Publications

• Jay Orten and Nancy Fulda. 2025.

  Improving Controlled Text Generation via Neuron-level Control Codes. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence – Volume 3: ICAART.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Nancy Fulda, Chaz Gundry, 

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

• 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.

• 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.

  Presentation

• 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.

  Presentation

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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

• 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.