Publications

Book Chapters

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

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.

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

Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Kathleen F. McCoy, Seniz Demir, Peng Wu, Charles Greenbacker, Daniel Chester, Edward Schwartz, David Oliver, Priscilla Moraes. "Access to Multimodal Articles from Popular Media for Individuals with Sight Impairments", ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems, Vol.2, Issue 4, Article 21, 2012. accessible version | pdf

Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen McCoy. "Summarizing Information Graphics Textually", Computational Linguistics Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2012. pdf

Seniz Demir, David Oliver, Edward Schwartz, Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen F. McCoy. "Interactive SIGHT: Textual Access to Simple Bar Charts", New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Vol. 16, No. 3, December 2010, pp. 245-279. accessible version | pdf

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

Priscilla S. Moraes, Kathleen McCoy, and Sandra Carberry. "Enabling text readability awareness during the micro planning phase of NLG applications", In Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation Conference, pages 121-131, Edinburgh, Scotland, September, 2016. pdf

Priscilla S. Moraes, Gabriel Sina, Kathleen F. McCoy, and Sandra Carberry. "Evaluating the Accessibility of Line Graphs through Textual Summaries for Visually Impaired Users", In Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS ’14, pp. 83–90, October 20-22, 2014, Rochester, NY, USA. pdf

Priscilla S. Moraes, Kathleen McCoy and Sandra Carberry. "Adapting Graph Summaries to the Users’ Reading Levels", In Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG-2014, pages 64-73, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2014. pdf

Priscilla S. Moraes, Gabriel Sina, Kathleen McCoy and Sandra Carberry. "Generating Summaries of Line Graphs", In Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG-2014, pages 95-98, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2014. pdf

Priscilla S. Moraes, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen McCoy. 2013. "Providing access to the high-level content of line graphs from online popular media", In Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 11 , 10 pages. pdf

Charles F. Greenbacker, Peng Wu, Sandra Carberry, Kathleen F. McCoy, Stephanie Elzer, David D. McDonald, Daniel Chester, and Seniz Demir. "Improving the Accessibility of Line Graphs in Multimodal Documents", In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT 2011), pp. 52{62, Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July, 2011. pdf

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

Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen F. McCoy. "A Discourse-Aware Graph-Based Content-Selection Framework", in Proc. of INLG'2010. pdf

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

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

Seniz Demir. "TAIG: Textually Accessible Information Graphics", Extended Abstract, In Proc. of ASSETS'2008. pdf

Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen F. McCoy. "Generating Textual Summaries of Bar Charts", In Proc. of INLG'2008. pdf

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

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

Richard Burns, Stephanie Elzer and Sandra Carberry. "Estimating Effort for Trend Messages in Grouped Bar Charts", In Proc. of DIAGRAMS'2008. pdf

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

Peng Wu, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Stephanie Elzer. "Decision tree induction for identifying trends in line graphs", In Proc. of ISMIS'2008. pdf

Sandra Carberry and Stephanie Elzer. "Exploiting Evidence Analysis in Plan Recognition", In Proc. of UM'2007. (received Springer Best Paper Award) pdf

Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Stephanie Elzer. "Effectively Realizing the Inferred Message of an Information Graphic", In Proc. of RANLP'2007. pdf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Kathleen McCoy, and Daniel Chester. "Understanding Information Graphics: A Discourse-Level Problem", In Proc. of SIGDIAL'2003. pdf

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