This page contains three sections: Overview of Research, List of Publications, List of Other Presentations.
Overview
You can visit the website of the Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory (LATLab) for more information about my current research projects.
My research is in the areas of Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities, Natural Language Processing, Virtual Human Animation, and the Computational Linguistics of American Sign Language (ASL). In particular, I study how to design computer programs to translate from English text into onscreen animations of American Sign Language. This research will make more information and services available to the majority of Deaf Americans who face English literacy challenges. Machine translation technologies developed for ASL also have applications for the multimodal generation of other natural languages.
I am also interested in other intersections of the fields of Natural Language Processing and Assistive Technology. There are many exciting ways in which computational linguistic software can benefit people who have low literacy or language impairments.
A list of my publications and presentations is included below.
Papers and Publications
Publications are listed for the following years: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001.
2008
Matt Huenerfauth. 2008. "Evaluation of a Psycholinguistically Motivated
Timing Model for Animations of American Sign Language." The 10th
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
(ASSETS 2008), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
[Will be available on ACM Digital Library.]
Matt Huenerfauth. (accepted for publication, 2008). "Spatial, Temporal,
and Semantic Models for American Sign Language Generation: Implications for
Gesture Generation." International Journal of Semantic Computing.
[Will be available from World Scientific.]
Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhou, Erdan Gu and Jan Allbeck. (in press, 2008).
"Evaluation of American Sign Language Generation by Native ASL Signers."
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing.
[Will be available on ACM Digital Library.]
Matt Huenerfauth and Vicki L. Hanson. (in press, 2008). Sign Language
in the Interface: Access for Deaf Signers. To appear in C. Stephanidis (Ed.), The
Universal Access Handbook. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
[Will be available from LEA in July 2008.]
Matt Huenerfauth. (in press, 2008). "Representing American Sign Language
Classifier Predicates Using Spatially Parameterized Planning Templates." To appear
in M.T. Banich and D. Caccamise (eds), Generalization of Knowledge: Multidisciplinary
Perspectives. New York: Psychology Press.
[Will be available from Psychology Press.]
Matt Huenerfauth. 2008. Generating American Sign Language Animation:
Overcoming Misconceptions and Technical Challenges. Universal Access in the Information Society, Volume 6, Number 4.
[Available on Springerlink.]
2007
Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhou, Erdan Gu and Jan Allbeck. 2007. Evaluating
American Sign Language Generation Through the Participation of Native ASL Signers.
Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS-2007.
Tempe, Arizona, USA. October 2007.
Conference Award: ACM SIGACCESS Best Technical Paper Award, 2007.
[Available on ACM Digital Library.]
Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhou, Erdan Gu and Jan Allbeck. 2007. Design and
Evaluation of an American Sign Language Generator. 45th Annual Meeting of
the Association for Computational Linguistics. Workshop on Embodied Language
Processing. Prague, Czech Republic. June 2007.
[Available on the ACL Anthology.]
2006
Matt Huenerfauth. 2006. Representing Coordination and Non-Coordination
in American Sign Language Animations. Behaviour & Information Technology,
Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 285-295.
[Available from
Taylor & Francis]
Matt Huenerfauth. 2006. Generating American Sign Language Classifier
Predicates For English-To-ASL Machine Translation. Doctoral Dissertation,
Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania.
[Adobe Acrobat PDF]
2005
Matt Huenerfauth. 2005. Representing Coordination and Non-Coordination
in an American Sign Language Animation. The 7th International ACM
SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2005),
Baltimore, MD, USA.
Conference Award: ACM SIGACCESS Best Technical Paper Award, 2005.
[Available on ACM
Digital Library]
Matt Huenerfauth. 2005. American Sign Language Spatial Representations
for an Accessible User-Interface. 3rd International Conference on
Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
[Adobe
Acrobat PDF]
Matt Huenerfauth. 2005. American Sign Language Generation: Multimodal
NLG with Multiple Linguistic Channels. Student Research Workshop, The 43rd
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Ann
Arbor, MI, USA.
[Available from the ACL Anthology]
Matt Huenerfauth. 2005. American Sign Language Natural Language
Generation and Machine Translation. ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and
Computing. New York: ACM Press. Issue 81 (January 2005).
[Available
on ACM Digital Library]
2004
Matt Huenerfauth. 2004. Spatial and Planning Models of ASL Classifier
Predicates for Machine Translation. The 10th International Conference on
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2004).
Baltimore, MD, USA.
[Adobe
Acrobat PDF]
Matt Huenerfauth. 2004. American Sign Language Natural Language
Generation and Machine Translation. The 6th International ACM SIGACCESS
Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2004), Doctoral
Consortium Presentation and Poster Session. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Conference Award: Best Doctoral Candidate, Delivered Closing Plenary
Address
Abstract: [Adobe Acrobat PDF]
Matt Huenerfauth. 2004. Spatial Representation of Classifier Predicates
for Machine Translation into American Sign Language. Workshop on the
Representation and Processing of Signed Languages, 4th International
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon,
Portugal.
[Adobe
Acrobat PDF]
Matt Huenerfauth. 2004. A Multi-Path Architecture for Machine
Translation of English Text into American Sign Language Animation. In the
proceedings of the Student Workshop at the Human Language Technology
conference / North American chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics annual meeting (HLT-NAACL 2004), Boston, MA, USA.
[Available from the ACL Anthology]
2003
Matt Huenerfauth. 2003. A Survey and Critique of American Sign Language
Natural Language Generation and Machine Translation Systems. Technical
Report MS-CIS-03-32, Computer and Information Science, University of
Pennsylvania.
[Adobe
Acrobat PDF]
2002
Matt Huenerfauth. 2002. Design Approaches for Developing
User-Interfaces Accessible to Illiterate Users. Intelligent and
Situation-Aware Media and Presentations Workshop. American Association of
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2002) Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
[Adobe
Acrobat PDF]
Matt Huenerfauth. 2002. Developing Design Recommendations for Computer
Interfaces Accessible to Illiterate Users. Thesis. Master of Science (MSc).
Department of Computer Science. National University of Ireland: University
College Dublin. (Páipéar. Máistir Eolaíochta (MSc). Roinn na
Ríomheolaíochta. Ollscoile na hÉireann: An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha
Cliath.)
[Adobe
Acrobat PDF]
2001
Matt Huenerfauth. 2001. Development of PeTaLS: Personality Tagged Logical Statistical Generator. Thesis. Master of Science (MS). Computer and Information Sciences. University of Delaware.
Presentations and Guest Lectures
(Does not include presentations given at conferences listed above.)
Matt Huenerfauth. March 2008. ASL Generation and Evaluation of ASL Systems. Guest Lectures, Computer Science 84010, Computational Linguistics, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science and Graduate Program in Linguistics, The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, NY, USA.
Matt Huenerfauth. March 2008. Linguistic and Assistive Technology for Users with Disabilities. Guest Lecture, Computer Science 87100, Research at CUNY, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science, The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Matt Huenerfauth. November 2006. Assistive Technology for the Deaf: American Sign Language Machine Translation. Guest Lecture, Computer Science 87100, Research at CUNY, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science, The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Matt Huenerfauth. October 2006. Assistive Technology for the Deaf: American Sign Language Machine Translation. Colloquium, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science, The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Matt Huenerfauth. August 2006. Representing American Sign Language Classifier Predicates Using Spatially Parameterized Planning Templates. Science of Learning Symposium on Generalization of Knowledge, The Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
Matt Huenerfauth. April 2006. Assistive Technology for the Deaf: American Sign Language Machine Translation. Seminar, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology and the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Matt Huenerfauth. April 2006. Assistive Technology for the Deaf: American Sign Language Machine Translation. Seminar, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Matt Huenerfauth. April 2005. Computational Linguistic Models of American Sign Language Classifier Predicates. The Second Symposium of the Penn Working Group in Language, University of Pennsylvania.
Matt Huenerfauth. March 2005. American Sign Language Natural
Language Generation and Machine Translation. Poster Session, Graduate
Research Symposium, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University
of Pennsylvania.
[POSTER:
Adobe Acrobat PDF]
Matt Huenerfauth. January 2005. Computers Assisting Deaf Communication. (A non-technical presentation on assistive technology and ASL machine translation.) Presented at meeting of the Lionesses Club of Springfield, PA. (A community organization committed to fund-raising for people with disabilities.)
Matt Huenerfauth. November 2004. Generation Models for American Sign Language Classifier Predicates. Presentation to the Computational Linguistics Lunch (CLUNCH).
Matt Huenerfauth. April 2004. Classifier Predicate Representations for an English to American Sign Language Machine Translation System. Penn Working Group in Language, First Annual Symposium, University of Pennsylvania.
Matt Huenerfauth. March 2004. Building an English to American Sign Language Translation System. Presentation for CSE-391: "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence," University of Pennsylvania.
Matt Huenerfauth. January 2004. Motivating the Design of a Machine
Translation System from English to American Sign Language. Penn
Engineering Research Symposium.
Award: Best Graduate Student Presentation
Matt Huenerfauth. November 2003. Handling Spatially Complex English-to-ASL Machine Translation with a Multi-Path Pyramidal Architecture. Presentation to the Computational Linguistics Lunch (CLUNCH).
Matt Huenerfauth. September 2003. A Survey and Critique of American Sign Language Natural Language Generation and Machine Translation Systems. Presentation for Written Preliminary Exam II, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Matt Huenerfauth. August 2003. Computers Assisting Deaf Communication. (A non-technical presentation on assistive technology and ASL machine translation.) Presented at meeting of the Lions Club of Springfield, PA. (A community organization committed to fund-raising for people with disabilities.)
Matt Huenerfauth. July 2003. Incorporating Technology from the Human Modeling and Simulation Lab into an English-to-ASL machine translation system at University of Pennsylvania.