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. 

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@conference{icaart25,
author={Jay Orten and Nancy Fulda},
title={Improving Controlled Text Generation via Neuron-Level Control Codes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART},
year={2025},
pages={574-581},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013160100003890},
isbn={978-989-758-737-5},
issn={2184-433X},
}

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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 = {Bangyu Wang and Nancy Fulda and Zhengyang Huang and Grant G. Schultz and Gregory S. Macfarlane, Joseph Arnesen and Adnan Khayyat},
journal = {Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board},
year = {2024},
volume = {2678},
number = {12},
pages = {1736--1750},
doi = {10.1177/03611981241252829},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981241252829}
}

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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{10492988,
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 T. and Warnick, Karl F. and Chang, Mau-Chung Frank and Kuan, Yen-Cheng and Chiang, Shiuh-Hua Wood},
journal={IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters},
title={A Subthreshold Time-Domain Analog Spiking Neuron With PLL-Based Leak Circuit and Capacitive DAC Synapse},
year={2024},
volume={7},
number={},
pages={143-146},
keywords={Neurons;Voltage-controlled oscillators;Time-domain analysis;Synapses;Capacitors;Phase frequency detectors;Phase locked loops;Analog neuron;capacitive digital-to-analog converter (CDAC);phase-locked loop (PLL);spiking neuron;time-domain circuit;voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)},
doi={10.1109/LSSC.2024.3384762}}

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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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 @article{weng2024identifying,
  author    = {Tzu-Yu Weng and Ananya Gupta and Bart Knijnenburg and Mainack Mondal and Nancy Fulda and Xinru Page},
  title     = {Identifying Tensions that Arise in Cross-cultural Online Communication},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshops at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2024)},
  series    = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  volume    = {3660},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS},
  url       = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3660/paper23.pdf}
}

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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{mondal2023two,
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 Ghosh, Isha and Li, Yao and Fulda, Nancy and Page, Xinru},
title = {A Tale of Two Cultures: Comparing Interpersonal Information Disclosure Norms on Twitter},
journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction},
volume = {7},
number = {CSCW2},
pages = {1--40},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1145/3610045},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}
}

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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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@inproceedings{ashby2023personalized,
author = {Ashby, Trevor and Webb, Braden K and Knapp, Gregory and Searle, Jackson and Fulda, Nancy},
title = {Personalized Quest and Dialogue Generation in Role-Playing Games: A Knowledge Graph- and Language Model-based Approach},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)},
year = {2023},
location = {Hamburg, Germany},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
pages = {1-20},
doi = {10.1145/3544548.3581441},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581441}
}

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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{Argyle_Busby_Fulda_Gubler_Rytting_Wingate_2023, 
title={Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples},
volume={31},
DOI={10.1017/pan.2023.2},
number={3},
journal={Political Analysis},
author={Argyle, Lisa P. and Busby, Ethan C. and Fulda, Nancy and Gubler, Joshua R. and Rytting, Christopher and Wingate, David},
year={2023},
pages={337–351}}

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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{jlpea12040059,
AUTHOR = {Barton, Taylor and Yu, Hao and Rogers, Kyle and Fulda, Nancy and Chiang, Shiuh-hua Wood and Yorgason, Jordan and Warnick, Karl F.},
TITLE = {Towards Low-Power Machine Learning Architectures Inspired by Brain Neuromodulatory Signalling},
JOURNAL = {Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications},
VOLUME = {12},
YEAR = {2022},
NUMBER = {4},
ARTICLE-NUMBER = {59},
URL = {https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/12/4/59},
ISSN = {2079-9268},
DOI = {10.3390/jlpea12040059}
}

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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{robinson-etal-2022-task,
    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",
    editor = "Derczynski, Leon",
    journal = "Northern European Journal of Language Technology",
    volume = "8",
    year = "2022",
    address = {Link{\"o}ping, Sweden},
    publisher = {Link{\"o}ping University Electronic Press},
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.nejlt-1.2/",
    doi = "10.3384/nejlt.2000-1533.2022.4438"
}

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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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@inproceedings{sorensen-etal-2022-information,
    title = "An Information-theoretic Approach to Prompt Engineering Without Ground Truth Labels",
    author = "Sorensen, Taylor  and
      Robinson, Joshua  and
      Rytting, Christopher  and
      Shaw, Alexander  and
      Rogers, Kyle  and
      Delorey, Alexia  and
      Khalil, Mahmoud  and
      Fulda, Nancy  and
      Wingate, David",
    editor = "Muresan, Smaranda  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Villavicencio, Aline",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = may,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Dublin, Ireland",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.60/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.60",
    pages = "819--862"
}

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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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@inproceedings{andrus2022datadriven,
author = {Andrus, Berkeley and Fulda, Nancy},
title = {A Data-Driven Architecture for Social Behavior in Creator Networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2022)},
year = {2022},
location = {Bolzano, Italy},
publisher = {Association for Computational Creativity},
url = {https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc22/papers/ICCC-2022_paper_6.pdf}
}

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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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@inproceedings{robinson-etal-2022-data,
    title = "Data-adaptive Transfer Learning for Translation: A Case Study in {H}aitian and Jamaican",
    author = "Robinson, Nathaniel  and
      Hogan, Cameron  and
      Fulda, Nancy  and
      Mortensen, David R.",
    editor = "Ojha, Atul Kr.  and
      Liu, Chao-Hong  and
      Vylomova, Ekaterina  and
      Abbott, Jade  and
      Washington, Jonathan  and
      Oco, Nathaniel  and
      Pirinen, Tommi A  and
      Malykh, Valentin  and
      Logacheva, Varvara  and
      Zhao, Xiaobing",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2022)",
    month = oct,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.loresmt-1.5/",
    pages = "35--42"
}

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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{fulda2022conversational,
author = {Fulda, Nancy and Gundry, Chaz},
title = {Conversational AI as Improvisational Co-Creation -- A Dialogic Perspective},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2022)},
year = {2022},
location = {Bolzano, Italy},
publisher = {Association for Computational Creativity},
url = {https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc22/papers/ICCC-2022_paper_153.pdf}
}

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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},
url={https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/21286},
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},
month={Jun.},
pages={10436-10444} }

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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" }

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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}
}

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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}
}

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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}
}

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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}
}

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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} }

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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}
}

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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}
}

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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}
}

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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}
}

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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}
}

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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}
}

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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}
}

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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}
}

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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}
}

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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}
}

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