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

Teaching

Current LAIR Research Projects:

• Shared Gaze in Collaborative Referring

• Research Infrastructure for Multimodal Language Processing in Situated Human Robot Dialogue

• Robust Multimodal Interpretation in Conversational Systems

• Conversation Entailment

• Implicit Argument in Nominal Semantic Role Labeling

• 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 11^th 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.

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