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- Lasecki, W.S., Bigham, J.P., Allen, J.F., and Ferguson, G. (2012)
Real-time Collaborative Planning with the Crowd. In Proceedings of the
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI
2012). Toronto, Canada.
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- Swift, M., Ferguson, G., Galescu, L., Chu, Y., Harman, C.
Jung, H., Perera, I., Song, Y. S., Allen, J., and Kautz, H.
(2012).
A multimodal corpus for integrated language and action.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on MultiModal
Corpora for Machine Learning, pp. 14-17, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Blaylock, N., de Beaumont, W., Galescu, L., Jung, H., Allen, J.,
Ferguson, G., and Swift, M. (2012). Play-by-play learning for textual
user interfaces. In Applied Natural Language Processing:
Identification, Investigation, Resolution, McCarthy, P. M., and
Boonthum-Denecke, C. (eds.), pp. 351-364. IGI Global.
[doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-741-8]
- Ferguson, G., and Allen, J. (2011). A Cognitive Model for
  Collaborative Agents. Proceedings of the AAAI 2011 Fall Symposium
  on Advances in Cognitive Systems. Washington, DC.
  [PDF]
- Jung, H., Allen, J., de Beaumont, W., Blaylock, N., Ferguson, G.,
  Galescu, L., Swift, M. (2010). Going Beyond PBD: A Play-by-Play and
  Mixed-initiative Approach. No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to
  Transform the Web, Cypher, A., Dontcheva, M., Lau, T., and Nichols,
  J. (eds.). Morgan Kaufmann.
- Blaylock, N., de Beaumont, W., Galescu, L., Jung, H., Allen, J.,
  Ferguson, G., and Swift, M. (2010). Learning Collaborative Tasks on
  Textual User Interfaces. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third
  International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society
  Conference (FLAIRS-23). Daytona Beach, FL. May 19-21.
  [PDF]
  
- Ferguson, G., Quinn, J., Horwitz, C., Swift, M., Allen, J., and
  Galescu, L. (2010). Towards A Personal Health Management
  Assistant. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 43(5): S13-S16.
  [doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2010.05.014]
- Ferguson, G., Allen, J., Galescu, L., Quinn, J., and Swift,
  M. (2009). CARDIAC: An Intelligent Conversational Assistant for
  Chronic Heart Failure Patient Heath Monitoring. Proceedings of the
  AAAI Fall Symposium on Virtual Healthcare Interaction, Arlington,
  VA, November.
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- Galescu, L., Allen, J., Ferguson, G., Quinn, J., and Swift,
  M. (2009). Speech Recognition in a Dialogue System for Patient
  Health Monitoring. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
  Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM-2009) Workshop on NLP Approaches
  for Unmet Information Needs in Health Care Submission, Washington,
  DC, November.
  [PDF]
  
- Jung, H., Allen, J., de Beaumont, W., Blaylock, N., Ferguson, G.,
  Galescu, L., and Swift, M. (2009) Going beyond PBD: A Play-by-Play
  and Mixed-initiative Approach. Proceedings of the CHI Workshop on
  End User Programming for the Web, Boston, MA, April.
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- Ferguson, G., and Allen, J. (2007). Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Systems for
  Collaborative Problem-Solving. AI Magazine 28(2):23-32,
  Special Issue on Mixed-Initiative Assistants. AAAI Press.
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- Allen, J., Chambers, N., Ferguson, G., Galescu, L., Jung, H.,
Swift, M., and Taysom, W. (2007). PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning
Agent. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-07): 1514-1519. Vancouver, Canada, Jul
22-26. Outstanding paper award winner.
  [pdf]
- Allen, J., Ferguson, G., Blaylock N., Byron, D., Chambers, N.,
  Dzikovska, M., Galescu, L., and Swift, M. (2006). Chester: Towards a
  Personal Medication Advisor. Journal of Biomedical
  Informatics 39(5):500-513. Elsevier.
  [PDF]
- Ferguson, G., and Allen, J. (2005). Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Systems for
  Collaborative Problem-Solving. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall
  Symposium on Mixed-Initiative Problem Solving Assistants (FS-05-07),
  Washington, DC, Nov 4 - 6, 57-62.
[PDF]
- Brown, C. M., Ferguson, G., Barnum, P., Hu, B., and
Costello, D. (2005). Quagents: A Game Platform for Intelligent Agents.
Proceedings of the First Artificial Intelligence and Digital
 Entertainment Conference (AIIDE-2005), Marina del Rey, CA, May 31 -
 June 2, 9-14.
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- Brown, C.M., Barnum, P., Costello, D., Ferguson, G., Hu, B., and
 Van Wie, M. (2004). Quake II as a Robotic and
 Multi-Agent Platform. Technical Report 853, University of
 Rochester Computer Science Department, October.
[PDF]
- Blaylock, N., Allen, J., and Ferguson, G. (2003). Managing communicative
 intentions with collaborative problem solving. In Ronnie
 Smith and Jan van Kuppevelt, editors, Current and New Directions
 in Discourse and Dialogue, Kluwer Series on Text, Speech
 and Language Technology, vol 22, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 63-84.
 [PDF]
 - Allen, J. and Ferguson, G. (2002) Human-Machine Collaborative
 Planning. Proceedings of the Third International
 NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, Houston, TX,
 October 27-29.
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- Allen, J., Blaylock, N., and Ferguson, G. (2002).
 A Problem Solving Model for Collaborative Agents.
 Proceedings of the Conference on Autonomous Agents
 and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-02), Bologna, Italy, July
 31-August 2, 774-781.
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- Ferguson, G., Allen, J., Blaylock, N., Byron, D., Chambers, N.,
 Dzikovska, M., Galescu, L., Shen, X., Swier, R., and Swift,
 M. (2002).  The Medication Advisor Project: Preliminary Report,
 Technical Report 776, Dept. of Computer Science, University of
 Rochester, May.
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 - James Allen, Donna Byron, Myroslava Dzikovska, George Ferguson,
 Lucian Galescu, and Amanda Stent,
 "Towards Conversational Human-Computer Interaction,"
 AI Magazine 22(4), pages 27-38, Winter, 2001.
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- James Allen, George Ferguson, and Amanda Stent,
 "An architecture for more realistic conversational systems,"
 in Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces 2001 (IUI-01),
 pages 1-8, Santa Fe, NM, January 14-17, 2001.
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 - James Allen, George Ferguson, Bradford W. Miller, Eric K. Ringger,
 and Teresa Sikorski Zollo, "Dialogue Systems: From Theory to Practice
 in TRAINS-96," in Handbook of Natural Language Processing,
 Robert Dale, Hermann Moisl, and Harold Somers, editors. Marcel Dekker,
 New York. 2000. Pp. 347-376.
 
- James Allen, Donna Byron, Myroslava Dzikovska, George Ferguson,
 Lucian Galescu, and Amanda Stent,
 "An Architecture for a Generic Dialogue Shell,"
 Journal of Natural Language Engineering, special issue on Best
 Practices in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems Engineering,
 6(3), December, 2000, pp. 1-16.
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- Mark Burstein, George Ferguson, and James Allen, Integrating
 Agent-Based Mixed-Initiative Control with an Existing Multi-Agent
 Planning System, Technical Report 729, Computer
      Science Dept., University of Rochester, May 2000. 
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- Mark Burstein, George Ferguson, and James Allen, Integrating
 Agent-Based Mixed-Initiative Control with an Existing Multi-Agent
 Planning System, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference
 on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-2000), Boston, MA, 389-390.
 - George Ferguson and James Allen,
 "TRIPS: An Intelligent Integrated Problem-Solving Assistant," in
 Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial
 Intelligence (AAAI-98),
 Madison, WI, 26-30 July 1998,
 pp. 567-573.
 [PDF]
- James F. Allen and George Ferguson, ``Actions and Events in
 Interval Temporal Logic,'' in Oliveiro Stock (ed.), Spatial and
 Temporal Reasoning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, pp. 205--245.
 - David Traum, Lenhart K. Schubert, Massimo Poesio, Nat Martin,
    Marc Light, Chung Hee Hwang, Peter Heeman, George Ferguson, and
    James F. Allen, ``Knowledge representation in the TRAINS-93
    conversation system,'' Intl. Journal of Expert Systems,
    9(1), Special Issue on Knowledge Representation and Inference for
    Natural Language Processing, 1996, pp. 173--223.
 
- George M. Ferguson, James F. Allen, Brad W. Miller and Eric K. Ringger,
    The Design and Implementation of the TRAINS-96 System: A
    Prototype Mixed-Initiative Planning Assistant, TRAINS
    Technical Note 96-5, Computer Science Dept., University of
    Rochester, October 1996.
 [Postscript]
 
- David Traum, Lenhart Schubert, Massimo Poesio, Nathaniel Martin,
 Marc Light, Chung Hee Hwang, Peter Heeman, George Ferguson, and James
 Allen, Knowledge Representation in the TRAINS-93 Conversation
 System, TRAINS Technical Note 96-4 and Technical Report 633,
 Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, August 1996. 
 [Postscript]
 
- George Ferguson, James Allen, and Brad Miller,
    "TRAINS-95: Towards a Mixed-Initiative Planning Assistant," in
    Proceedings of the Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    Planning Systems (AIPS-96), Edinburgh, Scotland, 29-31 May 1996,
    pp. 70-77.
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- James F. Allen, George Ferguson, and Lenhart K. Schubert,
 ``Planning in Complex Worlds via Mixed-Initiative Interaction,''
 Advanced Planning Technology: Technological Achievements of the
 ARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative, AAAI Press, 1996,
 pp. 53--60.
 - James F. Allen, George Ferguson, Brad Miller, and Eric Ringger, "TRAINS as an Embodied Natural Language Dialog System," in Embodied Language and Action: Papers from the 1995 Fall Symposium, AAAI Technical Report FS-95-05.
 
- George Ferguson,
    Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Mixed-Initiative
    Planning, Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, February, 1995. Available as URCS TR 562, January, 1995.
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- James F. Allen, George Ferguson, Bradford W. Miller, and Eric K. Ringger,
    "Spoken Dialogue and Interactive Planning," in
    Proceedings of the 1995 ARPA Spoken Language Systems Technology
    (SLST) Workshop, Austin, Texas, January 1995.
 
- James F. Allen, Lenhart K. Schubert, George Ferguson, Peter
    Heeman, Chung Hee Hwang, Tsuneaki Kato, Marc Light, Nathaniel G.
    Martin, Bradford W. Miller, Massimo Poesio, and David R. Traum,
    "The TRAINS Project: A case study in building a
    conversational planning agent," Journal of Experimental
    and Theoretical AI, 7(1995), 7-48. Also available as
    TRAINS Technical Note 94-3 and Technical Report 532, Computer
    Science Dept., University of Rochester, September 1994.
 [Postscript]
 - Massimo Poesio, George Ferguson, Peter Heeman, Chung Hee Hwang,
    David R. Traum, James F. Allen, Nathaniel Martin, and Lenhart K.
    Schubert,
    "Knowledge Representation in the TRAINS System," in
    Proceedings of the AAAI 1994 Fall Symposium on Knowledge
    Representation for Natural Language Processing in Implemented
    Systems, New Orleans, LA, November 1994.
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- James Allen, Lenhart Schubert, George Ferguson, Peter Heeman, Chung Hee Hwang, Tsuneaki Kato, Marc Light, Nathaniel Martin, Bradford Miller, Massimo Poesio, David Traum, The TRAINS Project: A Case Study in Defining a Conversational Planning Agent, TRAINS Technical Note 94-3 and Technical Report 532, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, September 1994.
 [Postscript]
 
- George Ferguson and James F. Allen,
    "Arguing About Plans: Plan Representation and Reasoning for
    Mixed-Initiative Planning,"
    Proceedings of the Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    Planning Systems (AIPS-94), Chicago, IL, 13-15 July, 1994, pp.
    43-48.
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- James F. Allen and George Ferguson,
    "Events and Actions in Interval Temporal Logic,"
    Journal of Logic and Computation 4(5):531-579, Special
    Issue on Actions and Processes, October, 1994. Also available as
    URCS Technical Report 521, July 1994.
 [Postscript]
 
- David R. Traum, James F. Allen, George Ferguson, Peter A. Heeman,
    Chung Hee Hwang, Tsuneaki Kato, Nathaniel Martin, Massimo Poesio,
    and Lenhart K. Schubert,
    "Integrating Natural Language Understanding and Plan Reasoning in
    the TRAINS-93 Conversation System," in
    Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Active NLP, 21-23
    March, 1994.
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 - George Ferguson and James F. Allen,
    ``
    Cooperative Plan Reasoning for Dialogue Systems (Position Paper),''
    AAAI Fall Symposium on Human-Computer Collaboration, Raleigh NC,
    22-24 October 1993.
 
- George Ferguson and James F. Allen,
    ``
    Generic Plan Recognition for Dialogue Systems,''
    ARPA Workshop on Human Language Technology, Princeton, NJ,
    21-23 March, 1993.
 - George M. Ferguson,
    Explicit Representation of Events, Actions and Plans for
    Assumption-Based Plan Reasoning,
    Technical Report 428, Computer Science Dept., University of
    Rochester, June 1992.
 [Postscript]
 
- George Ferguson,
    Domain Plan Reasoning in TRAINS-90,
    TRAINS Technical Note 91-2, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, June 1992.
 - George M. Ferguson,
  Identity and Skolem Functions in Resolution-Based Hypothetical Reasoning,
  M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Spring, 1989.  
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