🧑‍🔬 Kathleen F. McCoy

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of DelawareNewark · United States1988–2025 · 76 paperscurrent🎓University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia · United States1982–1986 · 5 papers🏥Alfred I. duPont Hospital for ChildrenWilmington · United States1997–2006 · 3 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📅 Works by year

2000s

1990s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Efficiently Computed Lexical Chains as an Intermediate Representation for Automatic Text Summarization (2002 · 225 citations)
   Lexical chains are groups of semantically related nouns linked by identity, synonymy, hypernymy/hyponymy or sibling relations.
2. RAFT/RAPR and Centering: a comparison and discussion of problems related to processing complex sentences (1994 · 60 citations)
   This squib compares two local focusing frameworks that propose antecedents for pronouns, which an inference component then confirms or rejects.
3. Modeling User Language Proficiency in a Writing Tutor for Deaf Learners of English (1999 · 14 citations)
   The paper addresses how a writing tutor can adapt its feedback to learners whose English proficiency varies widely.
4. Error Profiling: Toward a Model of English Acquisition for Deaf Learners (2001 · 9 citations)
   ICICLE is a writing tutor for deaf students whose first language is American Sign Language. Its parser uses a broad English grammar extended with mal-rules for typical learner errors, so it often returns several analyses of one ungrammatical sentence. The most plausible analysis depends on how proficient the writer…

All works

6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Efficiently Computed Lexical Chains as an Intermediate Representation for Automatic Text SummarizationComputational LinguisticsH. Gregory Silber, Kathleen F. McCoy2002 · 225 citations
2. Generation of Single-sentence Paraphrases from Predicate/Argument Structure using Lexico-grammatical Resources ↗Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing · no summary yetRaymond Kozlowski, Kathleen F. McCoy, K. Vijay-Shanker2003 · 74 citations
3. RAFT/RAPR and Centering: a comparison and discussion of problems related to processing complex sentencesComputational LinguisticsLinda Z. Suri, Kathleen McCoy1994 · 60 citations
4. Modeling User Language Proficiency in a Writing Tutor for Deaf Learners of EnglishComputer Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language ProcessingLisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy1999 · 14 citations
5. A Tutor for Teaching English as a Second Language for Deaf Users of American Sign Language ↗Natural Language Processing for Communication Aids · no summary yetKathleen F. McCoy, Lisa N. Masterman1997 · 11 citations
6. Error Profiling: Toward a Model of English Acquisition for Deaf LearnersAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Lisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy2001 · 9 citations

🤝 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

• Lisa N. Michaud ×2

Venues

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

• Computational Linguistics ×2: Computational Linguistics 2002, Computational Linguistics 1994
• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): ACL 2001
• Computer Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing
• Natural Language Processing for Communication Aids
• Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 66 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 15 citing papers with a page here →.

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