Publications

Jay Orten and Nancy Fulda. 2025. Improving Controlled Text Generation via Neuron-level Control Codes. In the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence.

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@inproceedings{orten2025improving, title={Improving Controlled Text Generation via Neuron-level Control Codes}, author={Orten, Jay and Fulda, Nancy}, year={2025}, maintitle={17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence} }

Yeganeh Nasiri and Nancy Fulda. 2024.  Designing a Language-Model-Based Chatbot that Considers User’s Personality Profile and Emotions To Support Caregivers of People With Dementia. In The First International OpenKG Workshop: Large Knowledge-Enhanced Models.

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@inproceedings{nasiri2024designing, title={Designing a Language-Model-Based Chatbot that Considers User’s Personality Profile and Emotions To Support Caregivers of People With Dementia}, author={Nasiri, Yeganeh and Fulda, Nancy}, year={2024}, booktitle={The First International OpenKG Workshop: Large Knowledge-Enhanced Models} }

Bangyu Wang, Nancy Fulda, Zhengyang Huang, Grant G. Schultz, Gregory S. Macfarlane, Joseph Arnesen, and Adnan Khayyat. 2024. Predicting Directional Traffic Volume at Intersections with Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures Data Using Machine Learning Algorithms. Transportation Research Record (2024), 03611981241252829.

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@article{wang2024predicting, title={Predicting Directional Traffic Volume at Intersections with Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures Data Using Machine Learning Algorithms}, author={Wang, Bangyu and Fulda, Nancy and Huang, Zhengyang and Schultz, Grant G and Macfarlane, Gregory S and Arnesen, Joseph and Khayyat, Adnan}, journal={Transportation Research Record}, pages={03611981241252829}, year={2024}, publisher={SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA} }

Kyle Rogers, Hao Yu, Seong-Eun Cho, Nancy Fulda, Jordan Yorgason, and Tyler J Jarvis. 2024. Decoupling the Backward Pass Using Abstracted Gradients. Leveraging Biological Mechanisms in Machine Learning (2024), 24.

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@article{rogers2024decoupling, title={Decoupling the Backward Pass Using Abstracted Gradients}, author={Rogers, Kyle and Yu, Hao and Cho, Seong-Eun and Fulda, Nancy and Yorgason, Jordan and Jarvis, Tyler J}, journal={Leveraging Biological Mechanisms in Machine Learning}, pages={24}, year={2024}, publisher={Brigham Young University} }

Taylor Barton, Shea Smith, Yu Hao, Ryan Watson, Kyle Rogers, Parker Allred, Bibhu Datta Sahoo, Nancy Fulda, Jordan Yorgason, Karl Warnick, and others. 2024. A Subthreshold Time-Domain Analog Spiking Neuron With PLL-Based Leak Circuit and Capacitive DAC Synapse. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (2024).

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@article{barton2024subthreshold, title={A Subthreshold Time-Domain Analog Spiking Neuron With PLL-Based Leak Circuit and Capacitive DAC Synapse}, author={Barton, Taylor and Smith, Shea and Hao, Yu and Watson, Ryan and Rogers, Kyle and Allred, Parker and Sahoo, Bibhu Datta and Fulda, Nancy and Yorgason, Jordan and Warnick, Karl and others}, journal={IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters}, year={2024}, publisher={IEEE} }

Tzu-Yu Weng, Ananya Gupta, Bart P. Knijnenburg, Mainack Mondal, Nancy Fulda, and Xinru Page. 2024. Identifying Tensions that Arise in Cross-cultural Online Communication. In IUI Workshops.

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@inproceedings{weng2024identifying, title={Identifying Tensions that Arise in Cross-cultural Online Communication.}, author={Weng, Tzu-Yu and Gupta, Ananya and Knijnenburg, Bart P and Mondal, Mainack and Fulda, Nancy and Page, Xinru}, booktitle={IUI Workshops}, year={2024} }

Mainack Mondal, Anju Punuru, Tyng-Wen Scott Cheng, Kenneth Vargas, Chaz Gundry, Nathan .S Driggs, Noah Schill, Nathaniel Carlson, Josh Bedwell, Jaden Q. Lorenc, Isha Ghosh, Yao Li, Nancy Fulda, Xinru Page. 2023.  A Tale of Two Cultures: Comparing Interpersonal Information Disclosure Norms on Twitter. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 7, Issue CSCW2, Article 254, Pages 1-40. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610045

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@article{Mondal_Punuru_Cheng_Vargas_Gundry_Driggs_Schill_Carlson_Bedwell_Lorenc_et al._2023, title={A tale of two cultures: Comparing Interpersonal Information Disclosure Norms on Twitter}, volume={7}, DOI={10.1145/3610045}, number={CSCW2}, journal={Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction}, author={Mondal, Mainack and Punuru, Anju and Cheng, Tyng-Wen Scott and Vargas, Kenneth and Gundry, Chaz and Driggs, Nathan S. and Schill, Noah and Carlson, Nathaniel and Bedwell, Josh and Lorenc, Jaden Q. and et al.}, year={2023}, pages={1–40}}

Trevor Ashby, Braden Webb, Gregory Knapp, Jackson Searle, and Nancy Fulda. 2023. Personalized Quest and Dialogue Generation in Role-Playing Games: A Knowledge Graph- and Language Model-based Approach. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581441

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@article{CHI2023, title={Personalized Quest and Dialogue Generation in Role-Playing Games: A Knowledge Graph- and Language Model-based Approach}, author={Trevor Ashby, Nancy Fulda,  Braden Webb, Gregory Knapp, and Jackson Searle}, isbn = {9781450394215}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, location = {Hamburg, Germany}, series = {CHI ’23}, year={2023} }

Lisa P. Argyle, Ethan C. Busby, Nancy Fulda, Joshua Gubler, Christopher Rytting, and David Wingate. Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples. Political Analysis, 2023.

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@article{argyle2022out, title={Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples}, author={Argyle, Lisa P and Busby, Ethan C and Fulda, Nancy and Gubler, Joshua and Rytting, Christopher and Wingate, David}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06899}, year={2022} }

Taylor Barton, Hao Yu, Kyle Rogers, Nancy Fulda, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Jordan Yorgason, and Karl F. Warnick. Towards Low-Power Machine Learning Architectures Inspired by Brain Neuromodulatory Signaling. Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications 12, no. 4 (2022): 59.

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@article{barton2022towards, title={Towards Low-Power Machine Learning Architectures Inspired by Brain Neuromodulatory Signalling}, author={Barton, Taylor and Yu, Hao and Rogers, Kyle and Fulda, Nancy and Chiang, Shiuh-hua Wood and Yorgason, Jordan and Warnick, Karl F}, journal={Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications}, volume={12}, number={4}, pages={59}, year={2022}, publisher={MDPI} }

Nathaniel Robinson, Nathaniel Carlson, David Mortensen, Elizabeth Vargas, Thomas Fackrell, Nancy Fulda, Task-dependent Optimal Weight Combinations for Static Embeddings, Northern European Journal of Language Technology, 8 (1), 2022.

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@article{robinson2022task, title={Task-dependent Optimal Weight Combinations for Static Embeddings}, author={Robinson, Nathaniel and Carlson, Nathaniel and Mortensen, David and Vargas, Elizabeth and Fackrell, Thomas and Fulda, Nancy}, journal={Northern European Journal of Language Technology}, volume={8}, number={1}, year={2022} }

Taylor Sorensen, Joshua Robinson, Christopher Michael Rytting, Alexander Glenn Shaw, Kyle Jeffrey Rogers, Alexia Pauline Delorey, Mahmoud Khalil, Nancy Fulda, and David Wingate. An Information-theoretic Approach to Prompt Engineering Without Ground Truth Labels. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022.

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@article{sorensen2022information, title={An Information-theoretic Approach to Prompt Engineering Without Ground Truth Labels}, author={Sorensen, Taylor and Robinson, Joshua and Rytting, Christopher Michael and Shaw, Alexander Glenn and Rogers, Kyle Jeffrey and Delorey, Alexia Pauline and Khalil, Mahmoud and Fulda, Nancy and Wingate, David}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.11364}, year={2022} }

Berkeley Andrus and Nancy Fulda, A Data-Driven Architecture for Social Behavior in Creator Networks, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), 2022.

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@article{andrusdata, title={A Data-Driven Architecture for Social Behavior in Creator Networks}, author={Andrus, Berkeley and Fulda, Nancy}, year={2022}}

Nathaniel R Robinson, Cameron J. Hogan, Nancy Fulda, and David R. Mortensen.  Data-adaptive Transfer Learning for Translation: A Case Study in Haitian and Jamaican, Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on LoRes MT, 2022.

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@article{robinson2022data, title={Data-adaptive Transfer Learning for Translation: A Case Study in Haitian and Jamaican}, author={Robinson, Nathaniel R and Hogan, Cameron J and Fulda, Nancy and Mortensen, David R}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06295}, year={2022} }

Nancy Fulda, Chaz Gundry,  Conversational AI as Improvisational Co-Creation – A Dialogic Perspective, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), 2022.

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@inproceedings{fuldaconversational,title={Conversational AI as Improvisational Co-Creation – A Dialogic Perspective},author={Fulda, Nancy and Gundry, Chaz},booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC)},year={2022}}

Berkeley Andrus, Yeganeh Nasiri, Shilong Cui, Ben Cullen, Nancy Fulda,  Enhanced Story Comprehension for Large Language Models through Dynamic Document-Based Knowledge Graphs, Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 2022.

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@article{Andrus_Nasiri_Cui_Cullen_Fulda_2022, title={Enhanced story comprehension for large language models through dynamic document-based knowledge graphs}, volume={36}, DOI={10.1609/aaai.v36i10.21286}, number={10}, journal={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, author={Andrus, Berkeley R and Nasiri, Yeganeh and Cui, Shilong and Cullen, Benjamin and Fulda, Nancy}, year={2022}, pages={10436–10444}}

Nancy Fulda, Tyler Etchart, and Will Myers, Choose Your Words Wisely: Leveraging Embedded Dialog Trajectories to Enhance Performance in Open-Domain Conversations, In: Rocha A.P., Steels L., van den Herik J. (eds) Agents and Artificial Intelligence. ICAART 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12613. Springer, Cham.

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@InProceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-71158-0_11, author={Fulda, Nancy and Etchart, Tyler and Myers, Will}, editor={Rocha, Ana Paula and Steels, Luc and van den Herik, Jaap}, title={Choose Your Words Wisely: Leveraging Embedded Dialog Trajectories to Enhance Performance in Open-Domain Conversations}, booktitle={Agents and Artificial Intelligence}, year={2021}, publisher={Springer International Publishing}, address={Cham}, pages={236–253}, isbn={978-3-030-71158-0}}

Nancy Fulda and Nathaniel Robinson, Improved Word Representations Via Summed Target and Context Embeddings, Proceedings of the IEEE 19th World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics, January 2021.

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@inproceedings{fulda2021improved,
title={Improved Word Representations Via Summed Target and Context Embeddings},
author={Nancy Fulda and Nathaniel Robinson},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE 19th World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics},
year={2021}
}

Nathaniel Robinson, Zachary Brown, Timothy Sitze and Nancy Fulda, Text Classifications Learned from Language Model Hidden Layers, Proceedings of the IEEE 19th World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics, January 2021.

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@inproceedings{robinson2021text,
title={Text Classifications Learned from Language Model Hidden Layers},
author={Nathaniel Robinson and Zachary Brown and Timothy Sitze and Nancy Fulda},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE 19th World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics},
year={2021}
}

Zachary Brown, Nathaniel Robinson, David Wingate and Nancy Fulda, Towards Neural Programming Interfaces, Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2020.

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@inproceedings{brown2020NPI,
title={Towards Neural Programming Interfaces},
author={Zachary Brown and Nathaniel Robinson and David Wingate and Nancy Fulda},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2020}
}

Berkeley Andrus and Nancy Fulda, Immersive Gameplay via Improved Natural Language Understanding, Foundations of Digital Games Conference 2020.

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@inproceedings{andrus2020immersive,
title={Immersive Gameplay via Improved Natural Language Understanding},
author={Andrus, Berkeley and Fulda, Nancy},
booktitle={Foundations of Digital Games 2020},
year={2020}
}

Orion Weller, Nancy Fulda and Kevin Seppi, Can Humor Prediction Datasets be used for Humor Generation? Humorous Headline Generation via Style Transfer, Proceedings of the Second ACL Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, July 2020.

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@inproceedings{weller2020can,
title={Can Humor Prediction Datasets be used for Humor Generation? Humorous Headline Generation via Style Transfer},
author={Weller, Orion and Fulda, Nancy and Seppi, Kevin},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second ACL Workshop on Figurative Language Processing},
pages={186–191},
year={2020}
}

Nancy Fulda, Rethinking our Assumptions about Language Model Evaluation. In: Arai K., Kapoor S., Bhatia R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1229. Springer, 2020.

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@inproceedings{fulda2020rethinking,
title={Rethinking our Assumptions about Language Model Evaluation},
author={Fulda, Nancy},
booktitle={Intelligent Computing, SAI 2020},
publisher={Springer Nature, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
volume={1229},
year={2020}
}

Will Pearce, Nick Landers and Nancy Fulda, Machine Learning for Offensive Security: Sandbox Classification Using Decision Trees and Artificial Neural Networks. In: Arai K., Kapoor S., Bhatia R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1228. Springer, 2020.

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@inproceedings{pearce2020security,
title={Machine Learning for Offensive Security: Sandbox Classification Using Decision Trees and Artificial Neural Networks},
author={Pearce, Will and Landers, Nick and Fulda, Nancy},
booktitle={Intelligent Computing, SAI 2020},
publisher={Springer Nature, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
volume={1229},
year={2020}
}

Will Myers, Tyler Etchart and Nancy Fulda, Conversational Scaffolding: An Analogy-Based Approach to Response Prioritization in Open-Domain Dialogs, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), February 2020.

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@inproceedings{myers2020conversational,
title={Conversational Scaffolding: An Analogy-Based Approach to Response Prioritization in Open-Domain Dialogs},
author={Myers, Will and Etchart, Tyler and Fulda, Nancy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART)},
year={2020}
}

Nancy Fulda, You Are What You Read: The Effect of Corpus and Training Task on Semantic Absorption in Recurrent Neural Architectures, Proceedings of the 18th World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI), January 2020.

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@inproceedings{fulda2020read,
title={You Are What You Read: The Effect of Corpus and Training Task on Semantic Absorption in Recurrent Neural Architectures},
author={Fulda, Nancy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI)},
year={2020}
}

Nancy Fulda, Ben Murdoch and Daniel Ricks, Getting it Right the Fourth Time: Goal-driven Behavior Using Vector Space Models, Proceedings of the 18th World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics, January 2020.

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@inproceedings{fulda2020models,
title={Getting it Right the Fourth Time: Goal-driven Behavior Using Vector Space Models},
author={Fulda, Nancy and Murdoch, Ben and Ricks, Daniel},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI)},
year={2020}
}

Previous Publications from Lab Members in Connection with the Perception, Control, Cognition Lab

Nancy Fulda, Tyler Etchart, William Myers, Daniel Ricks, Zachary Brown, Joseph Szendre, Ben Murdoch, Andrew Carr and David Wingate, BYU-EVE: Mixed Initiative Dialog via Structured Knowledge Graph Traversal and Conversational Scaffolding, Amazon Alexa Prize Proceedings, November 2018.

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@inproceedings{Fulda2018AlexaPrize,
title={BYU-EVE: Mixed Initiative Dialog via Structured Knowledge Graph Traversal and Conversational Scaffolding},
author={Nancy Fulda and Tyler Etchart and William Myers and Daniel Ricks and Zachary Brown and Joseph Szendre and Ben Murdoch and Andrew Carr and David Wingate},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize},
year={2018}
}

Nancy Fulda, Daniel Ricks, Benjamin Murdoch, and David Wingate, Threat, Explore, Barter, Puzzle: A Semantically-Informed Algorithm for Extracting Interaction Modes, AAAI Workshop on Knowledge Extraction from Games, 2018.

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@inproceedings{Fulda2018KEG,
title={Threat, Explore, Barter, Puzzle: A Semantically-Informed Algorithm for Extracting Interaction Modes},
author={Fulda, Nancy and Ricks, Daniel and Murdoch, Ben and Wingate, David},
booktitle={AAAI Workshop on Knowledge Extraction from Games},
year={2018}
}

Nancy Fulda, Ben Murdoch, Daniel Ricks, David Wingate, Informing Action Primitives through Free-Form Text, NIPS Workshop on Visually Grounded Interaction and Language, 2017.

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@inproceedings{Fulda2017NIPS,
title={Informing Action Primitives through Free-Form Text},
author={Fulda, Nancy and Murdoch, Ben and Ricks, Daniel and Wingate, David},
booktitle={NIPS Workshop on Visually Grounded Interaction and Language},
year={2017}
}

Nancy Fulda, Nathan Tibbets, Zachary Brown, and David Wingate, Harvesting Common-Sense Navigational Knowledge for Robotics from Uncurated Text Corpora, 1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2017.

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@inproceedings{Fulda2017CoRL,
title={Harvesting Common-Sense Navigational Knowledge for Robotics from Uncurated Text Corpora},
author={Fulda, Nancy and Tibbets, Nathan and Brown, Zachary and Wingate, David},
booktitle={1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
year={2017}
}

Nancy Fulda, Daniel Ricks, Ben Murdoch, and David Wingate, What Can You do with a Rock? Affordance Extraction via Word Embeddings, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017.

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@inproceedings{Fulda2017rock,
title={What Can You do with a Rock? Affordance Extraction via Word Embeddings},
author={Fulda, Nancy and Ricks, Daniel and Murdoch, Ben and Wingate, David},
booktitle={International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year={2017}
}