2025
Casey Kennington, Pierre Lison, David Schlangen. Prior Lessons of Incremental Dialogue and Robot Action Management for the Age of Language Models. arXiv.
2024
Adam Torek, Elijah Sorensen, Natalie Hahle, Casey Kennington. A Systematic Evaluation of Code-generating Chatbots for Use in Undergraduate Computer Science Education. In Proceedings of Frontiers in Education 2024.
Julian Hough, Sina Zarrieß, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen, Massimo Poesio. Conceptual Pacts for Reference Resolution using Small, Dynamically Constructed Language Models: A Study in Puzzle Building Dialogues. In Proceedings of LREC-CoLing, 2024.
Jun Zhuang and Casey Kennington. Understanding Survey Paper Taxonomy about Large Language Models via Graph Representation Learning. In Proceedings of Scholarly Document Processing (SDProc) 2024. (arXiv version)
Casey Kennington. Emotion and Language are Not Seperable: Emotion and Langauge via the Motor System. In Proceedings of EUtopia: Human-centred AI.
Casey Kennington. Word Concreteness and Word Originality: a Basque Case Study. BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal: Vol. 11 : Iss. 1 , Article 2.
Christine Pinney, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails. Incorporating Word-level Phonemic Decoding into Readability Assessment. In Proceedings of LREC-CoLing, 2204.
Christine Pinney, Benjamin Bettencourt, Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington. How Readability Cues Affect Children's Navigation of Search Engine Result Pages. In Proceedings of IDC, 2024.
Benjamin J Bettencourt, Maria Soledad Pera,Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails. Kid Query: Co-designing an Application to Scaffold Query Formulation. In Proceedings of IDC, 2024.
Christine Pinney, Benjamin Bettencourt, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails. Simple Visual Cues for Transparent Information Access: Starting with Web Search. In ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference '24: Workshop on Explainable and Transparent Child-Technology Interaction.
Benjamin Bettencourt, Maria Soledad Pera, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails. Co-designing for Education. In IDC 2024 Technology-Enhanced STEM Learning in Childhood Workshop.
Clayton Fields, Casey Kennington. Renaissance: Investigating the Pretraining of Vision-Language Encoders. arXiv, 2024.
Catherine Henry, Casey Kennington. Unsupervised, Bottom-up Category Discovery for Symbol Grounding with a Curious Robot. arXiv, 2024
Casey Kennington, Malihe Alikhani, Heather Pon-Barry, Katherine Atwell, Yonatan Bisk, Daniel Fried, Felix Gervits, Zhao Han, Mert Inan, Michael Johnston, Raj Korpan, Diane Litman, Matthew Marge, Cynthia Matuszek, Ross Mead, Shiwali Mohan, Raymond Mooney, Natalie Parde, Jivko Sinapov, Angela Stewart, Matthew Stone, Stefanie Tellex, Tom Williams. Dialogue with Robots: Proposals for Broadening Participation and Research in the SLIVAR Community. arXiv, 2024.
Eric L. Melin, Adam J. Torek, Nasir U. Eisty, Casey Kennington. Precision or Peril: Evaluating Code Quality from Quantized Large Language Models. arXiv., 2024.
2023
Clayton Fields & Casey Kennington. Exploring Transformers as Compact, Data-efficient Language Models. In Proceedings of CoNLL, 2023.
Clayton Fields, Osama Natouf, Andrew McMains, Catherine Henry, Casey Kennington. Tiny Language Models Enriched with Multimodal Knowledge from Multiplex Networks. In Proceedings of CoNLL, 2023.
Floriana Ciaglia, Massimo Stella, Casey Kennington. Investigating preferential acquisition and attachment in early word learning through cognitive, visual and latent multiplex lexical networks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. Elsevier, 2023.
Pierre Lison and Casey Kennington. Who's in Charge? Roles and Responsibilities of Decision-Making Components in Conversational Robots. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Human-Robot Conversational Interaction, 13 March 2023, Stockholm, Sweden
Ryan Whetten, Enoch Levandovsky, Mir Tahsin Imtiaz, Casey Kennington. Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding in an Incremental Setting. In the Proceedings of SemdDial, 2023.
Ryan Whetten & Casey Kennington. Evaluating and Improving Automatic Speech Recognition using Severity. Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing, 2023.
David Schlangen, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Shafiq Joty, Ondrej Dusek, Casey Kennington, Malihe Alikhani. Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023.
Casey Kennington. Modeling Lexical Semantics: from Concrete to Abstract. In Proceedings of AMLAP, 2023. (abstract)
Casey Kennington. Word Concreteness and Word Originality: a Basque Case Study. In Proceedings of Translation: Wor(l)ds in Other Wor(l)ds, 2023.
Benjamin Bettencourt, Assoumer Redempta Manzi Muneza, Michael Green, Samantha Anguiano, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera. "Who are you?'': Identifying Young Users from a Single Search Query. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’23 Adjunct), 2023.
Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera. Conversational Agents and Children: Let Children Learn. In Proceedings of AIAIC, 2023.
Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails. Children and Information Access: Fostering a Sense of Belonging. Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI Workshops 2023, March 2023, Sydney, Australia
Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera. A Multi-Perspective Learning to Rank Approach to Support Children's Information Seeking in the Classroom. In Proceedings of WI-IAT 2023.
Casey Kennington. On the Computational Modeling of Meaning: Embodied Cognition Intertwined with Emotion. arXiv, 2023.
Clayton Fields and Casey Kennington. Vision Language Transformers: A Survey. arXiv, 2023.
Ryan Whetten, Mir Tahsin Imtiaz, Casey Kennington. Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition in an Incremental Setting. arXiv, 2023.
2022
Josue Torres-Foncesca, Catherine Henry, Casey Kennington. Symbol and Communicative Grounding through Object Permanence with a Mobile Robot. In Proceedings of SigDial, 2022.
Casey Kennington. Understanding Intention for Machine Theory of Mind: a Position Paper. In Proceedings of RO-MAN, 2022.
Josue Torres-Foncesca, Casey Kennington. HADREB: Human Appraisals and (English) Descriptions of Robot Emotional Behaviors. In proceedings of LREC, 2022.
Casey Kennington & Osama Natouf. The Symbol Grounding Problem Re-framed as Concreteness-Abstractness Learned through Spoken Interaction. In Proceedings of SemDial, 2022.
Matthew Marge, Carol Espy-Wilson, Nigel G. Ward, Abeer Alwan, Yoav Artzi, Mohit Bansal, Gil Blankenship, Joyce Chai, Hal Daumé, Debadeepta Dey, Mary Harper, Thomas Howard, Casey Kennington, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Dinesh Manocha, Cynthia Matuszek, Ross Mead, Raymond Mooney, Roger K. Moore, Mari Ostendorf, Heather Pon-Barry, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Matthias Scheutz, Robert St. Amant, Tong Sun, Stefanie Tellex, David Traum, Zhou Yu. Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research. Computer Speech & Language, 2022.
Floriana Ciaglia, Massimo Stella, Casey Kennington. Investigating preferential acquisition and attachment in early word learning through cognitive, visual and latent multiplex lexical networks. psyarXiv preprint (accepted to Physica A in 2023, please use citation above)
Mir Tahsin Imtiaz and Casey Kennington. Incremental Unit Networks for Distributed, Symbolic Multimodal Processing and Representation. In Proceedings of HCI International, 2022.
Garrett Allen, Ashlee Milton, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington and Maria Soledad Pera. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Why Using the “Right” Readability Formula in Children’s Web Search Matters. In Proceedings of ECIR, 2022.
Benjamin Bettencourt, Arif Ahmed, Nic Way, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails. Searching for Engagement: Child Engagement and Search Engine Result Pages. IDC '22: Interaction Design and Children, 2022.
2021
Casey Kennington. Enriching Language Models with Visually-grounded Word Vectors and the Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms. In Proceedings of CoNLL, 2021. (nominated by reviewer for best paper) (video; error in presentation: I said CLIP was made by Facebook/Meta, but it's made by OpenAI)
Yolanda Rankin, Sana Tibi, Casey Kennington, Na-eun Han. In-Game Social Interactions to Facilitate ESL Students’ Morphological Awareness, Language & Literacy Skills. In Proceedings of CHIPlay, 2021.
Brody Downs, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails. KidSpell: Making a difference in spellchecking for children. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 2021.
Casey Kennington. Language Acquisition is Embodied, Interactive, and Emotive: a Research Proposal. In Proceedings of the Embodied Multimodal Learning Workshop, 2021. (ICRL Workshop, short paper)
Casey Kennington and David Schlangen. Incremental Unit Networks for Multimodal, Fine-grained Information State Representation. In Proceedings of the Multimodal Semantic Representations Workshop, 2021 (IWCS Workshop, short paper) (bib)
Casey Kennington. Natural Language Processing for Computer Scientists and Data Scientists at a Large State University. Workshop on Teaching NLP, 2021. (NAACL Workshop, long paper) (video)
Garrett Allen, Brody Downs, Aprajita Shukla, Casey Kennington, Jerry Fails, Katherine Wright and Maria Soledad Pera. BiGBERT: Classifying Educational Web Resources for Kindergarten-12th Grades. ECIR 2021 short paper track.
Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Wright, Maria Soledad Pera. Spellchecking for Children in Web Search: a Natural Language Interface Case-study. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (EACL), 2021. (short paper)
Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera. CASTing a Net: Supporting Teachers with Search Technology. In Proceedings of KidRec, 2021. (IDC workshop paper)
Garrett Allen, Benjamin Peterson, Dhanush kumar Ratakonda, Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Jerry Fails, Casey Kennington, Katherine Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. Engage!: Co-designing Search Engine Result Pages to Foster Interactions. In Proceedings of IDC, 2021 (work in progress paper)
Graham Annett, Hoda Mehrpouyan, Tim Andersen, Casey Kennington, Craig Primer. Detecting Adversarial Attacks through Neural Activations. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Security and Safety in Machine Learning Systems, 2021. (ICLR Workshop, short paper)
Casey Kennington & McKenzie Steenson. An Analysis of the Recent Visibility of the SigDial Conference. arXiv, 2021.
Casey Kennington. The State of SLIVAR: What's next for robots, human-robot interaction, and (spoken) dialogue systems?. arXiv, 2021.
2020
David McNeill and Casey Kennington. Learning Word Groundings from Humans Facilitated by Robot Emotional Displays. In Proceedings of SigDial, 2020. (video)
Olivier Pietquin, Smaranda Muresan, Vivian Chen, Casey Kennington, David Vandyke, Nina Dethlefs, Koji Inoue, Erik Ekstedt, Stefan Ultes. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2020.
Casey Kennington, Daniele Moro, Lucas Marchand, Jake Carns and David McNeill. rrSDS: Towards a Robot-ready Spoken Dialogue System. In Proceedings of SigDial, 2020. (demo paper) (video)
Daniele Moro, Gerardo Caracas, David McNeill and Casey Kennington. Semantics with Feeling: Emotions for Abstract Embedding, Affect for Concrete Grounding. In Proceedings of SemDial, 2020.
Eric Booth, Jake Carns, Casey Kennington, and Nader Rafla. Evaluating and Improving Child-Directed Automatic Speech Recognition. In Proceedings of LREC, 2020.
Brody Downs, Aprajita Shukla, Mikey Krentz, Maria Soledad Pera, Casey Kennington, Jerry Fails, Katherine Landau Wright. Guiding the Selection of Child Spellchecker Suggestions using Audio and Visual Cues. In Proceedings of IDC, 2020.
Brody Downs, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Aprajita Shukla, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington. KidSpell: A Child-Oriented, Rule-Based, Phonetic Spellchecker. In Proceedings of LREC, 2020.
2019
David McNeill and Casey Kennington. Predicting Human Interpretations of Affect and Valence in a Social Robot. Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2019. (bib) (presentation) (acknowledgement: experiments were run on a GPU donated by NVIDIA)
Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, William Bigirimana. Query Formulation Assistance for Kids: What is Available, When to Help & What Kids Want. Proceedings of the ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2019.
Nuhil Mehdy, Casey Kennington, Hoda Mehrpouyan. Privacy Disclosures Detection in Natural-Language Text Through Linguistically-motivated Artificial Neural Networks. SPNCE 2019 - 2nd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments.
Christine Howes, Julian Hough and Casey Kennington (Editors). Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 2019.
Brody Downs, Tyler French, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails. Searching for Spellcheckers: What Kids Want, What Kids Need. Proceedings of the ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2019. *Best Work-in-Progress Paper Award*
Brody Downs, Tyler French, Katherine Wright, Maria Soledad Pera, Casey Kennington and Jerry Fails. Children and Search Tools: Evaluation Remains Unclear. KidRec '19: Workshop in International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems, Co-located with ACM IDC, 2019. (workshop position paper)
Daniele Moro, Stacy Black, and Casey Kennington. Composing and Embedding the Words-as-Classifiers Model of Grounded Semantics. arXiv, 2019. (long paper, not peer-reviewed)
Andrew Rafla and Casey Kennington. Incrementalizing RASA's Open-Source Natural Language Understanding Pipeline. arXiv, 2019. (short paper, not peer-reviewed)
2018
Daniele Moro and Casey Kennington. Multimodal Visual and Simulated Tendon Activations for Grounded Semantics of Hand-related Descriptions. In Proceedings of SemDial, 2018. (code and data)
Soledad López Gambino, Sina Zarrieß, Casey Kennington and David Schlangen. Learning to Buy Time: A Data-Driven Model For Avoiding Silence While Task-Related Information Cannot Yet Be Presented. In Proceedings of SemDial, 2018.
Sarah Plane, Ariel Marvasti, Tyler Egan, and Casey Kennington. Predicting Perceived Age: Both Language Ability and Appearance are Important. Proceedings of SigDial, 2018. (bib)
Ting Han, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen. Placing Objects in Gesture Space: Toward Real-Time Understanding of Spatial Descriptions. Proceedings of the thirty-second AAAI conference on artificial intelligence (AAAI18), 2018.
2017
Casey Kennington and David Schlangen. A Simple Generative Model of Incremental Reference Resolution for Situated Dialogue. Computer Speech & Language, 2017. (Java code) (Python code)
Soledad Maria Lopez, Casey Kennington and David Schlangen. Silence, Please! Interrupting In-Car Phone Conversations. In Proceedings of The Workshop on Conversational Interruptions in Human-Agent Interaction (WCHIHAI), 2017.
Casey Kennington, Ting Han, and David Schlangen. 2017. Temporal Alignment using the Incremental Unit Framework. In Proceedings of 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3136769
Casey Kennington and Aprajita Shukla. A Graphical Digital Personal Assistant that Grounds and Learns Autonomously. In Proceedings of HAI, 2017.
Casey Kenningtonand Sarah Plane. Symbol, Conversational, and Societal Grounding with a Toy Robot. In Proceedings of Symposium on Natural Communication for Human-Robot Collaboration. AAAI, 2017. (poster abstract)
Dan Kondratyuk and Casey Kennington. Towards a Dialogue System with Long-term, Episodic Memory. In Proceedings of SemDial, 2017. (poster abstract)
Pierre Lison and Casey Kennington. Incremental Processing for Neural Conversation Models. In Proceedings of SemDial, 2017. (poster abstract)
2016
Casey Kennington and David Schlangen. Supporting Spoken Assistant Systems with a GUI That Signals Incremental Understanding and Prediction State. In Proceedings of SigDial, 2016. (bib)
Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Casey Kennington, David Devault and David Schlangen. Real-time Understanding of Complex, Discriminative Scene Descriptions. In Proceedings of SigDial, 2016. (bib)
David Schlangen, Sina Zarrieß and Casey Kennington. Resolving References to Objects in Photographs using the Words-As-Classifiers Model. In Proceedings of ACL, 2016. (bib) (code)
Pierre Lison and Casey Kennington. A Toolkit for Developing Spoken Dialogue Systems with Probabilistic Rules. In Proceedings of ACL, 2016. (demo paper) (bib)
Sina Zarrieß, Julian Hough, Casey Kennington, Ramesh Manuvinakurike, David DeVault, Raquel Fernandez, David Schlangen. PentoRef: A Corpus of Spoken References in Task-oriented Dialogues. In Proceedings of LREC 2016.
Casey Kennington. Incrementally Resolving References in Order to Identify Visually Present Objects in a Situated Dialogue Setting. Doctoral Dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2016.
Timo Baumann, Casey Kennington, Julian Hough, David Schlangen, Recognising Conversational Speech: What an Incremental ASR Should Do for a Dialogue System and How to Get There. In Proceedings of IWSDS 2016.
2015
Casey Kennington and David Schlangen. Simple Learning and Compositional Application of Perceptually Grounded Word Meanings for Incremental Reference Resolution. Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2015. (bib) (video) (Python code)
Ting Han, Casey Kennington and David Schlangen. Building and Applying Perceptually-Grounded Representations of Multimodal Scene Descriptions. In Proceedings of SEMDial 2015. Gothenburg, Sweden.
Casey Kennington, Ryu Iida, Takenobu Tokunaga, David Schlangen. Incrementally Tracking Reference in Human/Human Dialogue Using Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Information. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2015. (bib)
Casey Kennington, Livia Dia, and David Schlangen. A Discriminative Model for Perceptually-Grounded Incremental Reference Resolution. In Proceedings of IWCS 2015. (bib)
Julian Hough, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen and Jonathan Ginzburg. Incremental Semantics for Dialogue Processing: Requirements, and a Comparison of Two Approaches. In Proceedings of IWCS 2015. (bib)
Casey Kennington, Soledad Lopez Gambino and David Schlangen. Playing a Real-world Reference Game using the Words-as-Classifiers Model of Reference Resolution. In Proceedings of SEMDial 2015. Gothenburg, Sweden. (demo paper, lightly reviewed)
Pierre Lison and Casey Kennington. Developing Spoken Dialogue Systems with the OpenDial Toolkit . In Proceedings of SEMDial 2015. Gothenburg, Sweden. (demo paper, lightly reviewed)
2014
Spyros Kousidis, Casey Kennington, Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Stefan Kopp, David Schlangen. (2014). A Multimodal In-Car Dialogue System that Tracks the Driver's Attention. In Proceedings of ICMI 2014. ACM.
Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis, Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Stefan Kopp, David Schlangen. (2014). Better Driving and Recall When In-car Information Presentation Uses Situationally-Aware Incremental Speech Output Generation. In Proceedings of AutoUI'14. ACM.
Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis, and David Schlangen. Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding using a Multimodal, Linguistically-driven Update Model. Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, Dublin, Ireland. (bib)
Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis, and David Schlangen. InproTKs: A Toolkit for Incremental Situated Processing. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial 2014). (bib)
Casey Kennington and David Schlangen (2014). Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding Using Markov Logic Networks. Computer Speech and Language.
Spyros Kousidis, Casey Kennington, Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Stefan Kopp, David Schlangen. (2014). Situationally Aware In-Car Information Presentation Using Incremental Speech Generation: Safer, and More Effective. In Proceedings of Workshop on Dialog in Motion, EACL 2014. (bib)
Casey Kennington, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuki Takahashi, and Mikio Nakano. Probabilistic multiparty dialogue management for a game master robot. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-robot Interaction. Bielefeld, Germany, 2014. (late breaking report)
高橋裕己, Casey Kennington, 船越孝太郎, 中野幹生, 菅野重樹, and 早稲田大学. (2014). 確率的ルールを用いた多人数ロボット対話. 人工知能学会全国大会論文集, 28, 1–4.
Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis, and David Schlangen. Multimodal Dialogue Systems with InproTKs and Venice. In Proceedings of SemDial 2014. Edinburgh, Scotland. (p. 202-204) (poster abstract)
Casey Kennington, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuki Takahashi, and Mikio Nakano. Simple Timing for Probabilistic Multiparty Dialogue Management. Timing in Human-Robot Interaction, In Proceedings of Workshop at the Conference of Human-Robot Interaction 2014, Bielefeld, Germany. (workshop paper, lightly reviewed)
Casey Kennington and David Schlangen. Comparing Listener Gaze with Predictions of an Incremental Reference Resolution Model. RefNet workshop on Psychological and Computational Models of Reference Comprehension and Production. Edinburgh, Scotland, 2014. (abstract)
2013
Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis, and David Schlangen. Interpreting Stutated Dialogue Utterances: an Update Model that Uses Speech, Gaze, and Gesture Information. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial 2013). (bib) (video) (Note! please see addendum)
Spyros Kousidis, Casey Kennington, and David Schlangen. Investigating speaker gaze and pointing behaviour in human-computer interaction with the mint.tools collection. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial 2013). (short paper) (bib)
Layla El Asri, Nina Dethlefs, Matthew Henderson, Casey Kennington, Chris Mitchell, Niels Schütte, Martín Villalba and Denis Baheux. 2013. Proceedings of the Young Researcher’s Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems. Co-located with the 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial). Metz, France. (Proceedings of position papers)
2012
Casey Kennington and David Schlangen (2012). Markov Logic Networks for Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial 2012). (bib) (slides) (video)
Casey Kennington. Markov Logic Networks for Spatial Language in Reference Resolution. Proccedings of the ESSLLI 2012 Student Session, Opole, Poland, August 6-17, 2012 (Edited by Rendsvig, R.K and Katenko, S.) (slides)
Casey Redd Kennington, Martin Kay, Annemarie Friedrich (2012). Suffix Trees as Language Models. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12). (bib) (slides) (Java code) (Python code)
2011
Master's Thesis (2011) Suffix Trees as an Implementation Technique for Vairable-Length N-gram Language Models. Supervised by Professor Martin Kay.
Jia Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Casey Kennington, David Vilar, Xiaojun Zhang (2011). DFKI Hybrid Machine Translation System for WMT 2011 - On the Integration of SMT and RBMT. Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. (bib)
2008
C. Ray Graham, Deryle Lonsdale, Casey Kennington, Aaron Johnson and Jeremiah McGhee (2008). Elicited Imitation as an Oral Proficiency Measure with ASR Scoring. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08). (bib)
Other
Kandylaki, K. D., Kennington, C. R. , Niefind, F., Rebmann, A., Shore, T., Pyykkönen, P. Verb Aspect and Causality in Situation Models. 48th StuTS, Potsdam, November 19, 2010. (Student Presentation)