The ICICLE Project: An Intelligent Written English Tutoring System for Deaf Students

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Greenbacker, Charlie and Kathy McCoy. The ICICLE Project: An Overiew. First Annual Computer Science Research Day, Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Feb 2008.
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Davis, Rashida and Kathy McCoy. Framework for a Tutorial Response Generator in an Intelligent Tutoring System. First Annual Computer Science Research Day, Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Feb 2008.
[pdf poster (156K)]

Michaud, Lisa N. and McCoy, Kathleen F. Capturing the Evolution of Grammatical Knowledge in a CALL System for Deaf Learners of English. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED), 16(1): 65-97, 2006.
[abstract] [pdf (325K)] [text (104K)]

Michaud, Lisa N. and Kathleen F. McCoy and Rashida Z. Davis. A Model to Disambiguate Natural Language Parses on the Basis of User Language Proficiency: Design and Evaluation. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 15: 55-84, 2005.
[abstract] [pdf (226K)]

Michaud, Lisa N. and Kathleen F. McCoy. Empirical Derivation of a Sequence of User Stereotypes. User Modeling and User-Adaptive Interfaces 14: 317-350, 2004.
[abstract] [pdf (415K)]

Michaud, Lisa N. and Kathleen F. McCoy. Evaluating a Model to Disambiguate Natural Language Parses on the Basis of User Language Proficiency. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on User Modeling. Springer. ©Springer-Verlag, 2003.
[abstract] [postscript (239K)] [pdf (136K)]

Michaud, Lisa N. Modeling User Interlanguage in a Second Language Tutoring System for Deaf Users of American Sign Language PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE. Summer 2002.
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Michaud, Lisa N., Kathleen F. McCoy, and Litza A. Stark. Modeling the Acquisition of English: an Intelligent CALL Approach. In Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on User Modeling, July 13-17, 2001, Sonthofen, Germany. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2109, pages 14-23, Springer. ©Springer-Verlag, 2001.
[abstract] [postscript (176K)] [pdf (308K)]

Michaud, Lisa N., and Kathleen F. McCoy. Error Profiling: Toward a Model of English Acquisition for Deaf Learners. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2001), July 5-11, 2001, Toulouse, France, pages 386-393. ©Association for Computational Lingusitics, 2001.
[abstract] [postscript (112K)] [pdf (108K)]

Huenerfauth, Matthew Paul. The development of PETALS: Personality Tagged Logical Statistical Generator. Master's Thesis, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, Spring 2001.
[abstract] [postscript (607K)] [pdf (292K)] [text (124K)]

Stark, Litza. Analyzing the Interlanguage of ASL Natives. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, Spring 2001.
[abstract] [pdf (256K)] [text (76K)]

Michaud, Lisa N., Kathleen F. McCoy, and Chris A. Pennington. An Intelligent Tutoring System for Deaf Learners of Written English. In Proceedings of the Fourth International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS 2000), pages 92-100, November 13-15, 2000.
[abstract] [pdf (137K)] [text (48K)]

Michaud, Lisa N. and Kathleen F. McCoy (2000). Supporting Intelligent Tutoring in CALL by Modeling the User's Grammar. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium, Special Track on Artificial Intelligence in Instructional Software, May 22-24, Orlando, Florida, pages 50-54, 2000.
[abstract] [postscript (281K)] [pdf (149K)] [text (22K)]

Michaud, Lisa N. (1999). Toward a Morphosyntactic User Model for Language Analysis and Generation: A Ph.D. Thesis Proposal. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware. (Will be released as a Technical Report.)
[abstract] [postscript (1,188K)] [pdf (658K)] [text (229K)]

Michaud, Lisa N. and Kathleen F. McCoy (1999). Modeling User Language Proficiency in a Writing Tutor for Deaf Learners of English. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer-Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing, an ACL-IALL Workshop, College Park, Maryland, pages 47-54, June 22, 1999.
[abstract] [postscript (308K)] [pdf (164K)] [text (34K)]

Schneider, David and Kathleen F. McCoy (1998). Recognizing Syntactic Errors in the Writing of Second Language Learners. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Seventeenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL), Volume 2, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pages 1198-1204, August 10-14.
[abstract] [postscript (183K)] [pdf (194K)] [text (31K)]

Michaud, Lisa N., and Kathleen F. McCoy (1998). Planning Tutorial Text in a System for Teaching English as a Second Language to Deaf Learners. In Proceedings of Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Technology, an AAAI '98 Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, pages 32-39, July 26.
[abstract] [postscript (317K)] [pdf (183K)] [text (40K)]

Michaud, Lisa N. (1998). Tutorial Response Generation in a Writing Tool for Deaf Learners of English (an abstract and poster presentation). In Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '98), Madison, Wisconsin, July 26-30.
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McCoy, Kathleen F., and Masterman, Lisa N. (1997). A Tutor for Teaching English as a Second language for Deaf Users of American Sign Language, in Proceedings of Natural Language Processing for Communication Aids, an ACL/EACL'97 Workshop, Madrid, Spain, pages 160-164, July.
[abstract] [postscript (391K)] [pdf (174K)] [text (32K)]

McCoy, K. F., Pennington, C. A., & Suri, L. Z. (1996) English error correction: A syntactic user model based on principled "mal-rule" scoring. In Proceedings of UM-96, the Fifth International Conference on User Modeling. Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, January 1996, pp. 59-66.
[abstract] [postscript (388K)] [pdf (53K)] [text (45K)]

Suri, L. Z. (1993). Extending focusing frameworks to process complex sentences and correct the written English of proficient signers of American Sign Language. Technical Report 94-21, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
[abstract] [postscript (1.07M)] [pdf (991K)]

Suri, L. Z. & McCoy, K. F. (1993) Correcting Discourse-Level Errors in a CALL System for Second Language Learners. In Computer Assisted Language Learning, 6(3), pp. 215-231, 1993.

Suri, L. Z., & McCoy, K. F. (1993) Correcting discourse-level errors in a CALL system for second language learners. Technical Report 94-02, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
[abstract] [postscript (154K)] [pdf (186K)] [text (39K)]

Suri, L. Z., & McCoy, K. F. (1993). A methodology for developing an error taxonomy for a computer assisted language learning tool for second language learners. Technical Report 93-16, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
[abstract] [postscript (292K)] [pdf (297K)] [text (109K)]

Suri, L. Z. (1992). Correcting illegal NP omissions using local focus. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 273-275). University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
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Suri, L. Z. (1992). Using local focus to correct illegal NP omissions (a Ph.D. proposal). Technical Report 93-07, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
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McCoy, K. F., & Suri, L. Z. (1991). Natural language processing principles for improving deaf writing. Rehabilitation R & D Progress Reports / Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 29, 331.
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Suri, L. Z. (1991). Language transfer: A foundation for correcting the written English of ASL signers. Technical Report 91-19. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware.
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Suri, L. Z., & McCoy, K. F. (1991). Language transfer in deaf writing: A correction methodology for an instructional system. Technical Report 91-20. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware.
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