Barbara Di Eugenio's publications

The list below lists all publications between 2000 and 2005, and some older ones. For publications from 2006 on, please see the NLP lab publication list .

2005

B. Di Eugenio, D. Fossati, D. Yu, S. Haller, M. Glass. Natural Language Generation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: a case study. AIED 2005, the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July (Named for Best Paper Award) [.pdf]

B. Di Eugenio, X. Lu, T. C. Kershaw, A. Corrigan-Halpern, S. Ohlsson. Positive and negative verbal feedback for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. AIED 2005, the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July (poster) [.pdf]

B. Di Eugenio, D. Fossati, D. Yu, S. Haller, M. Glass. Aggregation improves learning: experiments in Natural Language Generation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ACL05, 43rd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, June [.pdf]

B. Di Eugenio, M. J. Trolio. Generating driving directions for intelligent vehicles interfaces. ECBS05, the 12th IEEE International Conference on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, Greenbelt, MD, USA, April [.pdf]

2004

Massimo Poesio, Rosemarie Stevenson, Barbara Di Eugenio and Janet Hitzeman. Centering: a parametric theory and its instantiations. Computational Linguistics 30(3), pp. 309-363.[.pdf]

Z. Xie, X. Li, B. Di Eugenio, P. C. Nelson, W. Xiao, T. M. Tirpak. Using Gene Expression Programming to Construct Sentence Ranking Functions for Text Summarization. COLING04, The 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Geneva, Switzerland, August (project note). [.ps.gz]

Riccardo Serafin and Barbara Di Eugenio. FLSA: Extending Latent Semantic Analysis with features for dialogue act classification. ACL04, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, July. [.pdf]

Barbara Di Eugenio and Michael Glass. The Kappa statistic: a second look. Computational Linguistics 30(1) (squib). [.ps.gz]

2003

Riccardo Serafin, Barbara Di Eugenio and Michael Glass. Latent Semantic Analysis for dialogue act classification. HLT-NAACL03, 2003 Human Language Technology Conference, Edmonton, Canada, May (Short Paper) [.pdf] (Superseded by the ACL04 paper)

Elena Terenzi and Barbara Di Eugenio. Building lexical semantic representations for Natural Language instructions. HLT-NAACL03, 2003 Human Language Technology Conference}, Edmonton, Canada, May (Short Paper) [.pdf]

Susan Haller, Barbara Di Eugenio. Minimal Text Structuring to Improve the Generation of Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. FLAIRS 2003, the 16th International Florida AI Research Symposium, May [.ps.gz]

Barbara Di Eugenio, Susan Haller, Michael Glass. Development and evaluation in a small shop. AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue, Stanford, March 03. [.pdf]

Barbara Di Eugenio. Discourse Processing. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, L. Nadel editor, London: Nature Publishing Group, Vol. 1, 976--983.[.pdf]

2002

Barbara Di Eugenio, Michael Glass, Michael J. Trolio. The DIAG experiments: Natural Language Generation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. The Second International Natural Language Generation Conference, Harriman, NY, July. [.pdf]

Barbara Di Eugenio, Michael Glass, Michael J. Scott.The binomial cumulative distribution, or, is my system better than yours? LREC2002, the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Las Palmas, Spain, June. [.pdf]

Susan Haller, Barbara Di Eugenio and Michael J. Trolio. Generating Natural Language Aggregations Using a Propositional Representation of Sets. FLAIRS 2002, the 15th International Florida AI Research Symposium, Pensacola Beach, FL, May. [.pdf]

Michael Glass, Barbara Di Eugenio. MUP - The UIC Standoff Markup Tool. The Third SigDIAL Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Philadelphia, PA, July. [.pdf]

2001

Barbara Di Eugenio. Natural Language Processing for Computer-supported Instruction. ACM Intelligence, 12(4):22-32, Winter. [.pdf]

Massimo Poesio, Barbara Di Eugenio. Discourse Structure and Anaphoric Accessibility. ESSLLI2001 Workshop on Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics. Helsinki, Finland [.ps.gz]

Barbara Di Eugenio, Michael Glass, Michael J. Trolio and Susan Haller. Simple Natural Language Generation and Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Workshop on Tutorial Dialogue Systems, 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education, San Antonio, TX, May. [.pdf]

2000

Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela W. Jordan, Richmond H. Thomason, Johanna D. Moore, The agreement process: an empirical investigation of human-human computer-mediated collaborative dialogues. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 2000. [.ps.gz]

Barbara Di Eugenio, Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation in Multilingual Text Generation (by Manfred Stede), Computational Linguistics, Vol. 26(2), pp. 270-273, 2000.

Barbara Di Eugenio, On the usage of Kappa to evaluate agreement on coding tasks, LREC2000, the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Athens, Greece, 2000. [.pdf]

Barbara Di Eugenio, Michael J. Trolio, Can simple Natural Language Generation improve Intelligent Tutoring Systems, AAAI 2000 Fall Symposium on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications, North Falmouth, MA, 2000. [.pdf]

1999 and earlier

Carolyn Penstein Rose', Barbara Di Eugenio, Johanna D. Moore, A Dialogue Based Tutoring System for Basic Electricity and Electronics, Proceedings 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI-ED 99, Le Mans, France, 1999. [.ps.gz]

Robert Dale, Barbara Di Eugenio, Donia Scott, Introduction to the Special Issue on Natural Language Generation, Computational Linguistics, Vol. 24(3), pp. 345-353, 1998.

Barbara Di Eugenio, An Action Representation Formalism to interpret Natural Language Instructions. Computational Intelligence. Vol. 14(1), pp. 89-133, 1998. [.ps.gz]

Barbara Di Eugenio, Centering in Italian, Centering in Discourse, Ellen Prince, Aravind Joshi, Lyn Walker editors, Oxford University Press, 1998. [.ps.gz]

Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela W. Jordan, Johanna D. Moore, Richmond H. Thomason, An empirical investigation of proposals in collaborative dialogues, Proceedings 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL/COLING 98 (joint with the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics), Montreal, Canada, 1998.

Yan Qu, Barbara Di Eugenio, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Carolyn Penstein Rose', Minimizing Cumulative Error in Discourse Context, Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, E. Maier, M. Mast, S. LuperFoy editors, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 1997.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Johanna D. Moore, Massimo Paolucci, Learning Features that Predict Cue Usage, Proceedings 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL97, Madrid, Spain, 1997. [.ps.gz]

Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela W. Jordan, Richmond H. Thomason, Johanna D. Moore, Reconstructed Intentions in Collaborative Problem Solving Dialogues, AAAI 1997 Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, Cambridge, MA, 1997.

Pamela W. Jordan, Barbara Di Eugenio, Control and Initiative in Collaborative Problem Solving Dialogues, AAAI 1997 Spring Symposium on Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction,s Stanford, CA., 1997.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Bonnie L. Webber, Pragmatic Overloading in Natural Language Instructions, International Journal of Expert Systems, Special Issue on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Natural Language Processing. Vol. 9(1), pp. 53-84, 1996. [.ps.gz]

Barbara Di Eugenio, The discourse functions of Italian subjects: a centering approach, Proceedings 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING96, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996.

Yan Qu, Carolyn Penstein Rose', Barbara Di Eugenio, Using discourse predictions for ambiguity resolution, Proceedings 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING96, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996.

Keith Vander Linden, Barbara Di Eugenio, A corpus study of negative imperatives in Natural Language instructions, Proceedings 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING96, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996. [from cmp-lg]

Keith Vander Linden, Barbara Di Eugenio, Learning Micro-Planning Rules for Preventative Expressions, INLG96, 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Sussex, UK, 1996.[from cmp-lg]

Bonnie L. Webber, Norman Badler, Barbara Di Eugenio, Christopher Geib, Libby Levison, Michael Moore, Instructions, Intentions and Expectations, Artificial Intelligence Journal, Special Issue on Computational Theories of Interaction and Agency, Vol. 73, pp. 253-269, 1995.

Carolyn Penstein Rose', Barbara Di Eugenio, Lori Levin, Carol Van Ess-Dykema, Discourse Processing of Dialogues with Multiple Threads, Proceedings 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL95, Boston, MA., 31-38, 1995. [from cmp-lg]

Barbara Di Eugenio, Action Representation for interpreting Purpose Clauses in Natural Language Instructions, Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference, KR94, Bonn, Germany, 158-169, 1994.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Understanding Natural Language Instructions: the Case of Purpose Clauses, Proceedings 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL92, Newark, Delaware, 120-127, 1992.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Michael White, On the Interpretation of Natural Language Instructions, Proceedings 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING92, Nantes, France, 1147-1151, 1992.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Bonnie L. Webber, Plan Recognition in Understanding Instructions. Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems. Proceedings of the First International Conference, James Hendler ed., College Park, MD., 52-61, 1992.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Action Representation for Natural Language Instructions, Proceedings 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL91, Student Session, Berkeley, CA., 333-334, 1991.

Bonnie L. Webber, Barbara Di Eugenio, Free Adjuncts in Natural Language Instructions, In Proceedings 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING90, Helsinki, Finland, 395-400, 1990.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Centering Theory and the Italian Pronominal System. In Proceedings 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING90, Helsinki, Finland, 270-275, 1990.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Leonardo Lesmo, Representation and Interpretation of Determiners in Natural Language, Proceedings 10th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI87, Milano, Italy, 648-654, 1987.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Cooperative Behaviour in the FIDO System, Information Systems, Vol. 12(3), pp. 295-316, 1987.