Kristina I. Striegnitz

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Steinmetz Hall 208

(518) 388-6554

striegnk@union.edu

Personal website

Department/Program:
Computer Science, Neuroscience

Publications

Books

Learn Prolog Now!: Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, Kristina Striegnitz; Texts in Computing, Vol.7, College Publications, 2006, ISBN 1-904987-17-6.; Companion website: www.learnprolognow.org

Journal Papers

The interactive Physical and Cognitive Exercise System (iPACES™): effects of a 3-month in-home pilot clinical trial for mild cognitive impairment and caregivers: Cay Anderson-Hanley, Jessica Stark, Kathryn M Wall, Marisa VanBrakle, Makenzie Michel, Molly Maloney, Nicole Barcelos, Kristina Striegnitz, Brian D Cohen, and Arthur F Kramer; Clinical Interventions in Aging 13, 2018.
The Enhanced Interactive Physical and Cognitive Exercise System (iPACES(TM) v2.0): Pilot Clinical Trial of an In-Home iPad-Based Neuro-Exergame for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): Kathryn Wall, Jessica Stark, Alexa Schillaci, Emilie T. Saulnier, Elizabeth McLaren, Kristina Striegnitz, Brian D. Cohen, Paul J. Arciero, Arthur F. Kramer, and Cay Anderson-Hanley; Journal of Clinical Medicine 7(9), 2018.
Neuropsychological Benefits of Neuro-exergaming for Older Adults: A Pilot Study of an Interactive Physical and Cognitive Exercise System (iPACES(TM)): Cay Anderson-Hanley, Molly Maloney, Nicole Barcelos, Kristina Striegnitz, Arthur Kramer; Journal of Aging and Physical Activity 25(1), 73-83, 2017.
Put my galakmid coin into the dispenser and kick it: Computational Linguistics and Theorem Proving in a Computer Game: Alexander Koller, Ralph Debusmann, Malte Gabsdil, and Kristina Striegnitz; Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 13 (2), 2004.
Relaxing Underspecified Semantic Representations for Reinterpretation: Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, Kristina Striegnitz; Grammars 3 (special issue for MOL '99), pp. 217-241, 2000.
Classifying Scope Ambiguities: Malte Gabsdil, Kristina Striegnitz; Journal of Language and Computation, Vol.1, No. 2 (special issue for ICoS-1), pp. 307-313, 2000.

Book Chapters

The First Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments: Koller, A., K. Striegnitz, D. Byron, J. Cassell, R. Dale, J. Moore, and J. Oberlander; In: E. Krahmer and M. Theune, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation, Volume 5980 of LNCS. Springer. 2010.
Knowledge representation for generating locating gestures in route directions: Kristina Striegnitz, Paul Tepper, Andrew Lovett, Justine Cassel; In: K. Coventry, T. Tenbrink, and J. Bateman (Eds.), Spatial Language in Dialogue. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Trading Spaces: How Humans and Humanoids use Speech and Gesture to Give Directions: Justine Cassell, Stefan Kopp, Paul A. Tepper, Kim Ferriman, Kristina Striegnitz; In: Toyoaki Nishida (ed.), Conversational Informatics: An Engineering Approach. Wiley, 2008.
Generating Bridging Definite Descriptions: Claire Gardent and Kristina Striegnitz; In: Harry Bunt and Reinhard Muskens (eds.), Computing Meaning Vol. 3. Springer, 2008.
Generating Definite Descriptions: Non-Incrementality, Inference and Data: Claire Gardent, Hélène Manuélian, Kristina Striegnitz, and Marilisa Amoia; In: T. Pechmann and C. Habel, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language Production. Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.
Type coercion from a natural language generation point of view: Markus Egg and Kristina Striegnitz; In: H. Härtel and H. Tappe, Mediating between Concepts and Grammar. Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.

Workshop and Conference Proceedings

Exposing real-world challenges using HRI in the wild.: Aaron G. Cass, Kristina Striegnitz, Nick Webb, and Venus Yu ('17); In: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob), 2018.
Determining appropriate first contact distance: trade-offs in human-robot interaction experiment design.: Cass, A., E. Rose, K. Striegnitz, and N. Webb; In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Social Robots for Public Settings at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015), Hamburg Germany, 2015.
A Collaborative Puzzle Game to Study Situated Dialog: Danise, A. and K. Striegnitz; In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Computation in Digital Entertainment at the Eighth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, October, 2012.
Referring in Installments: A Corpus Study of Spoken Object References in an Interactive Virtual Environment: Striegnitz, K., H. Buschmeier, and S. Kopp; In: Proceedings of the 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG), May, 2012.; SGIVE Corpus
The GIVE-2 Corpus of Instructions in Virtual Environments: Gargett, A., K. Garoufi, A. Koller, and K. Striegnitz; In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), May, 2010.
Validating the web-based evaluation of NLG systems: Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Donna Byron, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Johanna Moore, Jon Oberlander; Short Paper. In: Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Singapore, August, 2009.
The Software Architecture for the First Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments: Alexander Koller, Donna Byron, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Johanna Moore, Jon Oberlander, Kristina Striegnitz; System Description. In: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens, Greece, March/April, 2009.
Referring Expressions as Formulas of Description Logic: Carlos Areces, Alexander Koller, and Kristina Striegnitz; In: Proceedings of the 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Salt Fork, OH, June 2008.
Can computers Think? -- an introduction to computer science, programming, and artificial intelligence: Kristina Striegnitz and Valerie Barr; In: Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, Palo Alto, CA, March 2008.; slides
Giving Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE): A Challenge and an Evaluation Testbed for NLG: Donna Byron, Alexander Koller, Jon Oberlander, Laura Stoia, Kristina Striegnitz; In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation, Arlington, VA, April 2007.
Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions: Kristina Striegnitz, Paul Tepper, Andrew Lovett, Justine Cassell; In: Proceedings of the Workshop in Spatial Language and Dialogue 2005.
Two Kinds of Alternative Sets and a Marking Principle --- When to Say also: Kristina Striegnitz; In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Generation 2004. Presented in the Student Session.
Natural Language and Inference in a Computer Game: Malte Gabsdil, Alexander Koller, and Kristina Striegnitz; Proceedings of Coling 2002.
Generation as Dependency Parsing: Alexander Koller and Kristina Striegnitz; Proceedings of ACL 2002.
Playing With Description Logic -- Application Description: Malte Gabsdil, Alexander Koller, and Kristina Striegnitz; Proceedings of Methods for Modalities 2, Amsterdam, 2001.
Building a Text Adventure on Description Logic: Malte Gabsdil, Alexander Koller, and Kristina Striegnitz; Proceedings of KI-2001 Workshop on Applications of Description Logics, Vienna, 2001.
Model Checking for Contextual Reasoning in NLG: Kristina Striegnitz; Proc. of ICoS-3 (Inference in Computational Semantics), pp. 101-115, 2001.
Generating Indirect Anaphora: Claire Gardent and Kristina Striegnitz; Proc. of IWCS-4 (International Workshop on Computational Semantics), pp. 138-155, 2001.
Relaxing Underspecified Semantic Representations for Reinterpretation: Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, Kristina Striegnitz; Proc. of MOL (Mathematics of Language), pp. 73-87, 1999.
Classifying Scope Ambiguities: Malte Gabsdil, Kristina Striegnitz; Proc. of ICoS (Inference in Computational Semantics), pp. 125-131, 1999.

Theses

Generating Anaphoric Expressions --- Contextual Inference in Sentence Planning: Kristina Striegnitz; PhD thesis. Defended November 19, 2004.
On Modeling Meaning Shifts by Relaxing Underspecified Semantic Representations: Kristina Striegnitz; Diplomarbeit (Master's Thesis), 2000.

Edited Volumes

Proceedings of the ESSLLI-01 Student Session: Kristina Striegnitz (editor); ESSLLI-01 Student Session, Helsinki, 2001.; ESSLLI 2001 Student Session

Non-peer-reviewed Publications

Report on the Second Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2.5): Striegnitz, K., A. Denis, A. Gargett, K. Garoufi, A. Koller, and M. Theune; In: Proceedings of the Generation Challenges Session at the 13th European Workshop on Natural Generation Conference (INLG), Nancy, France, September, 2011.
Report on the Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2): Donna Byron, Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Johanna Moore and Jon Oberlander; In: Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010). July 2010.
Report on the First NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE): Donna Byron, Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Justine Cassell, Robert Dale, Johanna Moore and Jon Oberlander; In: Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009). Athens, Greece, March 2009.
Landmarks in Navigation Instructions for a Virtual Environment: Kristina Striegnitz and Filip Majda; In: Proceedings of the Workshop on the First NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-1). Athens, Greece, March 2009.
Instruction Giving in Virtual Worlds: Alexander Koller, Johanna Moore, Barbara di Eugenio, James Lester, Laura Stoia, Donna Byron, Jon Oberlander, and Kristina Striegnitz; In: Report on the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation. 2007.