Publications

Book Chapters

• [BC-1] Stephanie Elzer, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir, and Peng Wu. "Bar Charts in Popular Media: Conveying Their Message to Visually Impaired Users via Speech", Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Advances in Intelligent Information Systems, Springer, Volume 265, pp. 275-298, 2010. pdf
  
• [BC-2] Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Stephanie Elzer. "Issues in Realizing the Overall Message of a Bar Chart", Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, John Benjamins, Volume 5, pp. 311-320, 2009. pdf
• [BC-3] Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Richard Burns, Peng Wu, Daniel Chester, and Seniz Demir. "Information Graphics in Multimodal Documents", Multimedia Information Extraction, AAAI/MIT Press, to appear.

Journal Publications

• [J-1] Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry, and James Hoffman. "A Model of Perceptual Task Effort for Bar Charts and its Role in Recognizing Intention", International Journal on User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 16(1), pp. 1-30, 2006. (Received James Chen 2006 Award for Best Paper) pdf

Conference Proceedings

• [C-1] Richard Burns, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer. "Visual and Spatial Factors in a Bayesian Reasoning Framework for the Recognition of Intended Messages in Grouped Bar Charts", in Proc. of AAAI'2010 Workshop: Visual Representations and Reasoning. pdf
• [C-2] Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen F. McCoy. "A Discourse-Aware Graph-Based Content-Selection Framework", in Proc. of INLG'2010. pdf
• [C-3] Seniz Demir, David Oliver, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, and Kathleen F. McCoy. "Interactive SIGHT into Information Graphics", In Proc. of W4A'2010. pdf
• [C-4] Richard Burns, Stephanie Elzer and Sandra Carberry. "Modeling Relative Task Effort for Grouped Bar Charts", In Proc. of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society'2009. pdf
• [C-5] Seniz Demir. "TAIG: Textually Accessible Information Graphics", Extended Abstract, In Proc. of ASSETS'2008. pdf
• [C-6] Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen F. McCoy. "Generating Textual Summaries of Bar Charts", In Proc. of INLG'2008. pdf
• [C-7] Stephanie Elzer, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir, and Peng Wu. "Accessible Bar Charts for Visually Impaired Users", In Proc. of TeleHealth/AT'2008. pdf
• [C-8] Richard Burns, Sandra Carberry and Stephanie Elzer. "Processing Information Graphics in Multimodal Documents", Papers from the AAAI'2008 Fall Symposium: Multimedia Information Extraction, Technical Report. pdf
• [C-9] Richard Burns, Stephanie Elzer and Sandra Carberry. "Estimating Effort for Trend Messages in Grouped Bar Charts", In Proc. of DIAGRAMS'2008. pdf
• [C-10] Stephanie Elzer, Richard Burns and Sandra Carberry. "The Role of Cognitive Modeling in an Automated System for Understanding Bar Charts", In Proc. of SC '2008 Workshop on Cognitive Models of Human Spatial Reasoning. pdf
• [C-11] Peng Wu, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Stephanie Elzer. "Decision tree induction for identifying trends in line graphs", In Proc. of ISMIS'2008. pdf
• [C-12] Sandra Carberry and Stephanie Elzer. "Exploiting Evidence Analysis in Plan Recognition", In Proc. of UM'2007. (received Springer Best Paper Award) pdf
• [C-13] Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Stephanie Elzer. "Effectively Realizing the Inferred Message of an Information Graphic", In Proc. of RANLP'2007. pdf
• [C-14] Stephanie Elzer, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir, and Peng Wu. "A Browser Extension for Providing Visually Impaired Users Access to the Content of Bar Charts on the Web", In Proc. of WEBIST'2007. pdf
• [C-15] Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, and Seniz Demir. "Communicaative Signals as the Key to Automated Understanding of Simple Bar Charts", In Proc. of DIAGRAMS'2006. (received Best Paper Award) pdf 
• [C-16] Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, Ingrid Zukerman, Daniel Chester, Nancy Green, and Seniz Demir. "A Probabilistic Framework for Recognizing Intention in Information Graphics", In Proc. of IJCAI'2005. pdf
• [C-17] Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir, Nancy Green, and Ingrid Zukerman. "Exploring and Exploiting the Limitied Utility of Captions in Recognizing Intention in Information Graphics", In Proc. of ACL'2005. pdf
• [C-18] Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry, and James Hoffman. "Incorporating Perceptual Task Effort into the Recognition of Intention in Information Graphics", In Proc. of DIAGRAMS'2004. pdf
• [C-19] Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Kathleen McCoy, and Daniel Chester. "Extending Document Summarization to Information Graphics", In Proc. of ACL'2004 Workshop on Text Summarization. pdf
• [C-20] Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen McCoy. "Extending Plan Inference Techniques to Recognize Intentions in Information Graphics", In Proc. of UM'2003. pdf
• [C-21] Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, and Sandra Carberry. "Exploiting Cognitive Psychology Research for Recognizing Intention in Information Graphics", In Proc. of the Cognitive Society Conference'2003. pdf
• [C-22] Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Kathleen McCoy, and Daniel Chester. "Understanding Information Graphics: A Discourse-Level Problem", In Proc. of SIGDIAL'2003. pdf
• [C-23] Kathleen McCoy, Sandra Carberry, Tom Roper, and Nancy Green. "Towards Generating Textual Summaries of Graphs", In Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction'2001. pdf