| 2026 | AAAI | Beyond Step Pruning: Information Theory Based Step-level Optimization for Self-Refining Large Language Models. | Jinman Zhao, Erxue Min, Hui Wu, Ziheng Li, Zexu Sun, Hengyi Cai, Shuaiqiang Wang, Xu Chen, Gerald Penn |
| 2026 | WWW | Calculating Narrative Tension for Ad Placement in Online Narrative Fiction. | Vedansh Mehta, Sajad Shirali-Shahreza, Gerald Penn |
| 2026 | WWW | Towards Automated Brand-Safety Detection: A Novel Dataset and Comparative Analysis of Language Models. | Xin Peng, Gerald Penn |
| 2026 | WWW | The More You Say, the More You Risk: Ethical Concerns in Large Language Model Reasoning Frameworks. | Jinman Zhao, Linbo Cao, Xueyan Zhang, Ken Shi, Yining Wang, Gerald Penn |
| 2025 | AI | Attenuating Catastrophic Forgetting of Token-Level Knowledge in Contrastive Sentence Embeddings with Attentive Pooling. | Saifei Liao, Jingceng Niu, Gerald Penn |
| 2025 | CHI | Conversational Voice Interfaces: Translating Research Into Actionable Design. | Christine Murad, Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2025 | CHI | Making the Write Connections: Linking Writing Support Tools with Writer Needs. | Zixin Zhao, Damien Masson, Young-Ho Kim, Gerald Penn, Fanny Chevalier |
| 2025 | COLING | Semantic Masking in a Needle-in-a-haystack Test for Evaluating Large Language Model Long-Text Capabilities. | Ken Shi, Gerald Penn |
| 2025 | COLING | Inside-Outside Algorithm for Probabilistic Product-Free Lambek Categorial Grammar. | Jinman Zhao, Gerald Penn |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Sheaf Discovery with Joint Computation Graph Pruning and Flexible Granularity. | Lei Yu, Jingcheng Niu, Zining Zhu, Xi Chen, Gerald Penn |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Tiny Budgets, Big Gains: Parameter Placement Strategy in Parameter Super-Efficient Fine-Tuning. | Jinman Zhao, Xueyan Zhang, Jiaru Li, Jingcheng Niu, Yulan Hu, Erxue Min, Gerald Penn |
| 2024 | ACL | ConTempo: A Unified Temporally Contrastive Framework for Temporal Relation Extraction. | Jingcheng Niu, Saifei Liao, Victoria Ng, Simon de Montigny, Gerald Penn |
| 2024 | CHI | Conversational Voice Interfaces: Translating Research Into Actionable Design. | Christine Murad, Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2024 | COLING | LCGbank: A Corpus of Syntactic Analyses Based on Proof Nets. | Aditya Bhargava, Timothy A. D. Fowler, Gerald Penn |
| 2024 | COLING | A Generative Model for Lambek Categorial Sequents. | Jinman Zhao, Gerald Penn |
| 2024 | EMNLP | LLM-supertagger: Categorial Grammar Supertagging via Large Language Models. | Jinman Zhao, Gerald Penn |
| 2024 | ICLR | What does the Knowledge Neuron Thesis Have to do with Knowledge? | Jingcheng Niu, Andrew Liu, Zining Zhu, Gerald Penn |
| 2024 | Interspeech | Quantifying the Role of Textual Predictability in Automatic Speech Recognition. | Sean Robertson, Gerald Penn, Ewan Dunbar |
| 2023 | ACL | Decomposed scoring of CCG dependencies. | Aditya Bhargava, Gerald Penn |
| 2022 | COLING | Does BERT Rediscover a Classical NLP Pipeline? | Jingcheng Niu, Wenjie Lu, Gerald Penn |
| 2021 | CHI | Conversational Voice User Interfaces: Connecting Engineering Fundamentals to Design Considerations. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn, Christine Murad |
| 2021 | EACL | Reanalyzing the Most Probable Sentence Problem: A Case Study in Explicating the Role of Entropy in Algorithmic Complexity. | Eric Corlett, Gerald Penn |
| 2021 | EACL | The Chinese Remainder Theorem for Compact, Task-Precise, Efficient and Secure Word Embeddings. | Patricia Thaine, Gerald Penn |
| 2020 | LREC | Temporal Histories of Epidemic Events (THEE): A Case Study in Temporal Annotation for Public Health. | Jingcheng Niu, Victoria Ng, Gerald Penn, Erin E. Rees |
| 2020 | LREC | FAB: The French Absolute Beginner Corpus for Pronunciation Training. | Sean Robertson, Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2020 | WSDM | Perfectly Privacy-Preserving AI What Is It and How Do We Achieve It? | Patricia Thaine, Gerald Penn |
| 2020 | WSDM | Perfectly Privacy-Preserving AI What Is It and How Do We Achieve It? | Patricia Thaine, Gerald Penn |
| 2019 | ACL | Rationally Reappraising ATIS-based Dialogue Systems. | Jingcheng Niu, Gerald Penn |
| 2019 | Interspeech | Extracting Mel-Frequency and Bark-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients from Encrypted Signals. | Patricia Thaine, Gerald Penn |
| 2019 | SP | Efficient Evaluation of Activation Functions over Encrypted Data. | Patricia Thaine, Sergey Gorbunov, Gerald Penn |
| 2018 | CHI | Speech and Hands-free Interaction: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2018 | CHI | Designing Pronunciation Learning Tools: The Case for Interactivity against Over-Engineering. | Sean Robertson, Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2018 | DocEng | Can Deep Learning Compensate for a Shallow Evaluation? | Gerald Penn |
| 2017 | AAAI | Crowdsourcing the Pronunciation of Out-of-Vocabulary Words. | Sajad Shirali-Shahreza, Pieter Luitjens, Natalie Morcos, Wen Xiao, Zhenghong Qian, Gerald Penn |
| 2017 | CHI | Designing Speech, Acoustic and Multimodal Interactions. | Cosmin Munteanu, Pourang Irani, Sharon L. Oviatt, Matthew P. Aylett, Gerald Penn, Shimei Pan, Nikhil Sharma, Frank Rudzicz, Randy Gomez, Benjamin R. Cowan, Keisuke Nakamura |
| 2017 | CHI | Speech-based Interaction: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2017 | EMNLP | Vowel and Consonant Classification through Spectral Decomposition. | Patricia Thaine, Gerald Penn |
| 2016 | ACL | Evaluating Sentiment Analysis in the Context of Securities Trading. | Siavash Kazemian, Shunan Zhao, Gerald Penn |
| 2016 | CHI | Designing Speech and Multimodal Interactions for Mobile, Wearable, and Pervasive Applications. | Cosmin Munteanu, Pourang Irani, Sharon L. Oviatt, Matthew P. Aylett, Gerald Penn, Shimei Pan, Nikhil Sharma, Frank Rudzicz, Randy Gomez, Keisuke Nakamura, Kazuhiro Nakadai |
| 2016 | CHI | Speech-based Interaction: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2016 | Interspeech | Pronunciation Error Detection for New Language Learners. | Sean Robertson, Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2015 | ASRU | Deep bi-directional recurrent networks over spectral windows. | Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Frank Seide, Dong Yu, Jasha Droppo, Andreas Stolcke, Geoffrey Zweig, Gerald Penn |
| 2015 | CHI | Speech-based Interaction: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2015 | IUI | Speech-based Interaction: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2014 | CHI | The CBC newsworld holodeck. | Martha Ladly, Gerald Penn, Cathy Pin Chun Chen, Pavika Chintraruck, Maziar Ghaderi, Bryn A. Ludlow, Jessica Peter, Ruzette Tanyag, Peggy Zhou, Siavash Kazemian |
| 2014 | CHI | Designing speech and language interactions. | Cosmin Munteanu, Matt Jones, Steve Whittaker, Sharon L. Oviatt, Matthew P. Aylett, Gerald Penn, Stephen A. Brewster, Nicolas D'Alessandro |
| 2014 | CHI | Speech-based interaction: myths, challenges, and opportunities. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2014 | EMNLP | Unsupervised Sentence Enhancement for Automatic Summarization. | Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn |
| 2013 | ACL | Probabilistic Domain Modelling With Contextualized Distributional Semantic Vectors. | Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn |
| 2013 | ACL | Towards Robust Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization: A Caseframe Analysis of Centrality and Domain. | Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn |
| 2013 | ACL | The mathematics of language learning. | Andrs Kornai, Gerald Penn, James Rogers, Anssi Yli-Jyr |
| 2013 | CHI | We need to talk: HCI and the delicate topic of spoken language interaction. | Cosmin Munteanu, Matt Jones, Sharon L. Oviatt, Stephen A. Brewster, Gerald Penn, Steve Whittaker, Nitendra Rajput, Amit Anil Nanavati |
| 2013 | CHI | SeeSay and HearSay CAPTCHA for mobile interaction. | Sajad Shirali-Shahreza, Gerald Penn, Ravin Balakrishnan, Yashar Ganjali |
| 2013 | Interspeech | Automatic human utility evaluation of ASR systems: does WER really predict performance? | Benot Favre, Kyla Cheung, Siavash Kazemian, Adam Lee, Yang Liu, Cosmin Munteanu, Ani Nenkova, Dennis Ochei, Gerald Penn, Stephen Tratz, Clare R. Voss, Frauke Zeller |
| 2012 | CHI | An ecologically valid evaluation of speech summarization. | Anthony McCallum, Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn, Xiaodan Zhu |
| 2012 | COLING | Flexible Structural Analysis of Near-Meet-Semilattices for Typed Unification-Based Grammar Design. | Rouzbeh Farahmand, Gerald Penn |
| 2012 | COLING | On Panini and the Generative Capacity of Contextualized Replacement Systems. | Gerald Penn, Paul Kiparsky |
| 2012 | EACL | Evaluating Distributional Models of Semantics for Syntactically Invariant Inference. | Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn |
| 2012 | EACL | Unsupervised Detection of Downward-Entailing Operators By Maximizing Classification Certainty. | Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn |
| 2012 | ICASSP | Applying Convolutional Neural Networks concepts to hybrid NN-HMM model for speech recognition. | Ossama Abdel-Hamid, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Hui Jiang, Gerald Penn |
| 2012 | ICASSP | Understanding how Deep Belief Networks perform acoustic modelling. | Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Geoffrey E. Hinton, Gerald Penn |
| 2012 | NAACL | Ecological Validity and the Evaluation of Speech Summarization Quality. | Anthony McCallum, Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn, Xiaodan Zhu |
| 2011 | IJCNLP | Indexing Spoken Documents with Hierarchical Semantic Structures: Semantic Tree-to-string Alignment Models. | Xiaodan Zhu, Colin Cherry, Gerald Penn |
| 2010 | ACL | Entity-Based Local Coherence Modelling Using Topological Fields. | Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn |
| 2010 | ACL | An Exact A* Method for Deciphering Letter-Substitution Ciphers. | Eric Corlett, Gerald Penn |
| 2010 | ACL | Accurate Context-Free Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar. | Timothy A. D. Fowler, Gerald Penn |
| 2010 | ACL | A Generalized-Zero-Preserving Method for Compact Encoding of Concept Lattices. | Matthew Skala, Victoria Krakovna, Jnos Kramr, Gerald Penn |
| 2010 | COLING | Imposing Hierarchical Browsing Structures onto Spoken Documents. | Xiaodan Zhu, Colin Cherry, Gerald Penn |
| 2010 | EMNLP | Utilizing Extra-Sentential Context for Parsing. | Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn |
| 2009 | ACL | Topological Field Parsing of German. | Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn |
| 2009 | ACL | Improving Automatic Speech Recognition for Lectures through Transformation-based Rules Learned from Minimal Data. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn, Xiaodan Zhu |
| 2009 | ACL | Summarizing multiple spoken documents: finding evidence from untranscribed audio. | Xiaodan Zhu, Gerald Penn, Frank Rudzicz |
| 2009 | AI | Statistical Parsing with Context-Free Filtering Grammar. | Michael Demko, Gerald Penn |
| 2008 | ACL | Interactive Visualization for Computational Linguistics. | Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn, Sheelagh Carpendale |
| 2008 | ACL | A Critical Reassessment of Evaluation Baselines for Speech Summarization. | Gerald Penn, Xiaodan Zhu |
| 2008 | CHI | Collaborative editing for improved usefulness and usability of transcript-enhanced webcasts. | Cosmin Munteanu, Ronald Baecker, Gerald Penn |
| 2008 | Interspeech | Using latent Dirichlet allocation to incorporate domain knowledge for topic transition detection. | Xiaodan Zhu, Xuming He, Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2007 | Interspeech | Web-based language modelling for automatic lecture transcription. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn, Ronald Baecker |
| 2006 | CHI | The effect of speech recognition accuracy rates on the usefulness and usability of webcast archives. | Cosmin Munteanu, Ronald Baecker, Gerald Penn, Elaine G. Toms, David James |
| 2006 | ICMI | Automatic speech recognition for webcasts: how good is good enough and what to do when it isn't. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn, Ronald Baecker, Yuecheng Zhang |
| 2006 | Interspeech | Measuring the acceptable word error rate of machine-generated webcast transcripts. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn, Ronald Baecker, Elaine G. Toms, David James |
| 2006 | Interspeech | Summarization of spontaneous conversations. | Xiaodan Zhu, Gerald Penn |
| 2006 | NAACL | Quantitative Methods for Classifying Writing Systems. | Gerald Penn, Travis Choma |
| 2006 | NAACL | Comparing the roles of textual, acoustic and spoken-language features on spontaneous-conversation summarization. | Xiaodan Zhu, Gerald Penn |
| 2004 | ACL | Head-Driven Parsing for Word Lattices. | Christopher Collins, Bob Carpenter, Gerald Penn |
| 2004 | ACL | Optimizing Typed Feature Structure Grammar Parsing through Non-Statistical Indexing. | Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn |
| 2004 | ACL | Balancing Clarity and Efficiency in Typed Feature Logic Through Delaying. | Gerald Penn |
| 2003 | ACL | A Tabulation-Based Parsing Method that Reduces Copying. | Gerald Penn, Cosmin Munteanu |
| 2003 | EACL | AVM Description Compilation using Types as Modes. | Gerald Penn |
| 2003 | EACL | Topological Parsing. | Gerald Penn, Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini |
| 2002 | ACL | Generalized Encoding of Description Spaces and its Application to Typed Feature Structures. | Gerald Penn |
| 2001 | ACL | Tractability and Structural Closures in Attribute Logic Type Signatures. | Gerald Penn |
| 2001 | ICDAR | Flexible Web Document Analysis for Delivery to Narrow-Bandwidth Devices. | Gerald Penn, Jianying Hu, Hengbin Luo, Ryan T. McDonald |
| 1999 | ICLP | An Optimized Prolog Encoding of Typed Feature Structures. | Gerald Penn |
| 1999 | Interspeech | ALE for speech: a translation prototype. | Gerald Penn, Bob Carpenter |
| 1998 | ACL | Parametric Types for Typed Attribute-Value Logic. | Gerald Penn |