Enhancing Quality and Controllability of Neural Natural Language Generation
Facebook Collaborative Research Agreement, 2019–2022
Collaborators: Huan Sun, Ashley Lewis, Xintong Li, Aleksandre Maskharashvili, Lingbo Mo, Symon Stevens-Guille
Using Automatically Generated Paraphrases and Discriminative ASR Training to Author Robust Question-Answering Dialogue Systems
NSF IIS – Robust Intelligence Grant, 2016–2021
Collaborators: Douglas Danforth, Eric Fosler-Lussier, William Schuler, Evan Jaffe, Lifeng Jin, David King, Adam Stiff
Closing the Loop: Inducing High-Precision Grammars for Generating Disambiguating Paraphrases
NSF IIS – Robust Intelligence Grant, 2013–2017
Collaborators: Manjuan Duan, David Howcroft; James Curran, James Constable
Virtual patients simulations to assess data-gathering and clinical reasoning
National Board of Medical Examiners, 2013–2015
Collaborators: Douglas Danforth, Eric Fosler-Lussier, William Schuler, Evan Jaffe
Monolingual Multiword Alignment and Grammar-Based Paraphrase Generation for Detecting Semantic Similarity and Evaluating MT
AFRL – Subcontract to BBN, 2012
Collaborators: Scott Martin, Dennis Mehay; Kapil Thadani
Exploratory Research on Acquiring and Adapting Sentence Planning Resources for Generating with Discourse CCG
NSF IIS – Robust Intelligence Grant, 2011–2014
Collaborators: Dominic Espinosa, David Howcroft, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar
Learning to Generate High Quality Paraphrases with a Broad Coverage Lexicalized Grammar
NSF IIS – Robust Intelligence Grant, 2008–2012
Collaborators: Steve Boxwell, Dominic Espinosa, Scott Martin, Dennis Mehay, Crystal Nakatsu, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar
Building Expressive Synthetic Voices for Conversational Systems
OSU Arts & Humanities Innovation Grant, 2007–2009
Collaborators: Chris Brew, Dominic Espinosa, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Kiwako Ito, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Shari Speer