PUBLICATIONS

Natural Language Processing

Cavalli-Sforza V. and Soudi A., "Enhancements to a Morphological Generator to Capture Arabic Morphology," 8th International Symposium on Social Communication, January 21-24, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. (.pdf)

Soudi, A., Cavalli-Sforza, V., & Jamari, A., "A Prototype English-to-Arabic Interlingua-based MT System," Proceedings of the Workshop on Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation - Status and Prospects, 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Jun 1, 2002, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. (.pdf)

Soudi, A., Cavalli-Sforza, V., & Jamari, A., "The Arabic Noun System Generation," The Processing of Arabic, Apr 17-20, 2002, La Manouba, Tunisia. Cavalli-Sforza, V. "Towards a Tutoring Environment with Speech Recognition for Learning to Read Modern Standard Arabic," presented at the InSTIL 2002 workshop, Mar 26-27, 2002, Davis, CA. (.pdf)

Soudi, A., Cavalli-Sforza, V., & Jamari, A., "A Computational Lexeme-Based Treatment of Arabic Morphology," Proceedings of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2001), Jul 6, 2001, Toulouse, France. (.pdf)

Cavalli-Sforza, V., Czuba, K., Mitamura, T., and Nyberg, E., "Challenges in Adapting an Interlingua for Bidirectional English-Italian Translation," Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2000), Cuernavaca, Mexico, Oct 11-14, 2000. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1934. Springer, Berlin, 2000, 169-178. (.pdf)

Cavalli-Sforza, V., Soudi, A., & Mitamura, T., "Arabic Morphology Generation Using a Concatenative Strategy," Proceedings of the 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2000), Seattle, Apr-May, 2000, 86-93. (.pdf)

Intelligent Systems & Computer Science

Cavalli-Sforza, V., "The Impact of Representation on Coaching Argument Analysis," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2000), Montreal, Canada, June 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1839. Springer, Berlin, 2000, 413-422. (.pdf)

Cavalli-Sforza, V., "Constructed vs. Received Representations for Scientific Argument: Implications for Learning and Coaching," Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, B.C., August 1999. (.pdf)

Cavalli-Sforza, V., "Constructed vs. Received Graphical Representations For Learning About Scientific Controversy: Implications For Learning And Coaching," unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, Intelligent Systems Program, April 1998.

Cavalli-Sforza, V., & Lesgold, A. M., "Intelligent Learning By Doing Tools for Technical and Dialectical Knowledge," S. Bagnara, C. Zucchermaglio, S. Stucky (Eds.), Organizational Learning and Technological Change, Springer-Verlag (NATO ASI Series), 1995.

Cavalli-Sforza, V., Weiner, A.W., & Lesgold, A.M., "Software Support for Students Engaging in Scientific Activity and Scientific Controversy," Science Education 78(6), November 1994, 577-599.

Cavalli-Sforza, V., & Suthers, D. D., "Belvedere: An Environment for Practicing Scientific Argumentation," Notes of the AAAI Workshop on Computational Dialectics, Seattle, WA, 1994.

Cavalli-Sforza, V., Moore, J. D., Suthers, D. D., "Helping Students Articulate and Criticize Scientific Explanations," Proceedings of the World Conference on AI and Education (AIED-93), Edinburgh, Scotland, August 23-27, 1993, 113-120.

Suthers, D. D., & Cavalli-Sforza, V., "Issues in graphical media for evaluating and debating scientific theories," in R. Cox, M. Petre, P. Brna, & J. Lee, Proceedings of the Workshop on Graphical Representations, Reasoning, and Communication. World Conference on AI and Education (AIED-93), Edinburgh, Scotland, August 23-27, 1993.

Cavalli-Sforza, V., Lesgold, A.M., & Weiner, A.W., "Strategies for Contributing to Collaborative Arguments," Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Bloomington, IN, 1992, 755-760.

Cavalli-Sforza, V., Gabrys, G., Lesgold, A.M., & Weiner, A.W., "Engaging Students in Scientific Activity and Scientific Controversy," Workshop Notes of the AAAI 1992 Workshop Program: Communicating Scientific & Technical Knowledge, San Jose, CA, 99-106.

Cavalli-Sforza, V., and Moore, J. D., "Collaborating on Arguments and Explanations," Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Symposium: Producing Cooperative Explanations, Stanford, CA, March 25-27, 1992.

Cavalli-Sforza, V., "An Environment for Tutoring Argumentation Skills," Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Symposium: Argumentation and Belief, Stanford, CA, March 26-28, 1991, 71-84.

Bill Kalsow and Violetta Cavalli-Sforza. "Pickles: An Implementation of Persistent Data Structures." Research Report 29, Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center, November, 1988.

Civil Engineering

Cavalli-Sforza, V., and Ortolano, L., "Delphi Forecasts of Land Use: Transportation Interactions," Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, Vol.110, No. 3, May 1984, 324-339.

Cavalli-Sforza, V., et al., Transit Facilities and Land Use: An Application of the Delphi Method, Technical Report IPM-15, Department of Civil Engineering, Program in Infrastructure Planning and Management, January 1982.

Cavalli-Sforza, V., Two chapters on statistical methods in: Dajani, J. S., and Ortolano, L. (eds.), Methods of Forecasting the Reciprocal Impacts of Infrastructure Development and Land Use, Technical Report IPM-11, Department of Civil Engineering, Program in Infrastructure Planning and Management, January 1982.