My research interests are in indigenous and endangered languages, dialogue systems, and bilingualism. See below for my presentations and publications in Computer Science and Linguistics. 

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
  1. Jacqueline Brixey and David Traum "Developing a spoken dialogue system for the Choctaw language." International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS), 21-24 February 2023. (link)
  2. Jacqueline Brixey and David Traum. "Towards an Automatic Speech Recognizer for the Choctaw language" 1st Workshop on Speech for Social Good, INTERSPEECH 2022. (link)
  3. Jacqueline Brixey and Ron Artstein. "ChoCo: a multimodal corpus of the Choctaw language". Language Resources and Evaluation Journal 2021. (link)
  4. Jacqueline Brixey and David Traum. "Masheli: A Choctaw-English Bilingual Chatbot". IWSDS 2020. (pdf)
    ***won best video award (video)
  5. Jacqueline Brixey, David Sides, Timothy Vizthum, David Traum, and Khalil Iskarous. "Exploring a Choctaw language corpus with word vectors and minimum distance length". LREC 2020. (pdf)
  6. Soheil Alavi, Jacqueline Brixey, and David Traum. "Can we use a spoken dialogue system to document endangered languages?". Dialog for Good (DIGO) 2019. (pdf)
  7. Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Jacqueline Brixey, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Ron Artstein, Kallirroi Georgila "DialEdit: Annotations for spoken conversational image editing''.14th Joint ACL-ISO workshop at COLING. 2018. (pdf) 
  8. Jacqueline Brixey, Eli Pincus and Ron Artstein. “Chahta anumpa: a Corpus of the Choctaw Language”. Submitted to Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2018. (pdf)
  9. Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Jacqueline Brixey, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Doo Soon Kim, Ron Artstein, and Kallirroi Georgila. “Edit me: A Corpus on Natural Language Image Editing”. Submitted to Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2018. (pdf)
  10. Jacqueline Brixey and Juliana J. Brixey. "What Do Nurses Ask About? A Review of Nursing Questions in a Brazilian Telemedicine System". Sigma Theta Tau International's 28th International Nursing Research Congress Proceedings. 30 July 2017. Dublin, Ireland.
  11. Jacqueline Brixey and David Novick. "Building rapport with extraverted and introverted agents”. IWSDS Proceedings. 7 June 2017. Farmington, PA. (link)
  12. Jacqueline Brixey. “Resumptive L1 Bilinguals: A conceptual framework”. WECOL/AZLS Proceedings. 8-10 Nov 2013. Tempe, AZ. (link)

BOOK CHAPTERS
  1. Joshua Rusow, Jacqueline Brixey, Rens Hoegen, Wei Lan, Karan Singla, Xusen Yin. "SHIHbot: Sexual Health Information on HIV/AIDS, chatbot". Chapter 12 in Artificial Intelligence for Social Welfare, Editors: Milind Tambe and Eric Rice.
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DEMOS 
  1. Jacqueline Brixey, David Traum. "Developing a spoken dialogue system for the Choctaw language". IWSDS. 2023. Los Angeles, USA. (pdf)
  2. Jacqueline Brixey, Rens Hoegen, Wei Lan, Joshua Rusow, Karan Singla, Xusen Yin, Ron Artstein, and Anton Leuski. "SHIHbot: A Facebook chatbot for Sexual Health Information on HIV/AIDS". SIGdial Proceedings. 17 August 2017. Saarbrücken, Germany. (pdf)

PRESENTATIONS
  1. Armida Hernandez and Jacqueline Brixey. "Indigenous language technology tools". Presented at 1st North American Center for Collaborative Development Conference - "Connecting Indigenous Peoples in North America: Crafting a Community of Shared Knowledge". 13 June 2017. Saskatchewan, Canada.
  2. Jacqueline Brixey. “Resuming L2 in Bilinguals”. Presented at WISSLR. 20 Mar 2015. London, Ontario, Canada.
  3. Jacqueline Brixey. “Resumptive L1 Bilinguals: A conceptual framework”. Presented at The University of Texas at El Paso 3rd Annual Graduate Research Expo. 7 Nov 2013. El Paso, TX.

POSTERS 
  1. Cindy Chang, Jacqueline Brixey, James Gibson and Morteza Dehghani. "Improving predictions of polite and frustrated speech using linguistic features associated with different cognitive states in children". Presented at Cognitive Science Society Conference 2018, 25-28 July 2018, Madison, WI.
  2. Cindy Chang, Jacqueline Brixey, James Gibson and Morteza Dehghani. "Using linguistic features influenced by cognitive mechanisms to identify polite and frustrated speech in children". Presented at Association for Psychological Science Conference, 24-27 May 2018.
  3. Jacqueline Brixey and Olac Fuentes. “Experimental Evaluation of Learning Algorithms and Text Representation Features to Classify Medical Queries in Brazilian Portuguese”. Presented at SACNAS. 17 Oct 2014. Los Angeles, California.
  4. Jacqueline Brixey, Juliana J. Brixey, Catherine Pepper. "The Internet: A Source of Near Real Time Infectious Disease Information". Presented at AMIA. 14-18 November 2015. San Francisco, CA


  INVITED LECTURES
  1. "​A Choctaw Morphology Generator”. Presented at UCLA's American Indian Linguistics Seminar, 1 May 2018.
  2. “Brazilian Portuguese Medical Queries”. Presented at UTHSC Nursing Talk. 26 March 2014. Online.
  3. “Resumptive Bilinguals: A conceptual framework”. Presented at Linguistics Colloquium. 1 Nov 2013. El Paso, TX

PATENTS
  1. Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Jacqueline Brixey, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Doo Soon Kim. "Natural language image editing annotation framework". Filed April 2018.

IN THE MEDIA
  1. Viterbi Magazine
  2. Washington Post
  3. Biskinik (pg 12)