| 2026 | ACL | SafetyALFRED: Evaluating Safety-Conscious Planning of Vision Language Models. | Josue Torres-Fonseca, Naihao Deng, Yinpei Dai, Shane Storks, Yichi Zhang, Rada Mihalcea, Casey Kennington, Joyce Chai |
| 2026 | SIGdial | Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy Optimization. | Anna Manaseryan, Casey Kennington |
| 2025 | HAI | Retico: A Framework for Robot/IVA-ready Spoken Dialogue. | Casey Kennington, Catherine Henry |
| 2025 | IROS | Recognizing and Generating Novel Emotional Behaviors on Two Robotic Platforms. | Rista Baral, Bethany Grenz, Casey Kennington |
| 2025 | SIGdial | Learning to Speak Like a Child: Reinforcing and Evaluating a Child-level Generative Language Model. | Enoch Levandovsky, Anna Manaseryan, Casey Kennington |
| 2025 | SIGdial | rrSDS 2.0: Incremental, Modular, Distributed, Multimodal Spoken Dialogue with Robotic Platforms. | Anna Manaseryan, Porter Rigby, Brooke Matthews, Catherine Henry, Josue Torres-Fonseca, Ryan Whetten, Enoch Levandovsky, Casey Kennington |
| 2024 | COLING | Conceptual Pacts for Reference Resolution Using Small, Dynamically Constructed Language Models: A Study in Puzzle Building Dialogues. | Julian Hough, Sina Zarrie, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen, Massimo Poesio |
| 2024 | COLING | Incorporating Word-level Phonemic Decoding into Readability Assessment. | Christine Pinney, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails |
| 2024 | FIE | A Systematic Evaluation of Code-generating Chatbots for Use in Undergraduate Computer Science Education. | Adam J. Torek, Elijah Sorensen, Natalie Hahle, Casey Kennington |
| 2023 | CoNLL | Exploring Transformers as Compact, Data-efficient Language Models. | Clayton Fields, Casey Kennington |
| 2023 | IUI | Children and Information Access: Fostering a Sense of Belonging 254-257. | Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails |
| 2022 | ECIR | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Why Using the "Right" Readability Formula in Children's Web Search Matters. | Garrett Allen, Ashlee Milton, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2022 | HCI | Incremental Unit Networks for Distributed, Symbolic Multimodal Processing and Representation. | Mir Tahsin Imtiaz, Casey Kennington |
| 2022 | LREC | HADREB: Human Appraisals and (English) Descriptions of Robot Emotional Behaviors. | Josue Torres-Fonsesca, Casey Kennington |
| 2022 | RO-MAN | Understanding Intention for Machine Theory of Mind: a Position Paper. | Casey Kennington |
| 2022 | SIGdial | Symbol and Communicative Grounding through Object Permanence with a Mobile Robot. | Josue Torres-Fonseca, Catherine Henry, Casey Kennington |
| 2021 | CoNLL | Enriching Language Models with Visually-grounded Word Vectors and the Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms. | Casey Kennington |
| 2021 | ECIR | BiGBERT: Classifying Educational Web Resources for Kindergarten-12 | Garrett Allen, Brody Downs, Aprajita Shukla, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2020 | LREC | Evaluating and Improving Child-Directed Automatic Speech Recognition. | Eric G. Booth, Jake Carns, Casey Kennington, Nader Rafla |
| 2020 | LREC | KidSpell: A Child-Oriented, Rule-Based, Phonetic Spellchecker. | Brody Downs, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Aprajita Shukla, Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington |
| 2020 | SIGdial | rrSDS: Towards a Robot-ready Spoken Dialogue System. | Casey Kennington, Daniele Moro, Lucas Marchand, Jake Carns, David McNeill |
| 2020 | SIGdial | Learning Word Groundings from Humans Facilitated by Robot Emotional Displays. | David McNeill, Casey Kennington |
| 2018 | AAAI | Placing Objects in Gesture Space: Toward Incremental Interpretation of Multimodal Spatial Descriptions. | Ting Han, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen |
| 2018 | SIGdial | Predicting Perceived Age: Both Language Ability and Appearance are Important. | Sarah Plane, Ariel Marvasti, Tyler Egan, Casey Kennington |
| 2017 | HAI | A Graphical Digital Personal Assistant that Grounds and Learns Autonomously. | Casey Kennington, Aprajita Shukla |
| 2017 | ICMI | Temporal alignment using the incremental unit framework. | Casey Kennington, Ting Han, David Schlangen |
| 2017 | IVA | Silence, Please! Interrupting In-Car Phone Conversations. | Soledad Lpez Gambino, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen |
| 2016 | ACL | OpenDial: A Toolkit for Developing Spoken Dialogue Systems with Probabilistic Rules. | Pierre Lison, Casey Kennington |
| 2016 | ACL | Resolving References to Objects in Photographs using the Words-As-Classifiers Model. | David Schlangen, Sina Zarrie, Casey Kennington |
| 2016 | LREC | PentoRef: A Corpus of Spoken References in Task-oriented Dialogues. | Sina Zarrie, Julian Hough, Casey Kennington, Ramesh R. Manuvinakurike, David DeVault, Raquel Fernndez, David Schlangen |
| 2016 | SIGdial | Supporting Spoken Assistant Systems with a Graphical User Interface that Signals Incremental Understanding and Prediction State. | Casey Kennington, David Schlangen |
| 2016 | SIGdial | Real-Time Understanding of Complex Discriminative Scene Descriptions. | Ramesh R. Manuvinakurike, Casey Kennington, David DeVault, David Schlangen |
| 2015 | ACL | Simple Learning and Compositional Application of Perceptually Grounded Word Meanings for Incremental Reference Resolution. | Casey Kennington, David Schlangen |
| 2015 | NAACL | Incrementally Tracking Reference in Human/Human Dialogue Using Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Information. | Casey Kennington, Ryu Iida, Takenobu Tokunaga, David Schlangen |
| 2014 | COLING | Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding using a Multimodal, Linguistically-driven Update Model. | Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis, David Schlangen |
| 2014 | EACL | Situationally Aware In-Car Information Presentation Using Incremental Speech Generation: Safer, and More Effective. | Spyros Kousidis, Casey Kennington, Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Stefan Kopp, David Schlangen |
| 2014 | HRI | Probabilistic multiparty dialogue management for a game master robot. | Casey Kennington, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuki Takahashi, Mikio Nakano |
| 2014 | ICMI | A Multimodal In-Car Dialogue System That Tracks The Driver's Attention. | Spyros Kousidis, Casey Kennington, Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Stefan Kopp, David Schlangen |
| 2014 | SIGdial | InproTKs: A Toolkit for Incremental Situated Processing. | Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis, David Schlangen |
| 2013 | SIGdial | Interpreting Situated Dialogue Utterances: an Update Model that Uses Speech, Gaze, and Gesture Information. | Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis, David Schlangen |
| 2013 | SIGdial | Investigating speaker gaze and pointing behaviour in human-computer interaction with the mint.tools collection. | Spyros Kousidis, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen |
| 2012 | SIGdial | Markov Logic Networks for Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding. | Casey Kennington, David Schlangen |
| 2008 | LREC | Elicited Imitation as an Oral Proficiency Measure with ASR Scoring. | C. Ray Graham, Deryle Lonsdale, Casey Kennington, Aaron Johnson, Jeremiah McGhee |