Contact Information
Courses Taught | Research Interests | Research Projects | Professional Service | Short Biography |
Fall 2010 |
CSC 540 User Inteface Dev |
CSC6 640 Software Engineering |
Research |
Spring 2010 |
CSC 340 Software Engineering |
CSC 529 Artificial Intelligence |
Research |
Fall 2009 |
CSC 540 User Interface Dev. |
CSC 640 Software Engineering |
Research |
Spring 2009 |
CSC340w Software Engineering |
CSC529 Artificial Intelligence |
Research |
Fall 2008 |
CSC 540 User Interface Dev |
Acting Dir. Graduate Studies |
Research |
Spring 2008 |
CSC340w
Software Engineering |
CSC529 Artificial
Intelligence |
Research |
Fall 2007 |
CSC540 User Interface
Dev. |
CSC640
Software Eng. (grad) |
Research |
Fall 2006-Spring2007 |
on research assignment |
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Spring 2006 |
CSC340w
Software Engineering |
CSC529
(Artificial Intelligence) |
Research |
Fall 2005 |
CSC340w
Software Engineering (undergrad) |
CSC640
Software Engineering (grad) |
Masters Projects/Theses |
Spring 2005 | CSC340w Software Engineering (undergrad) | CSC529 & CSC711 (Artificial Intelligence) | Masters Projects/Theses, Undergraduate Research Project as Directed Study |
Fall 2004 | CSC640 Software Engineering | course release for funded research | Masters Projects/Theses, Directed Study in User Interfaces, Undergraduate Research Project |
Spring 2004 | CSC340w Software Engineering (undergrad) | CSC529 Artificial Intelligence | Masters Projects/Theses |
Fall 2003 | CSC540 User Interface Development | CSC640 Software Engineering | CSC593-03 Directed Study in Usability Evaluation, Masters Projects |
Spring 2003 | CSC340w Software Engineering | CSC529 Artificial Intelligence | Masters Projects |
Fall 2002 | CSC540 User Interface Development | course release for funded research | CSC593 Directed Study in Natural Language Technologies |
Spring 2002 | CSC340w Software Engineering | CSC589-01 AI and Interactive Narrative | 2001-2002 Ashby Dialogue on AI and the Narrative Arts |
Fall 2001 | CSC540 User Interface Development | CSC640 Software Engineering | 2001-2002 Ashby Dialogue on AI and the Narrative Arts |
Spring 2001 | CSC339 Concepts of Programming Languages | CSC340w Software Engineering | CSC693 Directed Study in HCI |
Fall 2000 | CSC130 Intro to Comp Sci | CSC640 Software Engineering | CSC593 Virtual Worlds |
Spring 2000 | CSC339 | CSC340w | CSC 589 Human-Computer Interaction |
Fall 1999 | CSC130 | CSC640 |
Co-chair |
AAAI Spring 2011
Symposium on AI and Health Communication |
Co-chair |
CMNA 2010 |
Co-chair |
AAAI Fall
2009 Symposium on Virtual Health Interaction |
Program Commitee |
CMNA 2006 (6th Workshop on Computational
Models of Natural Argument) |
Co-chair |
AAAI Spring 2006
Symposium on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare (ACH) |
Program Committee | CMNA 2004 (4th Workshop on Computer Models of Natural Argument) |
Program Committee | INLG 2004 (3rd Int. Conf. on Natural Language Generation) |
Co-chair | FLAIRS 2004 (Florida AI Research Symposium) Special Track on User Modeling and HCI Approaches in Natural Language Generation |
Program Committee | CMNA 2002 (2nd Workshop on Computer Models of Natural Argument) |
Program Committee | SIGDIAL 2002 (Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue of the Association for Computational Linguistics) |
Area Chair | First Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, 2000 |
Program Committee | AAAI Fall 2000 Symposium on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications |
Co-chair | AAAI Spring 1998 Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing |
Co-chair | AAAI Spring 1996 Symposium on Computational Implicature |
1999 - present | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences; promoted to Associate Prof., Dept. of Computer Science, UNCG. |
1998-1999 | System Scientist (AutoBrief project), Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. |
1996-1998 | Visiting Scientist (AutoBrief project) Robotics Institute , CMU and Visiting Instructor (Computational Linguistics), Phil. Dept., CMU. |
1994-1996 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science Department, CMU. (NL-Soar project) |
1995 | Ph.D. Computer Science. University of Delaware. Thesis in natural language processing. (Working part-time and summers with an English-to-SQL-query group at SAS Institute, Cary, NC.) |
1987 | M.S. Computer Science. University of Pennsylvania. (Summers with English-to-SQL-query group at SAS Institute, Cary, NC.) |
1985-1986 | Instructor, Computer Science Department, NCSU. |
1980-1985 | Software contributor. Data General Corporation, RTP, NC. (US Patent 04829427 for SQL query optimizer) |
1980 | M.A. Linguistics. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |