Kathleen F. McCoy

Also published as: Kathleen E. McCoy, Kathleen McCoy


2022

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Towards Development of an Automated Health Coach
Leighanne Hsu | Rommy Marquez Hernandez | Kathleen McCoy | Keith Decker | Ajith Vemuri | Greg Dominick | Megan Heintzelman
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Generation in Healthcare

Human health coaching has been established as an effective intervention for improving clients’ health, but it is restricted in scale due to the availability of coaches and finances of the clients. We aim to build a scalable, automated system for physical activity coaching that is similarly grounded in behavior change theories. In this paper, we present our initial steps toward building a flexible system that is capable of carrying out a natural dialogue for goal setting as a health coach would while also offering additional support through just-in-time adaptive interventions. We outline our modular system design and approach to gathering and analyzing data to incrementally implement such a system.

2017

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Topic Model Stability for Hierarchical Summarization
John Miller | Kathleen McCoy
Proceedings of the Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization

We envisioned responsive generic hierarchical text summarization with summaries organized by section and paragraph based on hierarchical structure topic models. But we had to be sure that topic models were stable for the sampled corpora. To that end we developed a methodology for aligning multiple hierarchical structure topic models run over the same corpus under similar conditions, calculating a representative centroid model, and reporting stability of the centroid model. We ran stability experiments for standard corpora and a development corpus of Global Warming articles. We found flat and hierarchical structures of two levels plus the root offer stable centroid models, but hierarchical structures of three levels plus the root didn’t seem stable enough for use in hierarchical summarization.

2016

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Enabling text readability awareness during the micro planning phase of NLG applications
Priscilla Moraes | Kathleen McCoy | Sandra Carberry
Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference

2014

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Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG)
Margaret Mitchell | Kathleen McCoy | David McDonald | Aoife Cahill
Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG)

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Adapting Graph Summaries to the Users’ Reading Levels
Priscilla Moraes | Kathleen McCoy | Sandra Carberry
Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG)

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Experimental Design to Improve Topic Analysis Based Summarization
John Miller | Kathleen McCoy
Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG)

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Generating Summaries of Line Graphs
Priscilla Moraes | Gabriel Sina | Kathleen McCoy | Sandra Carberry
Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG)

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Proceedings of the INLG and SIGDIAL 2014 Joint Session
Margaret Mitchell | Kathleen McCoy | David McDonald | Aoife Cahill
Proceedings of the INLG and SIGDIAL 2014 Joint Session

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Identifying Important Features for Graph Retrieval
Zhuo Li | Sandra Carberry | Hui Fang | Kathleen McCoy
Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers

2013

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Team UDEL KBGen 2013 Challenge
Keith Butler | Priscilla Moraes | Ian Tabolt | Kathleen F. McCoy
Proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Jan Alexandersson | Peter Ljunglöf | Kathleen F. McCoy | François Portet | Brian Roark | Frank Rudzicz | Michel Vacher
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

2012

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Summarizing Information Graphics Textually
Seniz Demir | Sandra Carberry | Kathleen F. McCoy
Computational Linguistics, Volume 38, Issue 3 - September 2012

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Natural Language Generation and Assistive Technologies
Kathleen McCoy
INLG 2012 Proceedings of the Seventh International Natural Language Generation Conference

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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Jan Alexandersson | Peter Ljunglöf | Kathleen F. McCoy | Brian Roark | Annalu Waller
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

2011

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Abstractive Summarization of Line Graphs from Popular Media
Charles Greenbacker | Peng Wu | Sandra Carberry | Kathleen McCoy | Stephanie Elzer
Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages

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Improving the Accessibility of Line Graphs in Multimodal Documents
Charles F. Greenbacker | Peng Wu | Sandra Carberry | Kathleen F. McCoy | Stephanie Elzer | David D. McDonald | Daniel Chester | Seniz Demir
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

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A Corpus of Human-written Summaries of Line Graphs
Charles Greenbacker | Sandra Carberry | Kathleen McCoy
Proceedings of the UCNLG+Eval: Language Generation and Evaluation Workshop

2010

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Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Melanie Fried-Oken | Kathleen F. McCoy | Brian Roark
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

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Implications of Pragmatic and Cognitive Theories on the Design of Utterance-Based AAC Systems
Kathleen F. McCoy | Jan Bedrosian | Linda Hoag
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

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Automated Skimming System in Response to Questions for NonVisual Readers
Debra Yarrington | Kathleen F. McCoy
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

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A Discourse-Aware Graph-Based Content-Selection Framework
Seniz Demir | Sandra Carberry | Kathleen F. McCoy
Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference

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UDel: Refining a Method of Named Entity Generation
Charles Greenbacker | Nicole Sparks | Kathleen McCoy | Che-Yu Kuo
Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference

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UDel: Named Entity Recognition and Reference Regeneration from Surface Text
Nicole Sparks | Charles Greenbacker | Kathleen McCoy | Che-Yu Kuo
Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference

2009

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UDel: Generating Referring Expressions Guided by Psycholinguistc Findings
Charles Greenbacker | Kathleen McCoy
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation (UCNLG+Sum 2009)

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UDel: Extending Reference Generation to Multiple Entities
Charles Greenbacker | Kathleen McCoy
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation (UCNLG+Sum 2009)

2008

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Evaluating Word Prediction: Framing Keystroke Savings
Keith Trnka | Kathleen McCoy
Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers

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Generating Textual Summaries of Bar Charts
Seniz Demir | Sandra Carberry | Kathleen McCoy
Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference

2007

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The Effects of Word Prediction on Communication Rate for AAC
Keith Trnka | Debra Yarrington | John McCaw | Kathleen F. McCoy | Christopher Pennington
Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers

2004

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Extending Document Summarization to Information Graphics
Sandra Carberry | Stephanie Elzer | Nancy Green | Kathleen McCoy | Daniel Chester
Text Summarization Branches Out

2003

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Generation of Single-sentence Paraphrases from Predicate/Argument Structure using Lexico-grammatical Resources
Raymond Kozlowski | Kathleen F. McCoy | K. Vijay-Shanker
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing

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Understanding Information Graphics: A Discourse-Level Problem
Sandra Carberry | Stephanie Elzer | Nancy Green | Kathleen McCoy | Daniel Chester
Proceedings of the Fourth SIGdial Workshop of Discourse and Dialogue

2002

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Efficiently Computed Lexical Chains as an Intermediate Representation for Automatic Text Summarization
H. Gregory Silber | Kathleen F. McCoy
Computational Linguistics, Volume 28, Number 4, December 2002

2001

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Error Profiling: Toward a Model of English Acquisition for Deaf Learners
Lisa N. Michaud | Kathleen F. McCoy
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2000

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An Efficient Text Summarizer using Lexical Chains
H. Gregory Silber | Kathleen F. McCoy
INLG’2000 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation

1999

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Building a Tool for Annotating Reference in Discourse
Jonathan DeCristofaro | Michael Strube | Kathleen E. McCoy
The Relation of Discourse/Dialogue Structure and Reference

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Generating Anaphoric Expressions: Pronoun or Definite Description?
Kathleen E. McCoy | Michael Strube
The Relation of Discourse/Dialogue Structure and Reference

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Modeling User Language Proficiency in a Writing Tutor for Deaf Learners of English
Lisa N. Michaud | Kathleen F. McCoy
Computer Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing

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A Methodology for Extending Focusing Frameworks
Linda Z. Suri | Kathleen F. McCoy | Jonathan D. DeCristofaro
Computational Linguistics, Volume 25, Number 2, June 1999

1998

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Recognizing Syntactic Errors in the Writing of Second Language Learners
David Schneider | Kathleen F. McCoy
36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 2

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Recognizing Syntactic Errors in the Writing of Second Language Learners
David Schneider | Kathleen F. McCoy
COLING 1998 Volume 2: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1997

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Simple NLP Techniques for Expanding Telegraphic Sentences
Kathleen F. McCoy
Natural Language Processing for Communication Aids

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A Tutor for Teaching English as a Second Language for Deaf Users of American Sign Language
Kathleen F. McCoy | Lisa N. Masterman
Natural Language Processing for Communication Aids

1996

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Considering the Effects of Second Language Learning on Generation
Kathleen F. McCoy | Christopher A. Pennington | Linda Z. Suri
Eighth International Natural Language Generation Workshop

1994

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RAFT/RAPR and Centering: a comparison and discussion of problems related to processing complex sentences
Linda Z. Suri | Kathleen McCoy
Computational Linguistics, Volume 20, Number 2, June 1994

1993

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Observations and Directions in Text Structure
John Hughes | Kathleen McCoy
Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations

1992

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A Functional Approach to Generation with TAG
Kathleen F. McCoy | K. Vijay-Shanker | Gijoo Yang
30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1990

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Using Tree Adjoining Grammars Systemic Framework in the
Kathleen F. McCoy | K. Vijay-Shanker | Gijoo Yang
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation

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The Basic Block Model of Extended Explanations
David J. Mooney | Sandra Carberry | Kathleen F. McCoy
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation

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The Generation of High-Level Structure for Extended Explanations
David J. Mooney | Sandra Carberry | Kathleen F. McCoy
COLING 1990 Volume 2: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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Applying Natural Language Processing Techniques to Augmentative Communication Systems
Kathleen McCoy | Patrick Demasco | Mark Jones | Christopher Pennington | Charles Rowe
COLING 1990 Volume 3: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1988

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Reasoning on a Highlighted User Model to Respond to Misconceptions
Kathleen F. McCoy
Computational Linguistics, Volume 14, Number 3, September 1988

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Book Reviews: The Linguistic Basis of Text Generation
Kathleen McCoy
Computational Linguistics, Volume 14, Number 3, September 1988

1986

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The ROMPER System: Responding to Object-Related Misconceptions using Perspective
Kathleen F. McCoy
24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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The Role of Perspective in Responding to Property Misconceptions
Kathleen F. McCoy
Strategic Computing - Natural Language Workshop: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Marina del Rey, California, May 1-2, 1986

1984

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Correcting Object-Related Misconceptions: How Should The System Respond?
Kathleen F. McCoy
10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1982

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Augmenting a Database Knowledge Representation for Natural Language Generation
Kathleen F. McCoy
20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics