Michael McTear - Selected Publications

BOOKS

McTear, M.F. (1985) Children's conversation. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

McTear, M.F. (1987) The Articulate Computer. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

McTear, M.F. (ed.) (1988) Understanding Cognitive Science. Chichester: Ellis Horwood.

McTear, M.F. & Anderson, T,J. (eds.) (1990) Understanding Knowledge Engineering. Chichester: Ellis Horwood.

McTear, M.F. & Creaney,N. (eds.) (1991) AI and Cognitive Science '90. London: Springer Verlag

McTear, M.F. & Conti-Ramsden, G. (1992) Pragmatic Disability in Children. London: Whurr Publishers Ltd

RECENT ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

(1992-1995)

Grant, C.A. & McTear, M.F. (1992) An expert system for property valuation. Journal of Property Valuation & Investment, Vol 10, No 3, 662-670.

Hong, J. & McTear, M.F. (1992) Acquiring plan inference rules on the basis of an action hierarchy. In R.Beale & J.Finlay (eds.) Neural networks and pattern recognition in human-computer interaction. Chichester: Ellis Horwood, pp. 375-403.

Liu, W., Hughes, J.G. & McTear, M.F. (1992) Representing heuristic knowledge in D-S theory. In D.Dubois, M.P.Wellman, B.D'Ambrosio & P Smets (eds.) Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference. San Mateo: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp. 182-190.

McIvor, R., Scullion, G. & McTear, M.F. (1992) The development of a strategic management interactive learning expert system (SMILE). International Journal of Information Resource Management 3(2), pp. 11-21.

McTear,M.F. (1992) Knowledge Engineering PD624. MONITOR - Newsletter of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Computing. No.3, pp. 6-8, September.

Liu,W., Hong,J., McTear,M.F. & Hughes,J.G. (1993) An extended framework for evidential reasoning systems. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Vol 7, No 3, pp. 441-457.

Liu, W., Hughes, J.G. & McTear,M.F. (1993) Representing Heuristic Knowledge and Propagating Beliefs in the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence. In M.Fedrizzi, J.Kacprzyk & R.R.Yager (eds.) Advances In the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 441-471.

McTear, M.F. Editorial: User Modelling. Artificial Intelligence Review. (Special issue on User Modelling, edited by M McTear), Vol 7, pp. 155-156.

McTear, M.F. (1993) User Modelling for Adaptive Computer Systems: A Survey of Recent Developments. Artificial Intelligence Review. (Special issue on User Modelling, edited by M McTear), Vol 7, pp. 157-184.

Murphy, M., Hughes, J.G. & McTear, M.F. (1993) Knowledge acquisition in the engineering domain: a case study. In H.Sorensen (ed.) AI and Cognitive Science '91. London: Springer Verlag, pp. 117-129.

Murphy, M., Hughes, J.G. & McTear, M.F. (1993) Knowledge based Systems for Consultancy, Training and Technology Transfer. Applications of Artificial Intelligence XI: Knowledge-based Systems in Aerospace and Industry. Florida, April 1993, pp. 1-8.

Murphy,M. & McTear, M.F. (1993) Intelligent technology and open learning. In H.J.Zimmermann (ed.) First European Congress on Fuzzy and Intelligent Technologies, Aachen, Germany, pp. 975-981.

Murphy, M., Hughes, J.G. & McTear, M.F. (1993) Knowledge based technology transfer. In R.Cowie & M.Owens (eds.) AI and Cognitive Science 6. Belfast: Queens University, pp. 261-270.

Murphy, M., Hughes, J.G. & McTear, M.F. (1993) Knowledge based technology transfer. The Irish Journal of Psychology, Vol 14, 3, pp. 514-528.

O'Neill, I. & McTear, M.F.(1993) Correcting syntactic errors in German sentences: a chart-based approach. In H.Sorensen (ed.)AI and Cognitive Science '91. London: Springer Verlag, pp. 77-94.

Wu,X., McTear,M.F. & Ojha,P. (1993) Word sense disambiguation by a higher order connectionist net based on distributed representations. IEEE TENCON '93, Beijing, China: International Academic Publishers, pp. 893-897.

Dobbin, T., Creaney, N. & McTear, M. (1994) Course construction in COMANTO. Computers in Education 23, 3, 237-250.

McCaffery, F. & McTear, M. (1994) A multimedia interface for circuit testing in a shop floor environmentWorking Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University, pp. 49-53.

Wu,X., McTear,M.F. & Ojha,P. (1994) Pronoun disambiguation using a hybrid system. 14th International Conference on AI, KBS, Expert Systems and Natural Language Processing, Paris, pp. 67-76.

Mulvenna, M.D., Ye, P., Murphy, M. & McTear, M.F.. (1994) Knowledge Engineering for Practical Applications. In Proc. 2nd. European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, 1994, Verlag der Augustinus Buchhandlung.

Ye, P., Mulvenna, M.D., Thompson, A. & McTear, M.F. (1994) A Method for Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling Problems In Proc. 2nd. European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, 1994, Verlag der Augustinus Buchhandlung.

Ye, P., Glass,D., McTear, M.F. & Hughes, J.G. (1994) Job cost and constraint relaxation for scheduling problem solving in the CLP paradigm. Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, pp. 640-644.

McCaffery, F., McTear, M.F. & Murphy, M. (1995) Designing a multimedia interface for operators assembling circuit boards. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication CMC/95, Eindhoven, pp. 225-236.

(1996 - 2000)

McCaffery, F. and McTear, M. (1996) Creating a multimedia interface to teach inexperienced circuit board assembly line operators how to correctly assemble circuit boards. Proceedings World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (ED-MEDIA 96), Boston, USA, 17-22 June, 1996, pp. 447 - 453.

McCaffery, F. and McTear, M. (1996) MICASSEM: Creating a Multimedia Interface for circuit board Assembly. Proceedings Fourteenth IASTED International Conference of Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria, 19-22 February, 1996, pp. 134 - 137. ISBN 0-88986-195-1.

Grant,C., Scott,T. and McTear, M.F. (1997) A Technological Approach to Training Needs Analysis. Journal of Innovations in Education and Training International, Volume 34, Issue 3, pp. 188-193. ISSN 0954 7304.

Greenan, K. and McTear, M.F. (1997) A rapid prototyping approach spoken dialogue system development: the directory assistance project. Proceedings of the Eighth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97), Vol. 2, pp. 160-167.

McTear, M.F., Downey, S., Behzadafshar, H., McCarthy, N. and McLaughlin, A. (1997) Going Slurpping - Initial Experiences with the CSLU Rapid Prototyping Environment for Spoken Dialogue Systems (CSLUrp). Faculty of Informatics Research Reports, Vol. 12, University of Ulster, pp. 13 - 22. ISSN 0966 - 4963.

Murphy, M. and McTear, M.F. (1997) Learner Modelling for Intelligent CALL. In A.Jameson, C. Paris, and C. Tasso (Eds.) User Modeling: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference, UM97 Vienna, New York: Springer Wien New York, pp. 301-312. ISBN 3-211-829006-7.

O’Neill, I.M. and McTear, M.F. (1997) An Object-Oriented Approach to Cross-Domain Dialogue Modelling. Faculty of Informatics Research Reports, Vol. 12, University of Ulster, pp. 1 - 11. ISSN 0966 - 4963.

O’Neill, I.M. and McTear, M.F. (1997) A dialogue control algorithm for spoken dialogue systems based on an object-architecture. Proceedings of the Eighth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97), Vol. 2, pp. 152-159.

O’Neill, I.M. and McTear, M.F. (1997) An object-oriented model for the design of cross-domain dialogue systems. Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems: Bringing Speech and NLP together in real applications: ACL/EACL Workshop, Madrid, July, pp. 25-28.

WU, X., McTEAR, M.F., and OJHA, P.C., SYMCON - A Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist System for Word Sense Disambiguation, Applied Intelligence: The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISSN: 0924-669X, 7, 1, pp5-26, 1997.

WU, X., McTEAR, M.F., and OJHA, P.C., Learning Semantic Relationships and Syntactic Roles in a Simple Recurrent Network, New Methods in Language Processing, (Eds) D. Jones and H. Somers, UCL Press, ISBN: 1-85728-711-8, pp113-122, 1997.

WU, X., McTEAR, M.F., OJHA, P.C., and DAI, H., A Hybrid System Framework for Disambiguating Word Senses, Connectionist Symbolic Integration, From Unified to Hybrid Approaches, (Eds) R. Sun and F. Alexandre, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, ISBN: 0-8058-2348-4, pp227-244, 1997.

McCaffery, F., McTear, M.F. and Murphy, M. (1998) A multimedia interface for circuit board assembly. In H.Bunt, R-J.Beun and T.Borghuis (eds.) Multimodal Human-Computer Communication: Systems, Techniques, and Experiments. Berlin: Springer Verlag, pp. 213 - 230. ISBN 3-540-64380-X.

McTear M (1998). Modelling spoken dialogues with state transition diagrams: experiences with the CSLU toolkit. Proc 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Dec 1998, Sydney, Australia, 1223-1226.

McTear, M. and O'Hare, E.O. (1998) Voice dictation in the secondary school classroom. Proc 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Dec 1998, Sydney, Australia, 2655-2658.

McTear, M. (1999) Using the CSLU toolkit for practicals in spoken dialogue technology. M.A.T.I.S.S.E. workshop on Method and Tool Innovations for Speech Science Education, April 1999, University College London, April 16 - 17, 113 - 116.

McTear, M. (1999) Software to support research and development of spoken dialogue systems. Proceedings of Eurospeech 99, Budapest, September 1999, pp. 339-342.

McTear, M. (1999) Curricula and Courseware in Spoken Language Engineering in Europe: a Critical Appraisal. Proceedings of Eurospeech 99, Budapest, September 1999, pp. 635-638.

O'Hare, E.O. and McTear, M. (1999). Speech recognition in the secondary school classroom: an exploratory study. Computers and Education: An International Journal. 33, No. 1, 27-45.

O'Neill, I.M. and McTear, M. (1999) An object-oriented approach to the design of dialogue management functionality. Proceedings of EACL '99, Bergen, 8-1`1 June, pp. 23-29.

Cai, D., McTEAR, M.F. and McCLEAN, S.I., Knowledge discovery in distributed databases using evidence theory, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, John Wiley & Sons, ISSN 0884-8173, 15, 8, pp745-762, 2000.

McTear, M., Conn, N. and Phillips, N. (2000) Speech Recognition Software: A Tool for People with Dyslexia. Proc 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Oct 2000, Beijing, China, Vol. 4, 81-84.

McTear, M. (2000) Intelligent Interface Technology: From Theory to Reality? Interacting with Computers Vol.12, No.4, pp. 323-336.

McTear, M., Allen, S., Clatworthy, L., Ellison, N., Lavelle, C. and McCaffery, H. (2000) Integrating Flexibility into a Structured Dialogue Model: Some Design Considerations. Proc 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Oct 2000, Beijing, China, Vol. 1, 110-113.

I.M. O'Neill & M.F. McTear (2000). Object-Oriented Modelling of Spoken Language Dialogue Systems. Natural Language Engineering, Best Practice in Spoken Language Dialogue System Engineering, Special Issue, Volume 6 Part 3 October 2000. Cambridge University Press. ISSN: 1351-3249