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Citations
5845
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10272
National Ranking
4312

Overview

Joyce Y. Chai is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, social psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and building and construction.

Their contributions include a significant body of work in topics such as topic modeling, multimodal machine learning applications, natural language processing techniques, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, speech and dialogue systems, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI).

Recent notable publications include:

  • Natural language instructions for intuitive human interaction with robotic assistants in field construction work, 2024, Automation in Construction
  • Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research, 2021, Computer Speech & Language
  • CX-ToM: Counterfactual explanations with theory-of-mind for enhancing human trust in image recognition models, 2021, iScience
  • MindCraft: Theory of Mind Modeling for Situated Dialogue in Collaborative Tasks, 2021, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Learning to Mediate Disparities Towards Pragmatic Communication, 2022, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Joyce Y. Chai has frequently collaborated with several researchers throughout their career. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Ziqiao Ma
  • Shane Storks
  • Parisa Kordjamshidi
  • Yichi Zhang
  • Keunwoo Peter Yu

Their works have been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer Speech & Language
  • iScience
  • Automation in Construction
  • Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Best Publications

  • Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

    Rada Mihalcea;Joyce Chai;Anoop Sarkar

  • System, method and program product for interactive natural dialog

    Joyce Yue Chai;Sunil Subramanyam Govindappa;Nandakishore Kambhatla;Tetsunosuke Fujisaki

  • An automatic weighting scheme for collaborative filtering

    Rong Jin;Joyce Y. Chai;Luo Si

  • Experience Grounds Language

    Yonatan Bisk;Ari Holtzman;Jesse Thomason;Jacob Andreas

  • Effective automatic image annotation via a coherent language model and active learning

    Rong Jin;Joyce Y. Chai;Luo Si

  • Comparative evaluation of a natural language dialog based system and a menu driven system for information access: a case study

    Joyce Chai;Jimmy Lin;Wlodek Zadrozny;Yiming Ye

  • Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates

    Matthew Gerber;Joyce Chai

  • A probabilistic approach to reference resolution in multimodal user interfaces

    Joyce Y. Chai;Pengyu Hong;Michelle X. Zhou

  • Back to the Blocks World: Learning New Actions through Situated Human-Robot Dialogue

    Lanbo She;Shaohua Yang;Yu Cheng;Yunyi Jia

  • Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research

    Matthew Marge;Carol Y. Espy-Wilson;Nigel G. Ward;Abeer Alwan

  • Natural language dialogue for personalized interaction

    Wlodek Zadrozny;M. Budzikowska;J. Chai;N. Kambhatla

  • Collaborative effort towards common ground in situated human-robot dialogue

    Joyce Y. Chai;Lanbo She;Rui Fang;Spencer Ottarson

  • Natural Language Assistant: A Dialog System for Online Product Recommendation

    Joyce Yue Chai;Veronika Horvath;Nicolas Nicolov;Margo Stys

  • Discourse Structure for Context Question Answering

    Joyce Y. Chai;Rong Jin

  • Language to Action: Towards Interactive Task Learning with Physical Agents.

    Joyce Y. Chai;Qiaozi Gao;Lanbo She;Shaohua Yang

  • Embodied Collaborative Referring Expression Generation in Situated Human-Robot Interaction

    Rui Fang;Malcolm Doering;Joyce Y. Chai

  • What's in a gaze?: the role of eye-gaze in reference resolution in multimodal conversational interfaces

    Zahar Prasov;Joyce Y. Chai

  • Recent Advances in Natural Language Inference: A Survey of Benchmarks, Resources, and Approaches

    Shane Storks;Qiaozi Gao;Joyce Y. Chai

  • Semantic role labeling of implicit arguments for nominal predicates

    Matthew Gerber;Joyce Chai

  • Teaching Robots New Actions through Natural Language Instructions

    Lanbo She;Yu Cheng;Joyce Y. Chai;Yunyi Jia

  • Hierarchical Task Learning from Language Instructions with Unified Transformers and Self-Monitoring

    Yichi Zhang;Joyce Chai

  • Language to Action: Towards Interactive Task Learning with Physical Agents

    Joyce Y. Chai

Frequent Co-Authors

Rong Jin
Rong Jin Alibaba Group (China)
Song-Chun Zhu
Song-Chun Zhu Peking University
Michelle X. Zhou
Michelle X. Zhou IBM (United States)
Sinisa Todorovic
Sinisa Todorovic Oregon State University
Elisabeth André
Elisabeth André University of Augsburg
Tsvi Kuflik
Tsvi Kuflik University of Haifa
Luo Si
Luo Si Alibaba Group (China)
Katrin Kirchhoff
Katrin Kirchhoff Amazon (United States)
Mirella Lapata
Mirella Lapata University of Edinburgh
David Traum
David Traum University of Southern California

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