Ellen Campana

Ellen CampanaHuman Bridge, Methodology Geek, and 5th year Graduate Student, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science

Contact Information

  • Meliora 409
  • Brain and Cognitive Sciences
  • University of Rochester
  • Rochester, NY 14627-0268
  • (585) 275-3075 (office)

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Education

  • 2005: M.A. Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
  • 2000: B.S. Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • 2000: B.S. Computer Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Research Overview

I have multiple research goals that lie at the intersection points between the fields of psycholinguistics and dialogue system research. My psycholinguistic research tends to be directed toward issues that are particularly challenging for dialogue systems, and my dialogue system research tends to focus on approaches that may lead to better understanding of human language processes. I am currently involved in the following active projects:

  • Dialogue systems as a tool for psycholinguistic research. With James Allen and Mike Tanenhaus
  • Multimodal Integration of Iconic Gesture and Speech Information: Applications to Autism Research. With Laura Silverman, Loisa Benetto, and Mike Tanenhaus.
  • Comprehension of instrument verbs in context. With Rachel Sussman, Mike Tanenhaus, and Greg Carlson.
  • Developing a method for evaluating the success of dialog systems, using eye-tracking data as a dependant measure. With Mary Swift, Mike Tanenhaus, and James Allen.
  • Using eye movements to improve dialogue system performance. With Leland S. Stone, Roger W. Remington, John Dowding, Beth Ann Hockey, Jim Heironymus, Greg Aist, and Jason Baldridge.
  • Circumscription of referential domains during collaborative problem-solving. With Sarah Brown-Schmidt and Mike Tanenhaus.

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Recent Publications

  • Aist, G., Bohus, D., Boven, B., Campana, E., Early, S., and Phan, S. (2004). Initial development of a voice-activated astronaut assistant for procedural tasks: From need to concept to prototype. Journal of Interactive Instruction Development, 16(3): 32-36.
  • Aist, G., Campana, E., Allen, J., Rotondo, M., Swift, M. and Tanenhaus, M. (2005). Variations along the contextual continuum in task-oriented speech. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy, July 2005.
  • Aist, G., Dowding, J., Hockey, B. A., Rayner, M., Hieronymus, J., Bohus, D., Boven, B., Blaylock, N., Campana, E., Early, S., Gorrell, G., and Phan, S. (2003). Talking through Procedures: An Intelligent Space Station Procedure Assistant. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Budapest, Hungary, April 2003.
  • Allen, J., Ferguson, G., Swift, M., Stent, A., Stoness, S., Galescu, L., Chambers, N., Campana, E., and Aist, G. (2005). Two diverse systems built using generic components for spoken dialogue (Recent progress on TRIPS). Demo presented at ACL.
  • Brown-Schmidt, S., Campana, E. and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2005). Real-time reference resolution by naïve participants during a task-based unscripted conversation. In J.C. Trueswell & M.K. Tanenhaus (eds.). World-situated language processing: Bridging the language as product and language as action traditions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Brown-Schmidt,S., Campana, E. and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2002). Reference resolution in the wild: Online circumscription of referential domains in a natural interactive problem-solving task. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Fairfax, VA, August 2002.
  • Campana,E., Baldridge, J., Dowding, J., Hockey, B.A., Remington, R.W., and Stone, L.S. (2001). Using eye movements to determine referents in a spoken dialogue system. In Workshop on Perceptive User Interfaces.ACM Digital Library: November, 2001.
  • Campana,E., Brown-Schmidt, S. and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2002). Reference resolution by human partners in a natural interactive problem-solving task. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP): Denver, CO, September 2002.
  • Campana, E., Silverman, L. and Bennetto, L. (2004). Iconic Gesture Production in Controlled Referential Domains. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago, IL, August 2004.
  • Campana, E., Silverman, L., Tanenhaus, M., Bennetto, L, and Packard, S. (2005). Real-time Integration of Gesture and Speech during Reference Resolution. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy, July 2005.
  • Campana, E., Silverman, L., Tanenhaus, M. K., and Bennetto, L (2005). Integration of gesture and speech in real-time reference resolution. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Tucson, AZ, March 2005.
  • Campana, E., Tanenhaus, M. K., Allen, J. F. and Remington, R.W. (2004). Evaluating Cognitive Load in Spoken Language Interfaces using a Dual-Task Paradigm. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP). Jeju Island, Korea. October, 2004.
  • Dowding, J., Early, S., Hieronymus, J. and Campana, E. (2003). Spoken Dialogue Systems in Space Suits. Sixth Annual Mars Society Convention, Eugene, OR, August 2003.
  • Dowding, J. and Campana, E. (2004). Spoken Dialogue Systems in MDRS Rotation 29. Seventh Annual Mars Society Convention, Chicago, IL, August 2004.
  • Hockey, B.A., Lemon, O., Campana, E., Hiatt, L., Aist, G., Hieronymus, J., Gruenstein, A., and Dowding, J. (2003) Targeted help for spoken dialogue systems: Intelligent feedback improves naïve users performance. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Budapest, Hungary, April 2003.
  • Robertson,D.A., Gernsbacher, M. A., Guidotti, S.J., Robertson, R.R.W., Irwin, W., Mock, B.J., Campana, M.E. (2000). fMRI Investigation of the Cognitive Process of Mapping during Discourse Comprehension. Psychological Science,11:3, 1-8.
  • Sussman, R.S., Campana, E., Tanenhaus, M. K. (2003). Verb-based access to instrument roles during both action and listening tasks. Sixteenth Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Boston, MA.
  • Sussman, R.S., Campana, E., Tanenhaus, M.K. and Carlson, G.M. (2002). Verb-based access to instrument roles: evidence from eye movements. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP): Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
  • Sussman, R.S., Tanenhaus, M.K., Campana, E., and Carlson, G.N. (2005) Verb-instrument information during online processing. Verb Workshop 2005. Saarland University, Saarland, Germany.
  • Swift,M.D., Campana, E., Allen, J.F., and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2002). Incremental referential domain circumscription during processing of natural and synthesized speech. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Fairfax, VA, August 2002.
  • Swift, M.D., Campana, E., Allen, J.F., and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2002). Eye-fixation as a measure of real-time processing of synthesized words. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP): Denver, CO, September 2002.
  • Swift, M.D., Campana, E., Allen, J.F., and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2002). Monitoring Eye Movements as an Evaluation of Synthesized Speech. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis: Santa Monica, CA, September 2002.

Posters

  • Brown-Schmidt, S., Campana, E., and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2002). Reference resolution in the wild: How addressees circumscribe referential domains in real time comprehension durning interactive problem-solving. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference: New York, NY.
  • Campana, E., Baldridge, J., Dowding, J., Hockey, B.A., Remington, R.W., and Stone, L.S. (2001). Using eye movements to determine referents in a spoken dialogue system. Workshop on Perceptive User Interfaces: Orlando, FL.
  • Sussman, R.S., Campana, E., and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2000). Interaction of typicality and local context for instrument verbs. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference: Philadelphia, PA.
  • Sussman, R.S., Campana, E., Tanenhaus, M.K. and Carlson, G.M. (2002). Verb-based access to instrument roles: evidence from eye movements. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP): Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Refereed Conference Talks

  • The 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (8/2002), Denver, CO. Reference resolution by human partners in a natural interactive problem-solving task.

Invited Talks

  • Cognitive Science Brown Bag Series (4/14/2005), University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Timecourse of Gesture Comprehension in Typical and Atypical Populations.
  • Guest Lecture (12/2/2004), University of Rochester, BCS 152- Language and Psycholinguistics. Computer Language Processing and Understanding.
  • Guest Lecture (12/5/2003), University of Rochester, BCS 152- Language and Psycholinguistics. Computer Language Processing and Understanding.
  • Guest Lecture (12/6/2002), University of Rochester, BCS 152- Language and Psycholinguistics. Computer Language Processing and Understanding.
  • Big Picture Talk (11/15/2002), University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science. Reference Resolution by Human Partners in a Natural Interactive Problem-Solving Task.
  • SSRP Student Colloquium (7/25/2002), NASA Ames Research Center. Gaze and Language II: Using eye movements to improve the link between language and the world in a spoken dialogue system.
  • Guest Lecture (4/16/2002), University of Rochester, BCS 111-Foundations of Cognitive Science. The Mind as a Computer.
  • Big Picture Talk (11/2/2001), University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science. Using eye movements to improve spoken dialogue system performance.
  • SSRP Student Colloquium (8/15/2001), NASA Ames Research Center. Gaze and language: Using eye movements to improve spoken dialogue system performance.
  • Stanford NLP Reading Group (6/1/2001), Stanford University. Eye-movements and Language: Recent Advances.

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Courses Taken

  • BCS 502: Cognition. Instructor: Robbie Jacobs. Fall 2000.
  • BCS 511: Behavioral and Imaging Methods. Instructor: Daphne Bevelier. Fall 2000.
  • CSC 444: Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence. Instructor: James Allen. Fall 2000.
  • CSC 566: Seminar in Artificial Intelligence. Instructors: James Allen and Mike Tanenhaus. Spring 2001.
  • CSP 519: Data Analysis: General Linear Approaches II. Instructor: Harry Reis. Spring 2001.
  • CSC 447: Natural Language Processing. Instructor: Len Schubert. Spring 2001.
  • BCS 501: Language. Instructors: Elissa Newport and Mike Tanenhaus. Fall 2001.
  • BCS 562: Seminar in Language Production. Instructor: Jennifer Arnold. Fall 2001.
  • BCS 512: Computational Methods. Instructor: Robbie Jacobs. Fall 2001.
  • CSC 448: Speech Recognition and Statistical Language Models. Instructor: James Allen. Spring 2002.
  • BCS 563: Language Understanding. Instructor: Mike Tanenhaus. Fall 2002.
  • CSC 400: Problems Seminar. Instructor: James Allen. Fall 2002.
  • BCS 505: Perception and Motor Systems. Instructor: David Knill. Fall 2002.
  • BCS 582: Grant Writing in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Instructor: David Knill. Spring 2003.

Teaching Experience

  • BCS 111: Foundations of Cognitive Science. Teaching Assistant, Spring 2002. Grader, Fall 2003.
  • BCS 112: Cognitive Psychology. Teaching Assistant. Spring 2003. Spring 2004.

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Honors and Awards

  • NASA/RIACS SSRP Continuation Award, 2001
  • NASA GSRP Fellowship, 2003, 2004, 2005

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Activities and Service

Professional Activities

  • Internship: SSRP, NASA Ames Research Center/ Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Summer 2001, Summer 2002.

Service

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Research Collaborators

University of Rochester

NASA (Ames Research Center)

Others

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