Here is a list of our recent publications. If you are interested in getting a copy of our other papers, please email us directly.

Journal Publications

• Diane J. Litman and Shimei Pan. Designing and Evaluating an Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System. International Journal of User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction, (12): 111-137, 2002.
• Michelle X. Zhou, Sheng Ma and Ying Feng. Applying Machine Learning to Automated Information Graphics Generation. IBM System Journal, 41(3): 504-523, 2002.

Book Chapters

• Joyce Chai, Shimei Pan and Michelle X. Zhou. MIND: A Context-based Multimodal Interpretation Framework in Conversation Systems. Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in Multimodal Dialogue Systems, J. Kuppervelt, L. Dybkjaer and N. Bernsen (eds). Kluwer. 2005. To appear.
• Michelle X. Zhou and Steve K. Feiner. IMPROVISE: Automated Generation of Animated Graphics for Coordinated Multimedia Presentations. Cooperative Multimodal Communication, Bunt, H. and Beun, R. (eds.), pages 43-63, Springer, 2001.

Conference Publications

2006

• Michelle X Zhou, Keith Houck, Shimei Pan, James Shaw, Vikram Aggarwal, and Zhen Wen. Enabling Context-Sensitive Information Seeking. Proceedings of Intelligent User Interface (IUI) , 2006, to appear.

2005

• Shimei Pan and James C. Shaw. Instance-based Sentence Boundary Determination by Optimization. Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2005.
• Shimei Pan, Siwei Shen, Michelle X. Zhou and Keith Houck. Two-Way Adaptation for Robust Input Interpretation for Practical Multimodal Interaction. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pages 25-32, 2005.
• Zhen Wen, Michelle X. Zhou and Vikram Aggarwal. An Optimization-based Approach to Dynamic Visual Context Management. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), 2005.
• Michelle X. Zhou, Zhen Wen and Vikram Aggarwal. A Graph-Matching Approach to Dynamic Media Allocation in Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pages 114-121, 2005. Best paper award.

2004

• Joyce Chai, Pengyu Hong and Michelle X. Zhou. A Probabilistic Approach to Reference Resolution in Multimodal Interfaces. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pages 70-77, 2004.
• Joyce Chai, Pengyu Hong, Michelle X. Zhou and Zahar Prasov. Optimization in Multimodal Interpretation. Proceedings of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 1-8, 2004.
• Keith Houck. Contextual Revision in Information Seeking Conversation Systems. Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), 2004.
• Shimei Pan. A Multi-Layer Conversation Management Approach for Information Seeking Applications. Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), 2004.
• Shimei Pan and James C. Shaw. SEGUE: A Hybrid Case-Based Surface Natural Language Generator. Proceedings of International Conference of Natural Language Generation (INLG), pages 130-140, 2004.
• Michelle X. Zhou and Vikram Aggarwal. An Optimization-based Approach to Dynamic Data Content Selection in Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), pages 227-236, 2004.

2003

• Michelle X. Zhou and Min Chen. Automated Generation of Graphical Sketches by Example. Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 65-74, 2003.

2002

• Joyce Chai. Semantics-based Representation for Multimodal Interpretation in Conversational Systems. Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2002.
• Joyce Chai. Operations for Context-based Multimodal Interpretation. Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), 2002.
• Joyce Chai, Shimei Pan and Michelle X. Zhou. MIND: A Semantics-based Multimodal Interpretation Framework for Conversation Systems. Proceedings of International CLASS Workshop on Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in Multimodal Dialog Systems , 2002.
• Joyce Chai, Shimei Pan, Michelle X. Zhou and Keith Houck. Context-based Multimodal Input Understanding in Conversational Systems. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), pages 87-92, 2002.
• Michelle X. Zhou, Min Chen and Ying Feng. Building a Visual Database for Example-based Graphics Generation. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), pages 23-30, 2002.
• Shimei Pan and Wubin Weng. Designing a speech corpus for instance-based spoken language generation. Proceedings of the Second International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG), 2002.
• Michelle X. Zhou and Keith Houck. A Semantic Approach to the Dynamic Design of Interaction Controls in Conversational Systems. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pages 167-174, 2002.

2001

• Shimei Pan, Kathleen McKeown and Julia Hirschberg. Semantic Abnormality and its Realization in Spoken Language. Proceedings of Eurospeech, pp. 333-336, 2001.
• Michelle X. Zhou and Sheng Ma. Representing and Retrieving Visual Presentations for Example-based Graphics Generation. Proceedings of Smart Graphics, pp. 87-94, 2001.
• Michelle X. Zhou and Shimei Pan. Automated Authoring of Coherent Multimedia Discourse for Conversation Systems. Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), pages 555-559, 2001.

1999

• Michelle X. Zhou. Visual Planning: A Practical Approach to Automated Visual Presentation. Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 634-641, 1999.