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Susan W. McRoy

Susan W. McRoy has 2 papers in our library, in 1992–1995, most of them on Speech act theory, Word sense disambiguation, Morphology; often with Graeme Hirst.

2 papers in our library · 1992–1995

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 18 · 91 works · 1,414 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 42 times in our library · 1 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5087

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 Affiliations

🎓University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeMilwaukee · United States1995–2026 · 65 papersEmployment since 2010 · Professor, Computer Sciencecurrent🎓University of TorontoToronto · Canada1990–1994 · 4 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 works

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Speech act theory · 1 workMorphology · 1 workWord sense disambiguation · 1 work

 Works by year

1990s

19951 paper19921 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Using Multiple Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Discrimination (1992 · 173 citations)
    McRoy tackles word sense discrimination in unrestricted English text, meaning the choice of the right sense for each word without first building a complete syntactic or semantic representation of the sentence.
  2. The Repair of Speech Act Misunderstandings by Abductive Inference (1995 · 109 citations)
    The paper tackles a gap in dialogue modelling. Earlier systems tried to prevent misconceptions, but none could notice and fix a speech act misunderstanding after it had happened. Such a misunderstanding arises when two participants assign different discourse roles to the same utterance, for example one hears an…

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. Using Multiple Knowledge Sources for Word Sense DiscriminationComputational LinguisticsSusan W. McRoy1992 · 173 citations
  2. The Repair of Speech Act Misunderstandings by Abductive InferenceComputational LinguisticsSusan W. McRoy, Graeme Hirst1995 · 109 citations
  3. Enriching partially-specified representations for text realization using an attribute grammar ↗INLG'2000 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation · no summary yetSongsak Channarukul, Susan W. McRoy, Syed S. Ali2000 · 21 citations

 Co-authors here

1 co-author 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 42 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 8 citing papers with a page here →.

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