Rodney D. Nielsen

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapter

• Mihalcea, R.F., Nielsen, R.D. (2015). Natural language processing in learning environments. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Technology. 534--536. Thousand Oaks, California, SAGE Publications, Inc..

Conference Proceeding

• Aiken, B., Kelly, J., Palmer, A.M., Polat, S.O., Kasicheyanula, T.R., Nielsen, R.D. (2019). Sigmorphon 2019 Task 2 system description paper: Morphological analysis in context for many languages, with supervision from only a few. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-4211.pdf
• Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2019). AI Meets Austen: Towards Human-Robot Discussions of Literary Metaphor. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. 7. Menlo Park, California, The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, (AAAI Press).
• Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2018). Automatically Generating Questions about Novel Metaphors in Literature. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG2018). 264--273. Tilburg, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). http://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-6533
• Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2018). Reading with Robots: Promoting Cognitive Exercise in Elderly Populations through Embodied Conversational Dialogue. The 2018 Connections in Smart Health Workshop. 1--. Arlington, VA, NSF.
• Alshammari, S., Nielsen, R.D. (2018). Less is More: With 280-character limit, Twitter Provides a Valuable Source for Detecting Self-reported Flu Cases. The International Conference Proceedings Series by ACM: Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Computing and Big Data (ICCBD 2018). 1--6. New York, NY, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3277105
• Nielsen, R.D. (2018). Machine Learning for Digital Library Applications. Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2018), Fort Worth, TX, USA, June 03-07, 2018. 421--422. New York, NY, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3197026.3201780
• Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2018). Detecting Sarcasm is Extremely Easy ;-). Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Semantics beyond Events and Roles (SemBEaR-2018), New Orleans, Louisiana, June 5, 2018. 21--26. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). http://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-1303
• Bulgarov, F., Nielsen, R.D. (2018). Proposition entailment in educational applications using deep neural networks. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, February 2-7, 2018. 5045--5052. Menlo Park, California, The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, (AAAI Press). https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI18/paper/download/17170/16785
• Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2018). Exploring the terrain of metaphor novelty: A regression-based approach for automatically scoring metaphors. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, February 2-7, 2018. 5366--5373. Menlo Park, California, The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, (AAAI Press). https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI18/paper/download/16120/16089
• Bulgarov, F., Nielsen, R.D. (2018). Proposition Entailment in Educational Applications Using Deep Neural Networks. The Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18) student papers track, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, February 2-7, 2018. 2. Menlo Park, California, The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, (AAAI Press).
• Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2018). Reading with Robots: Towards a Human-Robot Book Discussion System for Elderly Adults. Proceedings of The Twenty-Third AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, February 2-7, 2018. 8030--8031. Menlo Park, California, The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, (AAAI Press).
• Narouei, M., Khanpour, H., Takabi, H., Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2017). Towards a top-down policy engineering framework for attribute-based access control. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM on Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies. 103--114.
• Salma, N., Mai, B., Namuduri, K., Mamun, R., Hashem, Y., Takabi, H., Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2017). Using EEG Signal to Analyze IS Decision Making Cognitive Processes. NeuroIS 2017.
• Hashem, Y., Takabi, H., Dantu, R., Nielsen, R.D. (2017). A multi-modal neuro-physiological study of malicious insider threats. Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) International Workshop on Managing Insider Security Threats. 33--44. New York, New York, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3139923.3139930
• Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2017). Finding patterns in noisy crowds: Regression-based annotation aggregation for crowdsourced data. Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 1907--1912. Copenhagen, Denmark, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D17-1204
• Madala, K., Gaither, D.C., Nielsen, R.D., Do, H. (2017). Automated Identification of Component State Transition Model Elements from Requirements. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), 4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements (AIRE). 386--392. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• Narouei, M., Khanpour, H., Takabi, H., Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2017). Towards a top-down policy engineering framework for attribute-based access control. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM on Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2017). 103--114. New York, New York, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Salma, N., Mai, B., Namuduri, K., Mamun, R., Hashem, Y., Takabi, H., Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2017). Using EEG signal to analyze IS decision making cognitive processes. Proceedings of the Gmunden Retreat on NeuroIS 2017. 195--202. Winner of the Dr. Hermann Zemlicka Award for the most visionary paper,
• Bulgarov, F., Nielsen, R.D. (2017). Minimal meaningful propositions alignment in student response comparisons. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2017). 472--475.
• Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2017). #SarcasmDetection is soooo general! Towards a Domain-Independent Approach for Detecting Sarcasm. The Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Artificial Intelligence Researchers Society Conference (FLAIRS-17), Marco Island, Florida, May 22-24, 2017. 276--281. Menlo Park, California, The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, (AAAI Press). https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/FLAIRS/FLAIRS17/paper/view/15421/14939
• Godea, A., Bulgarov, F.A., Nielsen, R.D. (2016). Automatic generation and classification of minimal meaningful propositions in educational systems. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CoLING 2016). 3226--3236.
• Khanpour, H., Guntakandla, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2016). Dialogue act classification in domain-independent conversations using a deep recurrent Neural network. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CoLING 2016). 2012--2021.
• Parde, N., Hair, A., Papakostas, M., Tsiakas, K., Dagioglou, M., Karkaletsis, V., Nielsen, R.D. (2015). Grounding the meaning of words through vision and interactive gameplay. Proceedings of the Twenty Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015), Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015. 1895--1901. Menlo Park, California, The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, (AAAI Press). https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/15/Papers/269.pdf
• Papakostas, M., Tsiakas, K., Parde, N., Makedon, F., Karkaletsis, V., Nielsen, R.D. (2015). An Interactive Framework for Learning User-Object Associations through Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Corfu, Greece, July 1-3, 2015. 13:1--8. New York, NY, The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Mazidi, K.J., Nielsen, R.D. (2015). Leveraging multiple views of text for automatic question generation. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015). 257--266.
• Guntakandla, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2015). Modelling turn-taking in human conversations. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium on Turn-Taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction (AAAI SSS-15). The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, (AAAI Press), Menlo Park, California, USA.
• Parde, N., Papakostas, M., Tsiakas, K., Nielsen, R.D. (2015). "Is it rectangular?" Using I Spy as an interactive, game-based approach to multimodal robot learning. Proceedings of the Twenty Ninth Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI-15) Student Abstract and Poster Program. 4190--4191. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, (AAAI Press), Menlo Park, California.
• Parde, N., Papakostas, M., Tsiakas, K., Dagioglou, M., Karkaletsis, V., Nielsen, R.D. (2015). I Spy: An interactive game-based approach to multimodal robot learning.. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15) Conference Workshop on Knowledge, Skill, and Behavior Transfer in Autonomous Robots. 35--41. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, (AAAI Press), Menlo Park, California.

Journal Article

• Talbot III, R.M., Wylie, R., Dutilly, E., Nielsen, R.D. (2018). The Relationship between Format and Cognitive Depth of Science Teacher-Generated Questions. Research in the Schools. 35--46.
• Narouei, M., Takabi, H., Nielsen, R.D. (2018). Automatic extraction of access control policies from natural language documents. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 9. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8323229
• Dzikovska, M.O., Nielsen, R.D., Leacock, C. (2016). The joint student response analysis and recognizing textual entailment challenge: making sense of student responses in educational applications. Other. 50 (1) 67--93. Springer, Netherlands. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10579-015-9313-8
• Anderson, H.D., Pace, W.D., Brandt, E., Nielsen, R.D., Allen, R.R., Libby, A.M., West, D.R., Valuck, R.J. (2015). Monitoring suicidal patients in primary care using electronic health records. Other. 28 (1) 65--71. Am Board Family Med.
• Solomon, J.W., Nielsen, R.D. (2015). Predicting changes in systolic blood pressure using longitudinal patient records. Other. 58 S197--S202. Elsevier.

Poster

• Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2017). Reading with Robots: Towards an Intelligent Reading Companion that Promotes Cognitive Exercise in Older Adults. Peer Reviewed Poster at the 2017 Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference. Dallas, Texas, January 29-30, 2017.
• Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2016). Getting to the Heart of Metaphors: Dependency-based Detection of Metaphoric Juxtapositions. Poster at the 2016 CRA Women Graduate Cohort Workshop, San Diego, California, USA, April 15-16, 2016.
• Parde, N., Nielsen, R.D. (2015). An exploration in teaching robots through “I Spy” gameplay. The 2015 CRA-W Graduate Cohort Workshop, San Francisco, California, USA, April 10-11, 2015. Washington, DC, Computing Research Association.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Contract

• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), 1, P. (Other), 2, P. (Other), "Data Science Consulting," sponsored by Large Communications Company, International, $125000 Funded. (2019 - 2021).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), "Visuomotor integration and attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder," sponsored by NIH, Federal, $17500 Funded. (2019 - 2020).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), ""Expanding DARTNet to Conduct a Comparative Effectiveness Study on Major Depression", sub to CU-Boulder for computational semantics to detect mentions and severity of depression and suicide," sponsored by (AHRQ to) UCD-Health Science Center, Federal, $45142 Funded. (2010 - 2011).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), 1, P. (Other), 2, P. (Other), "Data Science Consulting," sponsored by Large Communications Company, International, Funded. (2019 - 2021).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), ""Expanding DARTNet to Conduct a Comparative Effectiveness Study on Major Depression", sub to CU-Boulder for computational semantics to detect mentions and severity of depression and suicide," sponsored by (AHRQ to) UCD-Health Science Center, Federal, Funded. (2010 - 2011).

Fellowship

• Parde, N. (Other), Nielsen, R.D. (Supporting), "NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program: Building a better agent: The next generation of teachable-agent technology," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $132000 Funded. (2014 - 2018).
• Parde, N. (Other), Nielsen, R.D. (Supporting), "NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program: Building a better agent: The next generation of teachable-agent technology," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, Funded. (2014 - 2018).

Grant - Research

• Miller, H.L. (Principal), Nielsen, R.D. (Supporting), "Visuomotor Integration and Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder," sponsored by NIH - NIMH, Federal, $942855 Funded. (2017 - 2022).
• Miller, H.L. (Principal), Nielsen, R.D. (Co-Principal), "Preliminary Assessment of Visuomotor Profiles in Hispanic Children with Autism," sponsored by NIH - NIMHD, Federal, $30000 Funded. (2018 - 2019).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), "IIS-1262860, Collaborative Research: Companionbots for Proactive Therapeutic Dialog on Depression," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $1118752 Funded. (2011 - 2016).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), Chi, M. (Co-Principal), Talbot, R., "R305A120808, Comprehension SEEDING: Comprehension through Self-Explanation, Enriched Discussion, and INquiry Generation," sponsored by Institute of Education Sciences, Department of Education, Federal, $1459275 Funded. (2011 - 2016).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Other), "MiPACQ: Multi-source Integrated Platform for Answering Clinical Questions," sponsored by NIH, Federal, $1000000 Funded. (2009 - 2011).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Other), "Improving Science Learning Through Tutorial Dialogs," sponsored by IES, Federal, $3100000 Funded. (2007 - 2011).
• Miller, H.L. (Principal), Nielsen, R.D. (Supporting), "Visuomotor Integration and Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder," sponsored by NIH - NIMH, Federal, Funded. (2017 - 2022).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), "Visuomotor integration and attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder," sponsored by University of North Texas Health Science, ST, Funded. (2019 - 2020).
• Miller, H.L. (Principal), Nielsen, R.D. (Co-Principal), "Preliminary Assessment of Visuomotor Profiles in Hispanic Children with Autism," sponsored by NIH - NIMHD, Federal, Funded. (2018 - 2019).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), "SHW: Large: Collaborative Research: Companionbots For Proactive Therapeutic Dialog On Depression," sponsored by National Science Foundation, FED, Funded. (2012 - 2016).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), "IIS-1262860, Collaborative Research: Companionbots for Proactive Therapeutic Dialog on Depression," sponsored by NSF, Federal, Funded. (2011 - 2016).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), "Comprehension SEEDING: Comprehension Through Self-Explanation Enhanced Discussion and Inquiry Generation," sponsored by U.S. Department of Education, FED, Funded. (2012 - 2016).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Principal), Chi, M. (Co-Principal), Talbot, R., "R305A120808, Comprehension SEEDING: Comprehension through Self-Explanation, Enriched Discussion, and INquiry Generation," sponsored by Institute of Education Sciences, Department of Education, Federal, Funded. (2011 - 2016).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Other), "MiPACQ: Multi-source Integrated Platform for Answering Clinical Questions," sponsored by NIH, Federal, Funded. (2009 - 2011).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Other), "Improving Science Learning Through Tutorial Dialogs," sponsored by IES, Federal, Funded. (2007 - 2011).

Sponsored Research

• Nielsen, R.D. (Supporting), "Extracting mineral rights from leases," sponsored by Lease Analytics, Private, $50000 Funded. (2017 - 2019).
• Specter, M. (Principal), Nielsen, R.D. (Co-Principal), "Inquiry and Critical Thinking Apps," sponsored by NetDragon, Private, $49603.64 Funded. (2017 - 2019).
• Nielsen, R.D. (Supporting), "Extracting mineral rights from leases," sponsored by Lease Analytics, Private, Funded. (2017 - 2019).