| 2017 | AAAI | Natural Language Dialogue for Building and Learning Models and Structures. | Ian Perera, James F. Allen, Lucian Galescu, Choh Man Teng, Mark H. Burstein, Scott E. Friedman, David D. McDonald, Jeffrey M. Rye |
| 2016 | AAAI | Extending Biology Models with Deep NLP over Scientific Articles. | David D. McDonald, Scott E. Friedman, Amandalynne Paullada, Rusty Bobrow, Mark H. Burstein |
| 2008 | AAAI | POIROT - Integrated Learning of Web Service Procedures. | Mark H. Burstein, Robert Laddaga, David D. McDonald, Michael T. Cox, Brett Benyo, Paul Robertson, Talib S. Hussain, Marshall Brinn, Drew V. McDermott |
| 2008 | SIGMETRICS | Performance of random medium access control, an asymptotic approach. | Charles Bordenave, David D. McDonald, Alexandre Proutire |
| 2001 | FOIS | The view from the trenches: issues in the ontology of restricted domains. | David D. McDonald |
| 1998 | INLG | Controlled Realization of Complex Objects. | David D. McDonald |
| 1994 | INLG | On the Creative Use of Language: The Form of Lexical Resources. | David D. McDonald, Federica Busa |
| 1988 | COLING | Directing the generation of living space description. | Penelope Sibun, Alison K. Huettner, David D. McDonald |
| 1987 | ACL | Constraints on the Generation of Adjunct Clauses. | Alison K. Huettner, Marie M. Vaughan, David D. McDonald |
| 1986 | ACL | A Model of Revision in Natural Language Generation. | Marie M. Vaughan, David D. McDonald |
| 1985 | ACL | TAGs as a Grammatical Formalism for Generation. | David D. McDonald, James Pustejovsky |
| 1985 | EACL | A Computational Theory of Prose Style for Natural Language Generation. | David D. McDonald, James Pustejovsky |
| 1985 | IJCAI | Description-directed Natural Language Generation. | David D. McDonald, James Pustejovsky |
| 1984 | AAAI | Context-Dependent Transitions in Tutoring Discourse. | Beverly Park Woolf, David D. McDonald |
| 1984 | COLING | Conveying Implicit Content In Narrative Summaries. | Malcolm E. Cook, Wendy G. Lehnert, David D. McDonald |
| 1983 | CHI | Human-computer discourse in the design of a PASCAL tutor. | Beverly Park Woolf, David D. McDonald |
| 1983 | IJCAI | Why Good Writing Is Easier to Understand. | John H. Clippinger Jr., David D. McDonald |
| 1982 | AAAI | Salience as a Simplifying Metaphor for Natural Language Generation. | David D. McDonald, E. Jeffrey Conklin |
| 1982 | ACL | Salience: the Key to the Selection Problem in Natural Language Generation. | E. Jeffrey Conklin, David D. McDonald |
| 1981 | ACL | Language Production: the Source of the Dictionary. | David D. McDonald |
| 1980 | ACL | A Linear-Time Model of Language Production: Some Psychological Implications. | David D. McDonald |
| 1977 | IJCAI | Language Generation: The Linguistics Component. | David D. McDonald |