| 2025 | FlAIRS | Context is Key: Aligning Large Language Models with Human Moral Judgments through Retrieval-Augmented Generation. | Matthew Boraske, Richard Burns |
| 2016 | DIAGRAMS | Exploring the Types of Messages that Pie Charts Convey in Popular Media. | Richard Burns, Eric Balawejder, Wiktoria Domanowska, Stephanie Elzer Schwartz, Sandra Carberry |
| 2015 | FlAIRS | Classifying Salient Textual Entities in the Headlines and Captions of Grouped Bar Charts. | Richard Burns, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer Schwartz |
| 2014 | FlAIRS | Analyzing the Effect of Communicative Evidence in a Bayesian System for Grouped Bar Chart Message Recognition. | Richard Burns, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer Schwartz |
| 2013 | CICLING | What is being Measured in an Information Graphic? | Seniz Demir, Stephanie Elzer Schwartz, Richard Burns, Sandra Carberry |
| 2012 | DIAGRAMS | Automatically Recognizing Intended Messages in Grouped Bar Charts. | Richard Burns, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Daniel Chester |
| 2012 | ICSE | An experience report on cross-semester student critique and action in an integrated software engineering, service learning course. | Richard Burns, Terry Harvey, Lori L. Pollock |
| 2012 | SIGCSE | Integrating hard and soft skills: software engineers serving middle school teachers. | Richard Burns, Lori L. Pollock, Terry Harvey |
| 2010 | AAAI | Visual and Spatial Factors in a Bayesian Reasoning Framework for the Recognition of Intended Messages in Grouped Bar Charts. | Richard Burns, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer |
| 2008 | DIAGRAMS | Estimating Effort for Trend Messages in Grouped Bar Charts. | Richard Burns, Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry |