Ron Artstein – Publications רון ארטשטיין

Publications

Journal articles

Olga Uryupina, Ron Artstein, Antonella Bristot, Federica Cavicchio, Francesca Delogu, Kepa J. Rodriguez, and Massimo Poesio. Annotating a broad range of anaphoric phenomena, in a variety of genres: The ARRAU corpus. Natural Language Engineering, in press. Abstract
Simon S. Woo, Ron Artstein, Elsi Kaiser, Xiao Le, and Jelena Mirkovic. Using episodic memory for user authentication. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security 22(2): Article 11, 2019. Abstract
Kathryn E. Muessig, Kelly A. Knudtson, Karina Soni, Margo Adams Larsen, David Traum, Willa Dong, Donaldson F. Conserve, Anton Leuski, Ron Artstein, and Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman. “I didn’t tell you sooner because I didn’t know how to handle it myself”: Developing a virtual reality program to support HIV-status disclosure decisions. Digital Culture and Education 10: 22–48, 2018. Abstract, PDF (1.4MB)
Albert Rizzo, Stefan Scherer, David DeVault, Jonathan Gratch, Ron Artstein, Arno Hartholt, Gale Lucas, Stacy Marsella, Fabrizio Morbini, Angela Nazarian, Giota Stratou, David Traum, Rachel Wood, Jill Boberg, and Louis-Philippe Morency. Detection and computational analysis of psychological signals using a virtual human interviewing agent. Journal of Pain Management 9(3): 311–321, 2016. Abstract
William Swartout, Ron Artstein, Eric Forbell, Susan Foutz, H. Chad Lane, Belinda Lange, Jacquelyn Morie, Dan Noren, Skip Rizzo, and David Traum. Virtual humans for learning. AI Magazine 34(4): 13-30, 2013. Abstract
Xuchen Yao, Emma Tosch, Grace Chen, Elnaz Nouri, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, Kenji Sagae, and David Traum. Creating conversational characters using question generation tools. Dialogue and Discourse 3(2): 125-146, 2012. Abstract, PDF (193K)
Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio. Inter-coder agreement for computational linguistics (survey article). Computational Linguistics 34(4): 555-596, 2008. Abstract, Journal preprint (PDF, 41 pages, 304K), Extended version (PDF, 66 pages, 367K)
An earlier version was distributed under the title “Kappa³ = alpha (or beta)” as Technical Report CSM-437, University of Essex Department of Computer Science, September 2005.
Massimo Poesio, Patrick Sturt, Ron Artstein, and Ruth Filik. Underspecification and Anaphora: Theoretical Issues and Preliminary Evidence. Discourse Processes 42(2): 157-175, 2006. Abstract, PDF preprint (150K)
Distributed as Technical report CSM-438, University of Essex Department of Computer Science, October 2005. PDF (143K)
Ron Artstein and Nissim Francez. Plurality and temporal modification. Linguistics and Philosophy 29(3): 251-276, 2006. Abstract, preprint in PDF (85K)
Quantificational arguments in temporal adjunct clauses. Linguistics and Philosophy 28(5): 541-597, 2005. Abstract, preprints in PDF (172K), PostScript (300K)
Coordination of parts of words. Lingua 115(4): 359-393, 2005. Abstract, preprints in PDF (150K), PostScript (238K)
Focus below the word level. Natural Language Semantics 12(1): 1-22, 2004. Abstract, preprints in PDF (135K), PostScript (165K)

Book articles

Bethany Lycan and Ron Artstein. Direct and mediated interaction with a Holocaust survivor. In Advanced Social Interaction with Agents: 8th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems, edited by Maxine Eskenazi, Laurence Devillers, and Joseph Mariani (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 510), pages 161–167. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2019. Abstract
Ron Artstein. Inter-annotator agreement. In Handbook of Linguistic Annotation, edited by Nancy Ide and James Pustejovsky, pages 297–313. Springer, Dordrecht, 2017. Abstract, PDF preprint (293K)
William Yang Wang, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, and David Traum. Improving spoken dialogue understanding using phonetic mixture models. In Cross-Disciplinary Advances in Applied Natural Language Processing: Issues and Approaches, edited by Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Philip M. McCarthy, and Travis A. Lamkin, chapter 15, pages 225–238. IGI Global, Hershey, Pensylvania, 2012. Abstract
Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Jillian Gerten, Anton Leuski and David Traum. Semi-formal evaluation of conversational characters. In Languages: From Formal to Natural. Essays Dedicated to Nissim Francez on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5533), edited by Orna Grumberg, Michael Kaminski, Shmuel Katz and Shuly Wintner, pages 22–35. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009. Abstract, PDF preprint (1.05M)

Conference proceedings

Dimmed flags indicate conferences in which I did not participate in person, and the paper was delivered by a co-author.

Usman Sohail, Carla Gordon, Ron Artstein, and David Traum. Character initiative in dialogue increases user engagement and rapport. In Semdial 2019 (LondonLogue): Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, pages 136–145. London, September 2019. Abstract, PDF paper (397KB)
Claire Bonial, Lucia Donatelli, Stephanie M. Lukin, Stephen Tratz, Ron Artstein, David Traum, and Clare R. Voss. Augmenting abstract meaning representation for human-robot dialogue. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR), pages 199–210. Florence, Italy, August 2019. Abstract, PDF paper (960KB)
Patricia Chaffey, Ron Artstein, Kallirroi Georgila, Kimberly A. Pollard, Setareh Nasihati Gilani, David M. Krum, David Nelson, Kevin Huynh, Alesia Gainer, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Rhys Yahata, and David Traum. Developing a virtual reality wildfire simulation to analyze human communication and interaction with a robotic swarm during emergencies. LTC ’19: 9th Language and Technology Conference. Poznań, Poland, May 2019. Abstract, PDF paper (491KB)
Ron Artstein, Carla Gordon, Usman Sohail, Chirag Merchant, Andrew Jones, Julia Campbell, Matthew Trimmer, Jeffrey Bevington, COL Christopher Engen, and David Traum. Digital survivor of sexual assault. IUI ’19: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 417–425. Marina del Rey, California, March 2019. Abstract, Video of the talk
Gale M. Lucas, Jill Boberg, David Traum, Ron Artstein, Jonathan Gratch, Alesia Gainer, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, and Mikio Nakano. Culture, errors, and rapport-building dialogue in social agents. Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pages 51–58. Sydney, Australia, November 2018. Abstract
Johnathan Mell, Gale Lucas, Jill Boberg, Ron Artstein, Jonathan Gratch, and Sharon Mozgai. Towards a repeated negotiating agent that treats people individually: Cooperation, social value orientation, & Machiavellianism. Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pages 125–132. Sydney, Australia, November 2018. Abstract
Matthew Marge, Claire Bonial, Stephanie M. Lukin, Cory J. Hayes, Ashley Foots, Ron Artstein, Cassidy Henry, Kimberly A. Pollard, Carla Gordon, Felix Gervits, Anton Leuski, Susan G. Hill, Clare R. Voss, and David Traum. Balancing efficiency and coverage in human-robot dialogue collection. AAAI Fall Symposium on Interactive Learning in Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction. Arlington, Virginia, October 2018. Abstract, PDF paper (5.5MB)
Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Jacqueline Brixey, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Ron Artstein, and Kallirroi Georgila. DialEdit: Annotations for spoken conversational image editing. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, pages 1–9. Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 2018. Abstract, PDF proceedings (9.8MB)
Stephanie M. Lukin, Kimberly A. Pollard, Claire Bonial, Matthew Marge, Cassidy Henry, Ron Artstein, David Traum, and Clare R. Voss. Consequences and factors of stylistic differences in human-robot dialogue. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2018 Conference: the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 110–118. Melbourne, Australia, July 2018. Abstract, PDF paper (187KB), PDF poster (1.2MB)
Ron Artstein, Jill Boberg, Alesia Gainer, Jonathan Gratch, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, Gale Lucas and David Traum. The Niki and Julie corpus: Collaborative multimodal dialogues between humans, robots, and virtual agents. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), pages 2928–2932. Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018. Abstract, PDF paper (641KB), PDF poster (1.6MB)
Jacqueline Brixey, Eli Pincus and Ron Artstein. Chahta Anumpa: A multimodal corpus of the Choctaw language. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), pages 3371–3376. Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018. Abstract, PDF (166KB)
Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Jacqueline Brixey, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Doo Soon Kim, Ron Artstein and Kallirroi Georgila. Edit me: A corpus and a framework for understanding natural language image editing. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), pages 4322–4326. Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018. Abstract, PDF paper (1.2MB), PDF poster (432KB)
David Traum, Cassidy Henry, Stephanie Lukin, Ron Artstein, Felix Gervits, Kimberly Pollard, Claire Bonial, Su Lei, Clare R. Voss, Matthew Marge, Cory J. Hayes and Susan G. Hill. Dialogue structure annotation for multi-floor interaction. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), pages 104–111. Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018. Abstract, PDF (562KB)
Claire Bonial, Stephanie M. Lukin, Ashley Foots, Cassidy Henry, Matthew Marge, Kimberly A. Pollard, Ron Artstein, David Traum and Clare R. Voss. Human-robot dialogue and collaboration in search and navigation. In Proceedings of the AREA Workshop: Annotation, Recognition, and Evaluation of Actions, Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018. Abstract, PDF (312KB)
Gale M. Lucas, Jill Boberg, David Traum, Ron Artstein, Jonathan Gratch, Alesia Gainer, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, and Mikio Nakano. Getting to know each other: The role of social dialogue in recovery from errors in social robots. In HRI’18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, Chicago, Illinois, March 2018. Abstract
Claire Bonial, Matthew Marge, Ron Artstein, Felix Gervits, Cory J. Hayes, Cassidy Henry, Susan G. Hill, Anton Leuski, Pooja Moolchandani, Kimberly A. Pollard, David Traum, and Clare R. Voss. Laying down the yellow brick road: Development of a Wizard-of-Oz interface for collecting human-robot dialogue. In AAAI Fall Symposium on Natural Communication for Human-Robot Collaboration, Arlington, Virginia, November 2017. Abstract, PDF (533KB)
Gale M. Lucas, Jill Boberg, David Traum, Ron Artstein, Jon Gratch, Alesia Gainer, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, and Mikio Nakano. The role of social dialogue and errors in robots. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, pages 431–433. Bielefeld, Germany, October 2017. (Poster) Abstract, PDF paper (713KB), PDF poster (4MB)
Eugenia Hee, Ron Artstein, Su Lei, Cristian Cepeda, and David Traum. Assessing differences in multimodal grounding with embodied and disembodied agents. 5th European and 8th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication. Bielefeld, Germany, October 2017. Abstract, PDF paper (842KB)
Anton Leuski and Ron Artstein. Lessons in dialogue system deployment. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2017 Conference: the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 352–355. Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2017. (Demo paper) Abstract, PDF paper (393KB), PDF poster (5.5MB)
Jacqueline Brixey, Rens Hoegen, Wei Lan, Joshua Rusow, Karan Singla, Xusen Yin, Ron Artstein, and Anton Leuski. SHIHbot: A Facebook chatbot for sexual health information on HIV/AIDS. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2017 Conference: the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 370–373. Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2017. (Demo paper) Abstract, PDF paper (12MB),
Matthew Marge, Claire Bonial, Ashley Foots, Cory Hayes, Cassidy Henry, Kimberly A. Pollard, Ron Artstein, Clare R. Voss, and David Traum. Exploring variation of natural human commands to a robot in a collaborative navigation task. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Grounding for Robotics, pages 58–66. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 2017. (Poster) Abstract, PDF paper (753KB), PDF poster (684KB)
Cassidy Henry, Pooja Moolchandani, Kimberly A. Pollard, Claire Bonial, Ashley Foots, Ron Artstein, Cory Hayes, Clare R. Voss, David Traum, and Matthew Marge. Towards efficient human-robot dialogue collection: Moving Fido into the virtual world. WiNLP workshop. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 2017. (Poster) Abstract, PDF paper (1.4MB), PDF poster (1.6MB)
Bethany Lycan and Ron Artstein. Direct and mediated interaction with a Holocaust survivor. In International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology. Farmington, Pennsylvania, June 2017. (Short paper/poster) Abstract, PDF paper (79KB), PDF poster (590KB)
Ron Artstein, David Traum, Jill Boberg, Alesia Gainer, Jonathan Gratch, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, and Mikio Nakano. Listen to my body: Does making friends help influence people? In Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, pages 430–435. Marco Island, Florida, May 2017. Abstract, PDF (1MB)
Simon S. Woo, Elsi Kaiser, Ron Artstein, and Jelena Mirkovic. Life-experience passwords (LEPs). In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pages 113–126. Los Angeles, December 2016. Abstract
Ron Artstein, David Traum, Jill Boberg, Alesia Gainer, Jonathan Gratch, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, and Mikio Nakano. Niki and Julie: A robot and virtual human for studying multimodal social interaction. In 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), pages 402–403. Tokyo, November 2016. (Demo paper) Abstract, PDF (2MB)
Matthew Marge, Claire Bonial, Kimberly A. Pollard, Ron Artstein, Brendan Byrne, Susan G. Hill, Clare Voss, and David Traum. Assessing agreement in human-robot dialogue strategies: A tale of two wizards. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 16th International Conference, IVA 2016, Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 20–23, 2016 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 10011), pages 484–488. Springer, Heidelberg, October 2016. (Poster) Abstract, PDF preprint (462KB), PDF poster (1.6MB)
Vasily Konovalov, Oren Melamud, Ron Artstein, and Ido Dagan. Collecting better training data using biased agent policies in negotiation dialogues. In Proceedings of WOCHAT, the Second Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agent Technologies. Los Angeles, September 2016. Abstract, PDF (603KB)
Satheesh Ravi and Ron Artstein. Language portability for dialogue systems: Translating a question-answering system from English into Tamil. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2016 Conference: the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 111–116. Los Angeles, September 2016. (Short paper/poster) Abstract, PDF paper (172KB), PDF poster (221KB)
Kelly Knudtson, Karina Soni, Kate Muessig, Margo Adams-Larsen, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, David Traum, Willa Dong, Donaldson Conserve, and Lisa Hightow-Weidman. Tough Talks: Developing a virtual reality application to support HIV status disclosure among young MSM. In 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) Abstract Book, page 717. Durban, South Africa, July 2016. PDF abstract (705KB)
Ron Artstein, Alesia Gainer, Kallirroi Georgila, Anton Leuski, Ari Shapiro, and David Traum. New Dimensions in Testimony demonstration. Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations, pages 32–36. Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, California, June 2016. Abstract, PDF paper (1.7MB), PDF poster (1.9MB)
Olga Uryupina, Ron Artstein, Antonella Bristot, Federica Cavicchio, Kepa Rodriguez, and Massimo Poesio. ARRAU: linguistically-motivated annotation of anaphoric descriptions. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), pages 2058–2062. Portorož, Slovenia, May 2016. Abstract, PDF (128KB)
Vasily Konovalov, Ron Artstein, Oren Melamud, and Ido Dagan. The Negochat corpus of human-agent negotiation dialogues. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), pages 3141–3145. Portorož, Slovenia, May 2016. Abstract, PDF (109KB)
Ron Artstein and Kenneth Silver. Ethics for a combined human-machine dialogue agent. In Ethical and Moral Considerations in Non-Human Agents: Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, pages 184–189. Stanford, California, March 2016. Abstract, PDF (618KB)
David Traum, Andrew Jones, Kia Hays, Heather Maio, Oleg Alexander, Ron Artstein, Paul Debevec, Alesia Gainer, Kallirroi Georgila, Kathleen Haase, Karen Jungblut, Anton Leuski, Stephen Smith, and William Swartout. New Dimensions in Testimony: Digitally Preserving a Holocaust Survivor’s Interactive Storytelling. In Interactive Storytelling: 8th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 30–December 4, 2015, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9445), pages 269–281. Springer, Heidelberg, December 2015. Best paper award Abstract, PDF (950KB)
David Traum, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, and Anton Leuski. Evaluating spoken dialogue processing for time-offset interaction. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2015 Conference: the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 199–208. Prague, Czech Republic, September 2015. Best paper award Abstract, PDF (182KB)
Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, Heather Maio, Tomer Mor-Barak, Carla Gordon, and David Traum. How many utterances are needed to support time-offset interaction? In Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, pages 144–149. Hollywood, Florida, May 2015. Abstract, PDF (784KB)
Simon S. Woo, Jelena Mirkovic, Ron Artstein, and Elsi Kaiser. Life-experience passwords (LEPs). In Who are you?! Adventures in Authentication: WAY Workshop. Menlo Park, California, July 2014. Abstract, PDF (121KB)
Jonathan Gratch, Ron Artstein, Gale Lucas, Giota Stratou, Stefan Scherer, Angela Nazarian, Rachel Wood, Jill Boberg, David DeVault, Stacy Marsella, David Traum, Skip Rizzo, and Louis-Philippe Morency. The Distress Analysis Interview Corpus of Human and Computer Interviews. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014), pages 3123–3128. Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014. Abstract, PDF (864KB)
David DeVault, Ron Artstein, Grace Benn, Teresa Dey, Ed Fast, Alesia Gainer, Kallirroi Georgila, Jon Gratch, Arno Hartholt, Margaux Lhommet, Gale Lucas, Stacy Marsella, Fabrizio Morbini, Angela Nazarian, Stefan Scherer, Giota Stratou, Apar Suri, David Traum, Rachel Wood, Yuyu Xu, Albert Rizzo, and Louis-Philippe Morency. SimSensei kiosk: A virtual human interviewer for healthcare Decision Support. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2014), pages 1061–1068, Paris, May 2014. Nominated for best paper award Abstract, PDF paper (1.2MB)
Ron Artstein, David Traum, Oleg Alexander, Anton Leuski, Andrew Jones, Kallirroi Georgila, Paul Debevec, William Swartout, Heather Maio, and Stephen Smith. Time-offset interaction with a Holocaust survivor. In IUI ’14: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 163–168, Haifa, Israel, February 2014. Abstract, PDF paper (729KB)
Lauren Faust and Ron Artstein. People hesitate more, talk less to virtual interviewers than to human interviewers. In Semdial 2013 DialDam: Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, pages 35–43, Amsterdam, December 2013. Abstract, PDF paper (1.5MB)
David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, Fabrizio Morbini, David Traum, Stefan Scherer, Albert (Skip) Rizzo and Louis-Philippe Morency. Verbal indicators of psychological distress in interactive dialogue with a virtual human. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference: the 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 193–202. Metz, France, August 2013. Abstract, PDF paper (922KB)
Fabrizio Morbini, Kartik Audhkhasi, Kenji Sagae, Ron Artstein, Doğan Can, Panayiotis Georgiou, Shri Narayanan, Anton Leuski and David Traum. Which ASR should I choose for my dialogue system? Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference: the 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 394–403. Metz, France, August 2013. Abstract, PDF paper (176KB)
Fabrizio Morbini, Kartik Audhkhasi, Ron Artstein, Maarten Van Segbroeck, Kenji Sagae, Panayiotis Georgiou, David R. Traum, and Shri Narayanan. A reranking approach for recognition and classification of speech input in conversational dialogue systems. In Fourth IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT). Miami Beach, Forida, December 2012. Abstract
Sunghyun Park, Gelareh Mohammadi, Ron Artstein, and Louis-Philippe Morency. Crowdsourcing micro-level multimedia annotations: The challenges of evaluation and interface. In International ACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia (CrowdMM). Nara, Japan, October 2012. Abstract
David Traum, Priti Aggarwal, Ron Artstein, Susan Foutz, Jillian Gerten, Athanasios Katsamanis, Anton Leuski, Dan Noren, and William Swartout. Ada and Grace: Direct interaction with museum visitors. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 12th International Conference, IVA 2012, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, September 12–14, 2012 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 7502), pages 245–251. Springer, Heidelberg, September 2012. Abstract
Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, Candy Sidner, Ron Artstein, Lixing Huang, and Louis-Philippe Morency. Towards building a virtual counselor: Modeling nonverbal behavior during intimate self-disclosure. In Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Valencia, Spain, June 2012. Abstract, PDF (557KB)
Priti Aggarwal, Ron Artstein, Jillian Gerten, Athanasios Katsamanis, Shrikanth Narayanan, Angela Nazarian, and David Traum. The Twins corpus of museum visitor questions. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), pages 2355–2361. Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012. Abstract PDF (745KB)
Elnaz Nouri, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski and David Traum. Augmenting Conversational Characters with Generated Question-Answer Pairs. In Question Generation: Papers form the AAAI Fall Symposium, pages 49–52. Arlington, Virginia, November 2011. Abstract
Priti Aggarwal, Kevin Feeley, Fabrizio Morbini, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, David Traum, and Julia Kim. Interactive characters for cultural training of small military units. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 11th International Conference, IVA 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15–17, 2011 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6895), pages 426–427. Springer, Heidelberg, 2011. (Poster) Abstract, PDF preprint (110KB), PDF poster (2MB)
Sin-Hwa Kang, Candy Sidner, Jonathan Gratch, Ron Artstein, Lixing Hwang, and Louis-Philippe Morency. Modeling nonverbal behavior of a virtual counselor during intimate self-disclosure. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 11th International Conference, IVA 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15–17, 2011 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6895), pages 455–457. Springer, Heidelberg, 2011. (Poster) Abstract
Ron Artstein, Michael Rushforth, Sudeep Gandhe, David Traum and Aram Donigian. Limits of simple dialogue acts for tactical questioning dialogues. Proceedings of the 7th IJCAI workshop on knowledge and reasoning in practical dialogue systems, pages 1–8. Barcelona, Spain, July 2011. Abstract, PDF (193KB)
Ron Artstein. Error return plots. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference: the 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 319–324. Portland, Oregon, June 2011. (Poster) Abstract, PDF paper (324KB), PDF poster (508KB)
Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, Angela Nazarian, Michael Rushforth, David Traum, and Katia Sycara. An annotation scheme for cross-cultural argumentation and persuasion dialogues. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference: the 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 272–278. Portland, Oregon, June 2011. (Poster) Abstract PDF (119KB)
William Yang Wang, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, and David Traum. Improving spoken dialogue understanding using phonetic mixture models. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, pages 329–334. Palm Beach, Florida, May 2011. Finalist for best paper award Abstract, PDF (1MB)
Grace Chen, Emma Tosch, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, and David Traum. Evaluating conversational characters created through question generation. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, pages 343–344. Palm Beach, Florida, May 2011. (Poster) Best poster award Abstract, PDF paper (57K), PDF poster (135KB)
Julia Campbell, Mark Core, Ron Artstein, Lindsay Armstrong, Arno Hartholt, Cyrus Wilson, Kallirroi Georgila, Fabrizio Morbini, Edward Haynes, Dave Gomboc, Mike Birch, Jonathan Bobrow, H. Chad Lane, Jillian Gerten, Anton Leuski, David Traum, Matthew Trimmer, Rich DiNinni, Matthew Bosack, Timothy Jones, Richard E. Clark, and Kenneth A. Yates. Developing INOTS to support interpersonal skills practice. 2011 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 2011. Abstract
Antonio Roque, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, Kenji Sagae, and David Traum. Natural language processing for joint fire observer training. 27th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida, December 2010. Abstract, PDF paper (164K), PDF poster (359K)
William Swartout, David Traum, Ron Artstein, Dan Noren, Paul Debevec, Kerry Bronnenkant, Josh Williams, Anton Leuski, Shrikanth Narayanan, Diane Piepol, Chad Lane, Jacquelyn Morie, Priti Aggarwal, Matt Liewer, Jen-Yuan Chiang, Jillian Gerten, Selina Chu, and Kyle White. Virtual museum guides demonstration. In 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, pages 163–164. Berkeley, California, December 2010. Abstract
William Swartout, David Traum, Ron Artstein, Dan Noren, Paul Debevec, Kerry Bronnenkant, Josh Williams, Anton Leuski, Shrikanth Narayanan, Diane Piepol, Chad Lane, Jacquelyn Morie, Priti Aggarwal, Matt Liewer, Jen-Yuan Chiang, Jillian Gerten, Selina Chu, and Kyle White. Ada and Grace: Toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 20–22, 2010 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6356), pages 286–300. Springer, Heidelberg, 2010. Abstract
Jenny Brusk, Ron Artstein, and David Traum. Don’t tell anyone! Two experiments on gossip conversations. Proceedings of the SIGdial 2010 Conference, pages 193–200. Tokyo, Japan, September 2010. Abstract PDF (244K)
Xuchen Yao, Pravin Bhutada, Kallirroi Georgila, Kenji Sagae, Ron Artstein, and David Traum. Practical evaluation of speech recognizers for virtual human dialogue systems. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), pages 1597–1602. Valetta, Malta, May 2010. (Poster) Abstract, PDF (400K)
Michael Rushforth, Sudeep Gandhe, Ron Artstein, Antonio Roque, Sarrah Ali, Nicolle Whitman, and David Traum. Varying personality in spoken dialogue with a virtual human. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 9th International Conference, IVA 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 14–16, 2009 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5773), pages 541–542. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009. (Poster) Abstract, PDF Abstract (68K)
An extended version is available as Technical Report ICT-TR-03-2009 (PDF, 228K), USC Institute for Creative Technologies, May 2009.
Sudeep Gandhe, Nicolle Whitman, David Traum and Ron Artstein. An integrated authoring tool for tactical questioning dialogue systems. In 6th Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Pasadena, California, July 2009. Abstract, PDF (577K)
Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Michael Rushforth and David Traum. Viability of a simple dialogue act scheme for a tactical questioning dialogue system. In DiaHolmia 2009: Proeedings of the 13th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, pages 43–50. Stockholm, Sweden, June 2009. Abstract, PDF (244K)
Ron Artstein, Jacob Cannon, Sudeep Gandhe, Jillian Gerten, Joe Henderer, Anton Leuski and David Traum. Coherence of off-topic responses for a virtual character. 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida, December 2008. Abstract, PDF paper (460K), PDF poster (1.7M)
Sudeep Gandhe, David DeVault, Antonio Roque, Bilyana Martinovski, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, Jillian Gerten, and David Traum. From domain specification to virtual humans: An integrated approach to authoring tactical questioning characters. Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. Abstract, PDF (427K)
David DeVault, David Traum and Ron Artstein. Making grammar-based generation easier to deploy in dialogue systems. Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 198–207. Columbus, Ohio, June 2008. Abstract, PDF (845K)
David DeVault, David Traum and Ron Artstein. Practical grammar-based NLG from examples. Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference, pages 77–85. Salt Fork, Ohio, June 2008. Abstract, PDF (376K)
Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein. Anaphoric annotation in the ARRAU corpus. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), pages 1170–1174. Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008. Abstract, PDF (191K)
Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Anton Leuski and David Traum. Field Testing of an interactive question-answering character. Proceedings of the ELRA workshop on evaluation, pages 36–40. Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008. Abstract, PDF (1.2M)
Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio. Identifying reference to abstract objects in dialogue. brandial 2006 proceedings, Potsdam, Germany, September 2006. Abstract, PDF (58K)
Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio. Bias decreases in proportion to the number of annotators. In Gerhard Jaeger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn, James Rogers, and Shuly Wintner (eds.), Proceedings of FG-MoL 2005, pages 141-150. Edinburgh, August 2005. Abstract, PDF (110K)
Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein. Annotating (anaphoric) ambiguity. Corpus linguistics, Birmingham, England, July 2005. Abstract, PDF (64K)
Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein. The reliability of anaphoric annotation, reconsidered: Taking ambiguity into account. Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky, pages 76-83. Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. Abstract, PDF (71K)
Ron Artstein and Nissim Francez. Plural times and temporal modification. In Paul Dekker and Robert van Rooy (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 63-68. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 2003. Superseded by Plurality and temporal modification, above.
A focus semantics for echo questions. In Ágnes Bende-Farkas and Arndt Riester (eds.), Workshop on Information Structure in Context, pp. 98-107. IMS, University of Stuttgart, 2002. Abstract, PDF (88K), PostScript (112K)
Coordination of word parts: a surface level account. In Graham Katz, Sabine Reinhard and Philip Reuter (eds.), Sinn und Bedeutung 6: Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, pp. 1-15. Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2002. Superseded by Coordination of parts of words, above.
Coordination of word parts is interpreted at surface level. In William Earl Griffin (ed.), The Role of Agreement in Natural Language: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Texas Linguistics Society Conference, pp. 73-84. Texas Linguistic Forum, Austin, 2003. Superseded by Coordination of parts of words, above.
Conjunction weakening and morphological plurality. In Karine Megerdoomian and Leora A. Bar-el (eds), WCCFL 20 Proceedings, pp. 29-42. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, 2001. PDF (68K), PostScript (72K)
Person, animacy and null subjects. In Tina Cambier-Langeveld, Anikó Lipták, Michael Redford and Erik Jan van der Torre (eds.), Proceedings of Console VII, pp. 1-15. SOLE, Leiden, 1999. Abstract, PDF (75K)
Group events as means for representing collectivity. In Benjamin Bruening (ed.), MITWPL 31: Proceedings of the Eighth Student Conference in Linguistics, pp. 41-51. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997. Abstract, PDF (37K), PostScript (128K)

Dissertation

Parts of Words: Compositional Semantics for Prosodic Constituents.

Book review

Review of Kadmon (2001), Formal Pragmatics. Research in Language 1: 197-202, 2003 (Łódź University Press, Łódź, Poland). PDF (24K), PostScript (44K)

Edited works

Ron Artstein, Mark Core, David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila, Elsi Kaiser and Amanda Stent (eds.). Semdial 2011 (Los Angelogue): Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Los Angeles, September 2011. Full workshop proceedings (PDF, 14 MB); individual papers can be accessed from the workshop program.
Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein (eds.). Ambiguity and Semantic Judgments (special issue). Research on Language and Computation 6(3-4), 2008. Table of Contents
Ron Artstein and Laure Vieu (eds.). Decalog 2007: Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Rovereto, Italy, May 2007. Full workshop proceedings (PDF, 5.1M); individual papers can be accessed from the workshop program.
Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio (eds.). Ambiguity in Anaphora Workshop Proceedings. European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information, Málaga, Spain, August 2006. Full workshop proceedings (PDF, 688K); individual papers can be accessed from the workshop program.
Ron Artstein and Madeline Holler (eds.). RuLing Papers 1: Working Papers from Rutgers University. Rutgers University Department of Linguistics, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998.

Working papers and technical reports.

Massimo Poesio, David Day, Ron Artstein, Jason Duncan, Vladimir Eidelman, Claudio Giuliano, Rob Hall, Janet Hitzeman, Alan Jern, Mijail Kabadjov, Stanley Yong Wai Keong, Gideon Mann, Alessandro Moschitti, Simone Ponzetto, Jason Smith, Josef Steinberger, Michael Strube, Jian Su, Yannick Versley, Xiaofeng Yang and Michael Wick. ELERFED: Final Report. Technical report of the research group on Exploiting Lexical and Encyclopedic Resources For Entity Disambiguation, Summer Workshop on Language Engineering, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October 2007. PDF (980K)
The incompatibility of underspecification and markedness in Optimality Theory. In Ron Artstein and Madeline Holler (eds.), RuLing Papers 1: Working Papers from Rutgers University, pp. 7-13. Rutgers University Department of Linguistics, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998. Abstract, PDF (25K)

Older unpublished manuscripts

Case constraints and empty categories in Optimality Theory parsing, April 2000. (24 pp.) PDF (139K), PostScript (114K)
Hierarchies, May 1998. (22 pp.) PDF (135K), PostScript (113K)
Antecedent-contained deletion within NPs, December 1997. (5 pp.) PDF (19K), PostScript (24K)