Promoting Patient Engagement Through Personalized Hospital-Stay Summaries. In Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics: Extended Abstracts (BHI), Chicago, IL, May 19-22, 2019.

Shahla Farzana and Natalie Parde. Virtual-Interviewer: A Conversational Agent Designed to Facilitate Cognitive Health Screening in Older Adults. In Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics: Extended Abstracts (BHI), Chicago, Illinois, May 19-22, 2019.

Natalie Parde and Rodney D. Nielsen. User Perceptions of a Conversational Robot Interface. In Proceedings of the CHI 2019 Workshop on Mapping Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives for Understanding Speech Interface Interactions (SpeechCHI), Glasgow, United Kingdom, May 5, 2019.

Karen Dunn Lopez, Andrew Boyd, Sabita Acharya, Camillo Lugaresi, Tamara Maciera, Vanessa Sousa, Abhinaya Balasubramanian, Khawllah Roussi, Gail M. Keenan, Yves Lussier, Jianrong Li, Michel Burton, and Barbara Di Eugenio. Illustration of an Innovative Method to Analyze Electronic Health Record Documentation Data. Midwest Nursing Research Society’s 43rd Annual Research Conference, Kansas City, MO, March 27-30, 2019.

Xiao Dong, Eugene M. Sadhu, Subhash Kolar Rajanna, David A. Randolph, and Edward Barbour. TensorFlow enabled i2b2 emulator. AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Informatics Summit, March 25-28, 2019. (Oral Presentation)

Pantea Habibi, Sabita Acharya, Barbara Di Eugenio, Richard Cameron, Andrew D. Boyd, Karen Dunn Lopez, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Carolyn Dickens, Amer Ardati, and Debaleena Chattopadhyay. Designing Self-Care Technologies for HF Patients: A Conceptual Model. Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH): Extended Abstracts, Glasgow, UK, 2019.

Sabita Acharya, Andrew D. Boyd, Richard Cameron, Karen Dunn Lopez, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Carolyn Dickens, Amer Ardati, and Barbara Di Eugenio. Incorporating Personalization Features in a Hospital-Stay Summary Generation System. In Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI, Jan 8-11, 2019.

2018

Natalie Parde and Rodney D. Nielsen. Automatically Generating Questions about Novel Metaphors in Literature. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG), Tilburg, Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018.

Sabita Acharya, Andrew D. Boyd, Richard Cameron, Karen Dunn Lopez, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Carolyn Dickens, Amer Ardati, Jose D. Flores, Matt Baumann, Betty Welland, and Barbara Di Eugenio. What Happened to Me while I Was in the Hospital? Challenges and Opportunities for Generating Patient-Friendly Hospitalization Summaries. Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, 2018.

Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian Ziebart, Bing Liu, Ben Gerber, Lisa Sharp, Rafe Davis, and Aiswarya Baiju. Towards a Virtual Assistant Health Coach: Corpus Collection and Annotations. Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), Houston, TX, September 26-28, 2018. (Poster)

David A. Randolph, Justin Badgerow, Christopher Raphael, and Barbara Di Eugenio. Pydactyl: A Python framework for piano fingering. In Extended Abstracts for the Late-Breaking Demo Session of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Paris, France, September 23-27, 2018. (Poster)

Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian Ziebart, Bing Liu, Ben Gerber, Lisa Sharp, Rafe Davis, and Aiswarya Baiju. Towards a Virtual Assistant Health Coach: Corpus Collection and Annotations. ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference and ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), Orlando, FL, September 19-22, 2018.

Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian Ziebart, Bing Liu, Ben Gerber, Lisa Sharp, Rafe Davis, and Aiswarya Baiju. Towards Building a Virtual Assistant Health Coach. In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), pp. 419-421, New York City, NY, USA, June 4-7, 2018.

Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian Ziebart, Bing Liu, Ben Gerber, Lisa Sharp, Rafe Davis, and Aiswarya Baiju. Creating and Annotating a Corpus of Health Coaching Dialogue. The Second Widening Natural Language Processing (WiNLP) Workshop, New Orleans, LA, USA, June 1, 2018.

Sabita Acharya, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew D. Boyd, Richard Cameron, Karen Dunn Lopez, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Carolyn Dickens, and Amer Ardati. Towards generating personalized hospitalization summaries. In Proceedings of the NAACL Student Research Workshop, 2018.

Andrew D. Boyd, Karen Dunn Lopez, Camillo Lugaresi, Tamara Macieira, Vanessa Soussa, Sabita Acharya, Abhinaya Balasubramanian, Khawllah Roussi, Gail M. Keenan, Yves A. Lussier, Jianrong Li, Michel Burton, and Barbara Di Eugenio. Physician nurse care: A new use of UMLS to measure professional contribution. International Journal of Medical Informatics 113, pp. 63-71, May 2018.

Sabita Acharya, Andrew D. Boyd, Karen Dunn Lopez, Richard Cameron, and Barbara Di Eugenio. Determining Medical Term Complexity: Features Identification and Comparison of Classification Techniques. AMIA 2018 Clinical Informatics Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, May 8-10, 2018. (Poster)

2015

Khawllah Roussi, Vanessa Soussa, Karen D. Lopez, Abhinaya Balasubramanian, Gail M. Keenan, Mike Burton, Neil Bahroos, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Andrew D. Boyd. “Are we talking about the same patient?”. MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 216, pp. 1059, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 2015. (Poster)

Jillian Aurisano, Abhinav Kumar, Alberto Gonzales, Khairi Reda, Jason Leigh, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Andrew Johnson. “Show Me Data”. Observational Study of a Conversational Interface in Visual Data Exploration. IEEE Visualization Conference 2015, Chicago, IL, October 2015.

Joel Booth, Barbara Di Eugenio, Isabel F. Cruz, and Ouri Wolfson. Robust Natural Language Processing for Urban Trip Planning. Applied Artificial Intelligence 29 (9), pp.859-903, 2015.

Cynthia Howard, Pamela Jordan, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Sandra Katz. Shifting the Load: a Peer Dialogue Agent that Encourages its Human Collaborator to Contribute More to Problem Solving. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Published online: 27 October 2015.

Nick Green, Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio, Rachel Harsley, Omar AlZoubi, and Mehrdad Alizadeh. Student Behavior with Worked-out Examples in a Computer Science Intelligent Tutoring System. 3rd International Conference on Educational Technologies, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2015.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Nick Green, Omar AlZoubi, Mehrdad Alizadeh, Rachel Harsley, and Davide Fossati. Worked-out Examples in a Computer Science Intelligent Tutoring System. The 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education, Chicago, IL, 2015.

Omar AlZoubi, Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio, Nick Green, Mehrdad Alizadeh, and Rachel Harsley. A Hybrid Model for Teaching Recursion. The 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education, Chicago, IL, 2015.

Rachel Harsley. Learning Together: Expanding the One-To-One ITS Model for Computer Science Education. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computing Education Research, Omaha, NE, 2015.

Rachel Harsley, Nick Green, Mehrdad Alizadeh, Aashish Tandon, and Anushri Prabhu. Sick Kitty – Toward Promoting Deductive Reasoning through an Embodied Medical Diagnosis Game. In Proceedings of the Games Learning Society (GLS) Conference, Madison, WA: ETC Press, 2015.

Lin Chen, Maria Javaid, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Miloš Žefran. The Roles and Recognition of Haptic-Ostensive Actions in Collaborative Multimodal Human–Human Dialogues. Computer Speech & Language, Vol 32(1), pp. 201-231, November 2015.

Nick Green, Omar AlZoubi, Mehrdad Alizadeh, Barbara Di Eugenio, Davide Fossati, and Rachel Harsley. A Scalable Intelligent Tutoring System Framework for Computer Science Education. 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU’15), May 2015.

Mehrdad Alizadeh, Barbara Di Eugenio, Rachel Harsley, Nick Green, Davide Fossati, and Omar AlZoubi. A Study of Analogy in Computer Science Tutorial Dialogues. 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU’15), May 2015.

Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio, Stellan Ohlsson, Christopher Brown, and Lin Chen. Data Driven Automatic Feedback Generation in the iList Intelligent Tutoring System. Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, Vol 10(1), pp.5-26, 2015.

2013

Omar Alzoubi, Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio, Nick Green and Lin Chen. Predicting Students’ Performance and Problem Solving Behavior from iList Log Data. ICCE 2013, The 21st International Conference on Computers in Education, pp. 127-132, Nov 18-22, 2013, Bali, Indonesia.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Camillo Lugaresi, Gail M Keenan, Yves A. Lussier, Jianrong Li, Mike Burton, Carol Friedman, Andrew D. Boyd. HospSum: Integrating physician discharge notes with coded nursing care data to generate patient-centric summaries, American Medical Informatics Association AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium, Washington DC, November 16-20th, 2013 (Abstract).

Barbara Di Eugenio, Nick Green, Rajen Subba. Detecting Life Events in Feeds from Twitter. ICSC 2013, Seventh IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Irvine CA, September 16-18, 2013.

Lin Chen and Barbara Di Eugenio. Multimodality and Dialogue Act Classification in the RoboHelper Project. SigDial 2013, the 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Metz, France, 22-24 August 2013, pp. 183–192.

Camillo Lugaresi and Barbara Di Eugenio. Translating Italian connectives into Italian Sign Language. ACL 2013,The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-9, 2013, pp. 270–280. Judged as one of the “10 best papers of ACL 2013″.

Yiwen Sun, Jason Leigh, Andrew Johnson and Barbara Di Eugenio. Articulate: Creating Meaningful Visualizations from Natural Language, In “Innovative Approaches of Data Visualization and Visual Analytics, Huang, M., Huang, W., editors. IGI Global

Barbara Di Eugenio, Lin Chen, Nick Green, Davide Fossati and Omar Alzoubi. Worked Out Examples in Computer Science Tutoring. AIED 2013, the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Memphis TN, July 2013 (Short paper).

Nick Green, Redge Bartholomew, Ugo Buy. Assessing Performance of Software Defined Radios on Multicore Hardware. SDR-WInnComm-Europe 2013, Munich Germany, June 2013.

2009

Joel Booth, Barbara Di Eugenio, Isabel Cruz, Ouri Wolfson. Query Sentences as Semantic (Sub) Networks. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC). Berkeley, CA, USA. September, 2009.

Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio, Stellan Ohlsson, Christopher Brown, Lin Chen, and David Cosejo. I learn from you, you learn from me: How to make iList learn from students . AIED 2009, The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Brighton, UK. July 2009.

Cynthia Kersey, Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela Jordan, and Sandra Katz. Knowledge Co-construction and Initiative in Peer Learning Interactions . AIED 2009, The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Brighton, UK. July 2009.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Davide Fossati, Stellan Ohlsson, and David Cosejo. Towards explaining effective tutorial dialogues . CogSci 2009, The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. July 2009.

Rajen Subba and Barbara Di Eugenio. An effective Discourse Parser that uses Rich Linguistic Information. NAACL-HLT 2009. The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Boulder, Co. June 2009.

Cynthia Kersey, Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela Jordan, and Sandra Katz. KSC-PaL: A Peer Learning Agent that Encourages Students to take the Initiative . NAACL-HLT 2009 Workshops, The 4th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. Boulder, Co. June 2009.

Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio, Christopher Brown, Stellan Ohlsson, David Cosejo, and Lin Chen. Supporting Computer Science curriculum: Exploring and learning linked lists with iList . IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, Special Issue on Real-World Applications of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, vol. 2 no. 2, pp. 107-120. April-June 2009.

Joel Booth, Prasad Sistla, Ouri Wolfson, Isabel F. Cruz. A Data Model for Trip Planning in Multimodal Transportation Systems. The 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT). Saint Petersburg, Russia. March, 2009.

2008

Barbara Di Eugenio, Davide Fossati, Susan Haller, Dan Yu, and Michael Glass. Be brief, and they shall learn: Generating Concise Language Feedback for a Computer Tutor. International Journal of AI in Education, 18(4). 2008.

Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio, Christopher Brown, and Stellan Ohlsson. Learning Linked Lists: Experiments with the iList System . ITS 2008, The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. LNCS 5091, pp. 80-89. Montreal, Canada. 2008. Nominated for best paper award.

Cynthia Kersey, Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela Jordan, and Sandra Katz. Modeling Knowledge Co-Construction for Peer Learning Interactions. ITS 2008, The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Student Research Workshop. Montreal, Canada. 2008.

Joel Booth, Barbara Di Eugenio, Isabel Cruz, Ouri Wolfson. Understanding Ambiguous Language in Context-Aware Mobile Querying. The Mobile Language Processing Workshop at The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT). Columbus, OH. 2008.

Davide Fossati. The role of positive feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems . ACL 2008, The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Student Research Workshop. Columbus, OH. 2008.

Cynthia Kersey. Impact of Initiative on Collaborative Problem Solving. ACL 2008, The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Student Research Workshop. Columbus, OH. 2008.

Xin Lu, Barbara Di Eugenio, Stellan Ohlsson, and Davide Fossati. Simple but effective feedback generation to tutor abstract problem solving . INLG 2008, 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference. Salt Fork, Ohio. 2008.

Davide Fossati and Barbara Di Eugenio. I saw TREE trees in the park: How to correct real-word spelling mistakes . LREC 2008, The sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marrakech, Morocco. May 2008.

Zhuli Xie, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Peter C. Nelson. From Extracting to Abstracting: Generating Quasi-abstractive Summaries . LREC 2008, The sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marrakech, Morocco. May 2008.

2006

Massimo Poesio, Amrita Patel and Barbara Di Eugenio. Discourse Structure and Anaphora in Tutorial Discourse: an Empirical Analysis of two Theories of the Global Focus. Research in Language and Computation, Vol 4(2-3): 229-257, 2006

Xin Lu. Expert Tutoring and Natural Language Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems . Doctoral Student Consortium at the 14th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2006), 2006, Beijing, China

Xin Lu, Barbara Di Eugenio, Trina Kershaw, Andrew Corrigan-Halpern and Stellan Ohlsson. Tutorial Dialogues: Expert vs. Non-Expert Tutors . The 3rd Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium, 2006, Urbana, Illinois

Barbara Di Eugenio, Trina Kershaw, Xin Lu, Andrew Corrigan-Halpern and Stellan Ohlsson. Toward a Computational Model of Expert Tutoring: A First Report .The 19th International FLAIRS Conference, 2006, Melbourne Beach, Florida

Rajen Subba, Barbara Di Eugenio, Elena Terenzi. Building Lexical Resources for PrincPar, a large coverage parser that generates principled semantic representations. LREC 2006, The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Genoa, Italy. May 2006.

Rajen Subba, Barbara Di Eugenio, Su Nam Kim. Learning FOL Rules based on Rich Verb Semantic Representations to automatically label Rhetorical Relations . EACL 2006, Workshop on Learning Structured Information in Natural Language Applications, The 11th conference of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy. April 2006.

Davide Fossati, Gabriele Ghidoni, Barbara Di Eugenio, Isabel Cruz, Huiyong Xiao, and Rajen Subba. The problem of ontology alignment on the web: a first report. EACL 2006, Workshop on Web As Corpus, The 11th conference of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy. April 2006. Here is the dataset used for the experiments reported in this paper.

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