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Publications are listed for the following years: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2003.

2009

Matt Huenerfauth, Lijun Feng, Noemie Elhadad. (in press, 2009). “Comparing Evaluation Techniques for Text Readability Software for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities.” In Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2009), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
[Available on ACM Digital Library.]

Pengfei Lu, Matt Huenerfauth. (in press, 2009). “Accessible Motion-Capture Glove Calibration Protocol for Recording Sign Language Data from Deaf Subjects.” In Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2009), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
[Available on ACM Digital Library.]

Matt Huenerfauth. 2009. “Improving Spatial Reference in American Sign Language Animation through Data Collection from Native ASL Signers.” International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI). San Diego, CA. July 2009. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal Access in HCI, Part III, HCII 2009, LNCS 5616, pp. 530–539, 2009. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
[Adobe PDF]

Matt Huenerfauth. 2009. “A Linguistically Motivated Model for Speed and Pausing in Animations of American Sign Language.” ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (journal). Volume 2, Number 2, Article 9.
[Available on ACM Digital Library.]

Lijun Feng, Noemie Elhadad, Matt Huenerfauth. 2009. “Cognitively Motivated Features for Readability Assessment,” Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens, Greece.
[Available on the ACL Anthology.] [Adobe PDF]

Matt Huenerfauth and Vicki L. Hanson.  2009.  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.
[Available on Amazon.]

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.
[Available on ACM Digital Library.] [Adobe PDF]

Matt Huenerfauth. 2008. "Spatial, Temporal, and Semantic Models for American Sign Language Generation: Implications for Gesture Generation." International Journal of Semantic Computing. Volume 2, Number 1.
[Available from World Scientific.] [Direct Link to Article]

Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhou, Erdan Gu and Jan Allbeck. 2008. "Evaluation of American Sign Language Generation by Native ASL Signers." ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (journal). Volume 1, Number 1, Article 3.
[Available on ACM Digital Library.]

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 (journal), 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.] [Adobe PDF]

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 (journal), 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] [Adobe PDF]

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]