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Amy Isard

Amy Isard has 2 papers in our library, in 1997–2026, most of them on Dialogue systems; often with Hope E. Morgan, Jean Carletta.

2 papers in our library · 1997–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 17 · 83 works · 1,326 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 85 times in our library · 1 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3915

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 Affiliations

🎓Universität HamburgHamburg · Germany2019–2026 · 8 papersEmployment since 2019 · Research Associate / Wissenschafltiche Mitarbeiterin, Hub of Computing and Data Science and Institute of German Sign Languagecurrent🎓University of EdinburghEdinburgh · United Kingdom1994–2020 · 27 papersEducation 1994–1995 · MSc in Artifical Intelligence (Knowledge Based Systems), Department of Artificial IntelligenceEmployment 1997–2019 · Researcher, School of Informatics
🏛️King's College Cambridge, University of CambridgeCambridge · United Kingdom1988–1992Education 1988–1992 · MA in Modern Languages (French, German and Linguistics), Modern Languages

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 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 8The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 1 workPsychology · 1 workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology · 1 workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 workHuman-Computer Interaction · 1 work

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Dialogue systems · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper

1990s

19971 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. The Reliability of a Dialogue Structure Coding Scheme (1997 · 480 citations)
    Dialogue research has long relied on isolated examples, and groups annotating large corpora each used task-specific labels.
  2. Improving phonological distance measures for signs: the CatFormCompare tool (2026 · 1 citation)
    Sign language phonology lacks a notation precise enough to find minimal pairs automatically. A minimal pair is two signs with different meanings that differ in only one form value. Levenshtein-style edit distances assume sequential segments, but sign features are mostly simultaneous and contrast mainly by…

All works

3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. The Reliability of a Dialogue Structure Coding SchemeComputational LinguisticsJean Carletta, Amy Isard, Stephen Isard, et al.1997 · 480 citations
  2. The Methodius Corpus of Rhetorical Discourse Structures and Generated Texts ↗Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) · no summary yetIsard, Amy2016 · 8 citations
  3. Improving phonological distance measures for signs: the CatFormCompare toolLREC Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in MotionHope E. Morgan, Amy Isard, Anh Dang2026 · 1 citation

 Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 85 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 24 citing papers with a page here →.

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