Publications
2019

S. Acharya, A. D. Boyd, R. Cameron, K. Dunn Lopez, P. Martyn-Nemeth, C. Dickens, A. Ardati, B. Di Eugenio. (2019). 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.

 
2018

S. Acharya S, A. D. Boyd, R. Cameron, K. D. Lopez, P. Martyn-Nemeth, C. Dickens, A. Ardati, J. D. Flores, M. Baumann, B. Welland, B. Di Eugenio. (2018). What happened to me while I was in the hospital? Challenges and opportunities for generating patient-friendly hospitalization summaries. Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research.

D. A. Randolph,  J. Badgerow, C. Raphael, B. Di Eugenio. (2018). Pydactyl: A Python framework for piano fingering (poster). In Extended Abstracts for the Late-Breaking Demo Session of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. Paris, France, September 23-27.

I. Gupta, B. Di Eugenio, B. Ziebart, B. Liu, B. Gerber, L. Sharp, R. Davis, A. Baiju. (2018). Towards Building a Virtual Assistant Health Coach. The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), New York City, NY, USA, June 4-7.

I. Gupta, B. Di Eugenio, B. Ziebart, B. Liu, B. Gerber, L. Sharp, R. Davis, A. Baiju. (2018). Creating and Annotating a Corpus of Health Coaching Dialogue. The Second Widening Natural Language Processing (WiNLP) Workshop, New Orleans, LA, USA, June 1.

S. Acharya, B. Di Eugenio, A. D. Boyd, R. Cameron, K. Dunn Lopez, P. Martyn-Nemeth, C. Dickens, A. Ardati. (2018). Towards generating personalized hospitalization summaries. In Proceedings of the NAACL Student Research Workshop.

A. D. Boyd, K. D. Lopez, C. Lugaresi, T. Macieira, V. Soussa, S. Acharya, A. Balasubramanian, K. Roussi, G. M. Keenan, Y. A. Lussier, J. J. Li, M. Burton, B. Di Eugenio. Physician nurse care: A new use of UMLS to measure professional contribution. International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 113, pp 63-71, May 2018.

S. Acharya, A. D. Boyd, K. D. Lopez, R. Cameron, B. Di Eugenio. (2018). Determining Medical Term Complexity: Features Identification and Comparison of Classification Techniques. AMIA 2018 Clinical Informatics Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, May 8-10 (Poster).

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2017

S. Acharya, B. Di Eugenio, A. D. Boyd, R. Cameron, K. Dunn Lopez, P. Martyn-Nemeth, C. Dickens, A. Ardati. (2017). Personalizing hospital-stay summaries for patients. ACM TAPIA Conference, Atlanta, GA, September 20-23 (Poster).

A. Kumar, B. Di Eugenio, J. Aurisano,  A. Johnson, A. Alsaiari, N. Flowers, A. Gonzalez and J. Leigh. Multimodal Coreference Resolution for Exploratory Data Visualization Dialogue: Context-Based Annotation and Gesture Identification. SemDial 2017, The 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, August 15-17,  Saarbrücken, Germany.

C. Howard, B. Di Eugenio,  P. Jordan, S. Katz. Exploring Initiative as a Signal of Knowledge Co-Construction During Collaborative Problem Solving. Cognitive Science, 41(6): 1422-1449, August 2017.

R. Harsley, B. Di Eugenio, N. Green, D. Fossati. Collaborative Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Comparing Learner Outcomes Across Varying Collaboration Feedback Strategies. CSCL 2017, the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. June 2017, Philadelphia, PA.

R. Harsley, B. Di Eugenio, N. Green, D. Fossati. Enhancing an Intelligent Tutoring System to Support Student Collaboration: Effects on Learning and Behavior. AIED 2017, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, June-July 2017, Wuhan, China. 519-522.

R. Harsley, D. Fossati, B. Di Eugenio, N. Green. Interactions of Individual and Pair Programmers with an Intelligent Tutoring System for Computer Science. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science (SigCSE 17), 2017.

C. Howard, P. Jordan, B. Di Eugenio, S. 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 27 (1), 101-129.

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2016

D. A. Randolph, B. Di Eugenio. Dactylize: Automatically collecting piano fingering data from performance (poster). In Extended Abstracts for the Late-Breaking Demo Session of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, New York, USA, August 2016

D. A. Randolph, B. Di Eugenio. (2016). Easy as abcDE: Piano fingering transcription online (poster). In Extended Abstracts for the Late-Breaking Demo Session of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. New York , USA, August 2016

S. Acharya, B. Di Eugenio, A. D. Boyd, K. Dunn Lopez, R. Cameron, G. M Keenan. Generating summaries of hospitalizations: A new metric to assess the complexity of medical terms and their definitions. Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation (INLG 2016), Edinburgh, UK, September 5-8 2016 (Short paper)

S. Acharya, B. Di Eugenio, A. D. Boyd, K. Dunn Lopez. Towards generating comprehensible hospital-stay summaries for patients. 2016 International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) Doctoral Consortium, IEEE, Chicago, IL, October 2016.

A.  Kumar, J. Aurisano, B. Di Eugenio, A. Johnson, A. Gonzalez and J. Leigh. Towards a dialogue system that supports rich visualizations of data. The 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2016). Los Angeles, USA, September 13-15 2016 (Short paper)

J. Aurisano, A.  Kumar, A. Gonzalez, J. Leigh, B. Di Eugenio, and A. Johnson. Articulate2: Toward a Conversational Interface for Visual Data Exploration. VIS 2016. Baltimore, Maryland, October 2016

R. Harsley, B. Gupta, B. Di Eugenio, H. Li. Hit Songs' Sentiments Harness Public Mood and Predict Stock Market. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis. San Diego, CA, June 2016

N. Green, B. Di Eugenio, R. Harsley, D. Fossati, O. Alzoubi. Behavior and Learning of Students using Worked-out Examples in a Tutoring System. 13th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Zagreb, Croatia, June 2016

R. Harsley, B. Di Eugenio, N. Green, D. Fossati, S. Acharya. Integrating Support for Collaboration in a Computer Science Intelligent Tutoring System. 13th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Zagreb, Croatia, June 2016

R. Harsley, N. Green, B. Di Eugenio, S. Acharya, D. Fossati, O. AlZoubi. Collab-ChiQat: A Collaborative Remaking of a Computer Science Intelligent Tutoring System. CSCW '16: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion Proceedings. San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016

R. Harsley, N. Green, M. Alizadeh, S. Acharya, D. Fossati, B. Di Eugenio, O. AlZoubi. Incorporating Analogies and Worked Out Examples as Pedagogical Strategies in a Computer Science Tutoring System. Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). Memphis, TN, USA, 2016

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2015

K. Roussi, V. Soussa, K. Dunn Lopez, A. Balasubramanian, G. M. Keenan, M. Burton, N. Bahroos, B. Di Eugenio, and A. D. Boyd. "Are we talking about the same patient?". MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health 2015. Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 2015. Studies in health technology and informatics 216: 1059 (Poster)

J. Aurisano, A. Kumar, A. Gonzales, K. Reda, J. Leigh, B. Di Eugenio, A. Johnson. "Show Me Data". Observational Study of a Conversational Interface in Visual Data Exploration. IEEE Visualization Conference 2015. Chicago, IL, Oct 2015

J. Booth, B. Di Eugenio, I. F. Cruz, O. Wolfson. Robust Natural Language Processing for Urban Trip Planning. Applied Artificial Intelligence 29 (9), pp.859-903, 2015

C. Howard, P. Jordan, B. Di Eugenio, S. 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.

N. Green, D. Fossati, B. Di Eugenio, R. Harsley, O. AlZoubi, M. 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

B. Di Eugenio, N. Green, O. AlZoubi, M. Alizadeh, R. Harsley, D. Fossati. Worked-out Examples in a Computer Science Intelligent Tutoring System. The 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education. Chicago, IL, 2015

O. AlZoubi, D. Fossati, B. Di Eugenio, N. Green, M. Alizadeh, R. Harsley. A Hybrid Model for Teaching Recursion. The 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education. Chicago, IL, 2015

R. 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

R. Harsley, N. Green, M. Alizadeh, A. Tandon, A. 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

L. Chen, M. Javaid, B. Di Eugenio, M. Žefran. The roles and recognition of Haptic-Ostensive actions in collaborative multimodal human–human dialogues.  Computer Speech & Language. Vol 32(1), pp. 201-231, Nov. 2015

N. Green, O. AlZoubi, M. Alizadeh, B. Di Eugenio, D. Fossati, R. Harsley. A Scalable Intelligent Tutoring System Framework for Computer Science Education. 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU'15). May 2015

M. Alizadeh, B. Di Eugenio, R. Harsley, N. Green, D. Fossati, O. AlZoubi. A Study of Analogy in Computer Science Tutorial Dialogues. 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU'15). May 2015

D. Fossati, B. Di Eugenio, S. Ohlsson, C. Brown, and L. Chen. Data driven automatic feedback generation in the iList intelligent tutoring system. Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning. Vol 10(1), pp.5-26, 2015.

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2014

R. Harsley, Towards a Collaborative Intelligent Tutoring System Classification Scheme, Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age 2014, October 2014

D. Randolph, Didactyl: Toward a Useful Computational Model of Piano Fingering, Presented at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, October 2014

H. Wang, B. Di Eugenio, S. Lin, C. T. Yu, Distinguishing Different Types of Conference Submissions: The ACL Case Study, Presented at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science based on this paper, October 2014

O. Alzoubi, D. Fossati, B. Di Eugenio, and N. Green. ChiQat-Tutor: An Integrated Environment for Learning Recursion. Proc. of the Second Workshop on AI-supported Education for Computer Science (AIEDCS) (at ITS 2014). Honolulu, HI, June 2014.

B. Di Eugenio, A. D. Boyd, C. Lugaresi, A. Balasubramanian, G. M. Keenan, M. Burton, T. G. Rezende Macieira, K. Dunn Lopez, C. Friedman, J. Li, and Y. A. Lussier, PatientNarr: Towards generating patient-centric summaries of hospital stays, Proc. of the Eighth International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG 2014, Philadelphia, PA, June 2014.

M. Žefran, M. Javaid, and B. Di Eugenio, Communication through Physical Interaction: A Study of Human Collaborative Manipulation of a Planar Object, Proc. of the 23rd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2014), Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2014.

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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)

N. Green, R. Bartholomew, U. Buy. Assessing Performance of Software Defined Radios on Multicore Hardware. SDR-WInnComm-Europe 2013, Munich Germany, June 2013

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2012

Swati Tata and Barbara Di Eugenio. SongRecommend: From Summarization to Recommendation. Natural Language Engineering. Available on Cambridge Journals Online, FirstView Article, pp 1-39, Published online: 28 September 2012. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1351324912000253

H.-J. Song, J.-W. Son, T.-G. Noh, S.-B. Park and S.-J. Lee. A Cost Sensitive Part-of-speech Tagging: Differentiating Serious Errors from Minor Errors. In ACL 2012, the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Jeju, South Korea. July 8-14, 2012

Anruo Wang, Barbara Di Eugenio and Lin Chen. Improving Sentence Completion in Dialogues with Multi-Modal Features. In SIGDIAL 2012, the 13th SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Seoul, South Korea. July 5-6, 2012.

Lin Chen and Barbara Di Eugenio. Co-reference via Pointing and Haptics in Multi-Modal Dialogues. In NAACL HLT 2012, the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. June 3-8, 2012.

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2011

Lin Chen, Barbara Di Eugenio, Davide Fossati, Stellan Ohlsson and David Cosejo. Exploring Effective Dialogue Act Sequences in One-on-one Computer Science Tutoring Dialogues. In BEA6, The 6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Portland, Oregon, USA. June 2011 (Poster).

Lin Chen, Anruo Wang and Barbara Di Eugenio. Improving Pronominal and Deictic Co-Reference Resolution with Multi-Modal Features. In SIGDIAL 2011, The 12th SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Portland, Oregon, USA. June 2011 (Poster).

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2010

Barbara Di Eugenio, Milos Zefran, Jezekiel Ben-Arie, Mark Foreman, Lin Chen, Simone Franzini, Shankaranand Jagadeesan, Maria Javaid and Kai Ma. Towards Effective Communication with Robotic Assistants for the Elderly: Integrating Speech, Vision and Haptics. Dialog with Robots, AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium, Arlington, VA, USA. November 2010.

Adam Kurmally, Barbara Di Eugenio, Charles E. Kahn Jr. and Susan McRoy. Building a corpus and developing a question classifier to support messaging-based question answering. ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, IHI 2010, Arlington, VA, USA, November 2010.

Lin Chen and Barbara Di Eugenio. A Maximum Entropy Approach To Disambiguating VerbNet Classes. 2nd Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs, "The Identification and Representation of Verb Features". Pisa, Italy. November 2010.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Zhuli Xie and Riccardo Serafin. "Dialogue Act Classification, Instance-Based Learning, and Higher Order Dialogue Structure". Journal of Discourse and Dialogue Research. Vol. 1(2): 1-24, July 2010.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Nancy Green. Emerging applications of Natural Language Generation in Information Visualization, Education, and Health-Care. The Handbook of Natural Language Processing (Second Edition). Nitin Indurkhya, Frederic Damerau (Eds.), CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. Pp. 557-575. 2010.

Lin Chen and Barbara Di Eugenio. A Lucene and Maximum Entropy Model Based Hedge Detection System. CoNLL 2010 : Shared Task, Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Uppsala, Sweden. July 2010.

Swati Tata and Barbara Di Eugenio. Generating fine-grained reviews of songs from album reviews. ACL 2010, The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Uppsala, Sweden. July 2010.

Cynthia Kersey, Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela Jordan, Sandra Katz. KSC-PaL: A Peer Learning Agent. ITS 2010, The Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. June 2010. Pittsburgh, PA

Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio, Stellan Ohlsson, Christopher Brown and Lin Chen. Generating proactive feedback to help students stay on track. ITS 2010, The Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. June 2010. Pittsburgh, PA (poster)

Alberto Tretti, Barbara Di Eugenio. Analysis and presentation of results for mobile local search. LREC 2010, The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Valletta, Malta. May 2010.

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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.

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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.

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2007

Stellan Ohlsson, Barbara Di Eugenio, Bettina Chow, Davide Fossati, Xin Lu, and Trina C. Kershaw. Beyond the code-and-count analysis of tutoring dialogues . The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Marina Del Rey, CA. 2007.

Xin Lu, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Stellan Ohlsson. Learning Tutorial Rules using Classification Based on Associations . The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Marina Del Rey, CA. 2007 (Poster).

Rajen Subba and Barbara Di Eugenio. Automatic Discourse Segmentation Using Neural Networks . DECALOG - The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Trento, Italy. May- 2007 (Poster).

Cynthia Kersey, Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela Jordan, and Sandra Katz. Collaboration in Peer Learning Dialogues . Decalog: The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Trento, Italy, May 2007 (Poster).

Rajen Subba. Exploiting Event Semantics to Parse the Rhetorical Structure of Natural Language Text . NAACL 2007, Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium, the North American chapter for the Association for Computational Linguistics, Rochester, USA. April 2007.

X. Lu, B. Di Eugenio, T. C. Kershaw, S. Ohlsson, A. Corrigan-Halpern. Expert vs. Non-expert Tutoring: Dialogue Moves, Interaction Patterns and Multi-Utterance Turns . CICLing-2007, The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, February 2007. Best student paper award.

D. Fossati, B. Di Eugenio. A Mixed Trigrams Approach for Context Sensitive Spell Checking . CICLing-2007, The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, February 2007.

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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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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 2005.Nominated for best paper award.

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 2005 (poster)

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 2005

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 2005

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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.

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).

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.

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

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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)

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

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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2001

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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