Joyce Y. Chai
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
3115 Engineering Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Office phone: 1-517-432-9239

jchai    AT   cse   DOT    msu   DOT   edu

 

 

Joyce Chai  received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University in 1998. Prior to joining MSU in 2003, she was a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. Her research interests include natural language processing, situated dialogue agents, information extraction and retrieval, and intelligent user interfaces. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2004 and a co-recipient of the ACL Best Long Paper Award in 2010. At MSU, she is directing Language and Interaction Research (LAIR) Group. She is also a faculty member affliated with the MSU Cognitive Science Program. 

 

 

Teaching

Research

 

See LAIR research page for current research projects.

 

Recent Publications

M. Gerber and J. Y. Chai. Semantic Role Labeling of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates, Computational Linguistics, vol. 38, issue 4,  in press., 2012.

 

R. Fang, C. Liu, and J. Y. Chai. Integrating Word Acquisition and Referential Grounding towards Physical World Interaction. The 14th ACM  International Conference on Multimodal Interactions (ICMI), Santa Monica, CA, October 22-26, 2012.

 

C. Liu, R. Fang, and J. Y. Chai. Towards Mediating Shared Perceptual Basis in Situated Dialogue. The 13th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Seoul, Korea, July 2012.

 

T. Baldwin and J. Y. Chai.  Autonomous Self-Assessment of Autocorrections: Exploring Text Message Dialogues, 2012 Conference of the North America Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), pp. 710-719, Montreal, Canada, June 3-8, 2012.

 

T. Baldwin and J. Y. Chai.  Towards Online Adaptation and Personalization of Key-Target Resizing for Mobile Devices. 2012 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 11-20, Lisbon, Portugal, February 14-17, 2012.

 

T. Baldwin and J. Y. Chai. Beyond Normalization: Pragmatics of Word Form in Text Messages. The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 8-13, 2011.

 

C. Zhang and J. Y. Chai. Towards Conversation Entailment: An Empirical Investigation. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pp. 756-766, MIT, MA, October, 2010.

 

Z. Prasov and J. Y. Chai. Fusing Eye Gaze with Speech Recognition Hypotheses to Resolve Exophoric References in Situated Dialogue. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pp. 471-481, MIT, MA, October, 2010.

 

C. Liu, J. Walker, and J. Y. Chai. Ambiguities in Spatial Language Understanding in Situated Human Robot Dialogue. AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium on Dialogue with Robots. Arlington, VA. November 2010.

 

 T. Baldwin, J. Y. Chai, and K. Kirchhoff. Hand Gestures in Disambiguating Types of You Expressions in Multiparty Meetings. The 11th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 306-313, Tokyo, Japan, September, 2010. 

 

M. Gerber and J. Y. Chai. Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates.  The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 1583-1592, Uppsala, Sweden. July 11-16, 2010.  (Best Long Paper Award).

 

S. Qu and J. Y. Chai. Context-based Word Acquisition for Situated Dialogue in a Virtual World. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 37, pp.347-377, March 2010.