Joyce Chai Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering 3115 Engineering Building Michigan State University

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 .... msu....edu

I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Duke University . Before joining MSU in January 2003, I was a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where I conducted research on multimodal and natural language conversational systems with my colleagues at Intelligent Multimedia Interaction Group and Conversational Systems Group .

Teaching

Spring 2008: CSE260, Discrete Structures in Computer Science
Fall 2007: CSE841, Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2007: CSE891 Section 005, Computational Semantics and Discourse
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Research

I am broadly interested in natural language processing, multimodal conversation systems, information retrieval and text mining, and human computer interaction. I am also affiliated with MSU Cognitive Science Program. My current work involves robust multimodal interpretation in conversational systems, discourse processing for context/conversational question answering, and context-based multimedia information seeking.

Here is a list of funded projects.

Recent Publications

What’s in a Gaze? The Role of Eye-Gaze in Reference Resolution in Multimodal Conversational Interfaces. Z. Prasov and J. Chai. ACM 12^th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI). Canary Islands , Jan 13-17, 2008 .
Beyond Attention: The Role of Deictic Gesture in Intention Recognition in Multimodal Conversational Interfaces. S. Qu and J. Chai. ACM 12^th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI). Canary Islands , Jan 13-17, 2008 .
Discourse Processing for Context Question Answering based on Linguistic Knowledge. M. Sun and J. Chai. Knowledge-based Systems, Special Issues on Intelligent User Interfaces, Volume 20, Issue 6, pp. 511-526, August 2007.
Automated Vocabulary Acquisition and Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems. Y. Liu, J. Chai, and R. Jin. The 45^th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-30, 2007.
An Exploration of Eye Gaze in Spoken Language Processing for Multimodal Conversational Interfaces. S. Qu and J. Chai. 2007 Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL-07), Rochester NY, April, 2007.
Eye Gaze for Attention Prediction in Multimodal Human Machine Conversation. Z. Prasov, J. Chai, and H. Jeong. The AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium on Interaction Challenges for Artificial Assistants, Palo Alto , CA. March 2007.
An Empirical Investigation of User Term Feedback in Targeted Image Search via Text-based Retrieval. J. Chai, C. Zhang, and R. Jin. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol 25(1), February 2007.

Selected Publications by Research Topics

Selected Publications by Year