Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings Downloads available on Google Scholar and ResearchGate
Sultan, Md A., S. Bethard, and T. Sumner. 2014. “DLS@CU: Sentence Similarity from Word Alignment.” In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014), Dublin, Ireland, 241-246, Winner of the Shared Task: Top Performing Algorithm.
Sultan, Md A., S. Bethard, and T. Sumner. 2014. “Towards Automatic Identification of Core Concepts in Educational Resources.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Libraries (DL 2014), London, United Kingdom (Sep 8 – 12, 2014): IEEE, 379-388.
Okoye, I., S. Bethard, and T. Sumner. 2013. “Automatic extraction of core learning goals and generation of pedagogical sequences through a collection of digital library resources.” In Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Indianapolis, IN (July 22-27): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 67-76
Sultan, Md. Arafat, S. Bethard, and T. Sumner. 2013. “DLS@CU-CORE: A Simple Machine Learning Model of Semantic Textual Similarity.” In Proceedings of the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Atlanta,GA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 176-180.
Foster, J., A. Sultan, H. Devaul, I. Okoye, and T. Sumner. 2012. “Identifying core concepts in educational resources.” In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL ’12), Washington, DC (June 10-14): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 35-42.
Maull, K., M.G. Saldivar, and T. Sumner. 2011. “Understanding digital library adoption: A use diffusion approach.” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011), Ottawa, Canada: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 259-68, Nominated for the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award.
Maull, K., M.G. Saldivar, and T Sumner. 2010. “Online Curriculum Planning Behavior of Teachers.” In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Pittsburgh, PA (June 11 – 13), 121-130, Nominated for the Best Paper Award.
Bethard, S., S. Ghosh, J. H. Martin, and T. Sumner. 2009. “Topic Model Methods for Automatically Identifying Out-of-Scope Resources.” In Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL ’09), Austin, TX (June 15-19): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 19-28.
Bethard, S., P. Wetzler, K. Butcher, J. Martin, and T. Sumner. 2009. “Automatically Characterizing Resource Quality for Educational Digital Libraries.” In Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009), Austin, TX (June 15-19): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 221-230, Winner of the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award.
de la Chica, Sebastian, F. Ahmad, J. Martin, and T Sumner. 2008. “Pedagogically useful extractive summaries for science education.” In Proceedings of the 22nd Meeting of the International Committee for Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008), Manchester, UK (August 18-22), 177-184.
Gu, Qianyi, S. de la Chica, F. Ahmad, H. Khan, and T. Sumner. 2008. “Personalization for using digital library resources to support intentional learning.” In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2008), Aarhus, Denmark (September 14-19): Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5713, Springer, 244-255.
Khan, H., K. Maull, and T. Sumner. 2008. “Curriculum Overlay Model for Embedding Digital Resources.” In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2008), Pittsburgh, PA (June 16-20): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 74-84.
Miaskiewicz, T., T. Sumner, and K. Kozar. 2008. “A Latent Semantic Analysis methodology for the identification and creation of personas.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Processing (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy (April 5-10): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 1501-1510.
Ahmad, F., S. de la Chica, K. Butcher, T. Sumner, and J. Martin. 2007. “Towards automatic conceptual personalization tools.” In Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2007), Vancouver, BC, Canada (June 17 – 22): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 452-461.
Sumner, T., and M. Marlino. 2004. “Digital Libraries and Educational Practice: A Case for New Models.” In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2004), edited by Mike Christel and Ee-Peng Lim, Tucson, AZ (June 7-11): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 170-178.
Sumner, T., M. Khoo, M. Recker, and M. Marlino. 2003. “Understanding educator perceptions of “quality” in digital libraries.” In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003), Houston, TX (May 27-31): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 269-279, Nominated for the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award.
Khoo, M., H. Devaul, and T. Sumner. 2002. “Functional requirements for groupware to support community-led collections building.” In Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology For Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002), Rome, Italy (September 16-18): Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2458, Springer, 190-203.
Marlino, M., T. Sumner, T. Boyd, K. Kelly, and M. Wright. 2002. “Expanding the scope of community-based digital libraries: The Digital Library for Earth System Education as a test case.” In Proceedings of the Digital Libraries, Advanced Methods and Technologies, Digital Collections: 4th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries (RCDL 2002), Dubna, Russia (Oct 15-17), 75-86.
Weatherley, J., T. Sumner, M. Khoo, M. Wright, and M. Hoffman. 2002. “Partnership reviewing: A cooperative approach for peer review of complex educational resources.” In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002), Portland, OR (July 14-18): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 106-14, Nominated for the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award.
Sumner, T., and M. Dawe. 2001. “Looking at Digital Library Usability from a Reuse Perspective.” In Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2001), Roanoke, VA (June 24-28): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 416-425.
Sumner, T., and S. Buckingham Shum. 1998a. “From documents to discourse: Shifting conceptions of scholarly publishing.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’98), Los Angeles, CA (April 18-23): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 95-102.
Sumner, T., and J. Taylor. 1998. “New media, new practices: Experiences in open learning course design.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’98), Los Angeles (April 18-23): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 432-439.
Sumner, T., and S. Buckingham Shum. 1998b. “A toolkit for publishing Web discussion documents: Design principles and case studies.” In Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Computer Human Interaction 1998 (APCHI 98), Shonan Village Center, Japan (July 15-17), 218-223.
Sumner, T., N. Bonnardel, and B. Kallak Harstad. 1997. “The cognitive ergonomics of knowledge-based design support systems.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, Georgia (March 22-27): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 83-90.
Yates, S., and T. Sumner. 1997. “Digital genres and the new burden of fixity.” In Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICCS 30), edited by G. Nunberg, Wailea, HA: IEEE Computer Press, 3-12.
Fischer, G., S. Lindstaedt, J. Ostwald, M. Stolze, T. Sumner, and B. Zimmermann. 1995. “From domain modeling to collaborative domain construction.” In Proceedings of the Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, & Techniques (DIS 95), Ann Arbor, MI (Aug 23-25): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 75 – 85.
Stahl, G., T. Sumner, and A. Repenning. 1995. “Internet repositories for collaborative learning: Supporting both students and teachers.” In Proceedings of Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL ’95), Indiana, IL (Oct 17-20), 321-328.
Sumner, T. , and M. Stolze. 1995. “Evolution, not revolution: PD in the toolbelt era.” In Proceedings of Computers in Context: Joining Forces in Design (CIC ’95), Aarhus, Denmark (Aug 14-18), 30-39.
Sumner, T. 1995. “The high-tech toolbelt: A study of designers in the workplace.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’95), Denver, CO (May 7 – 11): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 178-185.
Bonnardel, N., and T. Sumner. 1994. “From system development to system assessment: Exploratory study of the activity of professional designers.” In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics – ECCE’7, Human-Computer Interaction: From individuals to groups in work, leisure, and everyday life, Bonn, Germany (Sep 5-8), 23-36.
Nakakoji, K., T. Sumner, and B. Harstad. 1994. “Perspective-based critiquing: Helping designers cope with conflicts among design intentions.” In Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Design ’94, Lausanne, Switzerland: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 449-466.
Repenning, A., and T. Sumner. 1994. “Programming as problem solving: A participatory theater approach.” In Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI ‘94), Bari, Italy: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 182-191.
Fischer, G., K. Nakakoji, J. Ostwald, G. Stahl, and T. Sumner. 1993. “Embedding computer-based critics in the contexts of design.” In Proceedings of INTERCHI’93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (April 24-29): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 157-164.
Repenning, A., and T. Sumner. 1992. “Using agentsheets to create a voice dialog design environment.” In Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ’92), Kansas City, MO (March 1-3): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 1199-1207.
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Sultan, A. Md , S. Bethard, and T. Sumner. 2014. ‘Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence’, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2: 219-30.
Wetzler, P., S. Bethard, H. Leary, K. Butcher, S. Danesh, J. Zhao, J. H. Martin, and T. Sumner. 2013. ‘Characterizing and Predicting the Multi-faceted Nature of Quality in Educational Web Resources’, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 3: Article 15.
Maull, K. , M. G. Saldivar, and T. Sumner. 2012. ‘Automated Approaches to Characterizing Educational Digital Library Usage: Linking Computational Methodologies with Qualitative Analyses’, International Journal of Digital Libraries, 13: 51-64.
Okoye, I., K. Maull, J. Foster, and T. Sumner. 2012. ‘Educational Recommendation in an Informal Intentional Learning System.’ in Olga C. Santos and Jesus G. Boticario (eds.), Educational Recommender Systems and Technologies: Practices and Challenges (IGI Global: aDeNu Research Group, Spanish National University for Distance Education (UNED), Spain): 1-23.
Saldivar, M.G., K. Maull, B. Kirshner, and T. Sumner. 2012. ‘A two-dimensional framework for evaluataing teachers’ technology adoption.’ in M. Orey, S.A. Jones and R.M. Branch (eds.), Educational Media and Technology Yearbook (Springer: New York, NY): 49-65.
Butcher, K., and T. Sumner. 2011a. ‘How does prior knowledge impact students’ online learning behaviors?’, International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning, 1: Pages 1-18.
Butcher, K., and T. Sumner. 2011b. ‘Self-Directed Learning and the Sensemaking Paradox’, Human Computer Interaction, 26: Pages 123-59, Special Editors: Peter Pirolli and Dan Russel
Maull, K., M.G. Saldivar, and T. Sumner. 2011. ‘Using data mining to evaluate the instructional planning behaviors of science teachers’, Journal of Educational Data Mining, 3.
Ahmad, F., T. Sumner, and H. Devaul. 2009. ‘New Roles of Digital Libraries.’ in Yin-Leng Theng, Schubert Foo, Dion Dion Goh and Jin Cheon Na (eds.), Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development and Impact (Information Science Reference; 1 edition (January 30, 2009): Hershey, PA): 690.
Butcher, K., S. de la Chica, F. Ahmad, Q. Gu, T. Sumner, and J. Martin. 2009. ‘Conceptual Customization for Learning with Multimedia: Developing individual instructional experiences to support science understanding.’ in R. Zheng (ed.), Cognitive Effects of Multimedia Learning (IGI Publishing: New York, NY): 440.
Berkman, P., T. Walters, B. Daigle, M. Furlough, L. Johnston, M. Marlino, T. Sumner, K. Kelly, and M. Wright. 2008. Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (Emory University, Digital Library Publications: Atlanta, Georgia.
de la Chica, Sebastian, F. Ahmad, T. Sumner, J. Martin, and K. Butcher. 2008. ‘Computational foundations for personalizing instruction with digital libraries’, International Journal on Digital Libraries in the Special Issue on Digital Libraries and Education, 9: 3-18.
Marlino, M. , T. Sumner, K. Kelly, and M. Wright. 2008. ‘When the Music’s Over.’ in K. Skinner and M. Halbert (eds.), Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (Emory University Digital Library Publications Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA): 97-111.
Marlino, M., and T. Sumner. 2008. ‘From the Library to the Laboratory: A New Future for the Science Librarian.’ in R. Katz (ed.), The Tower and The Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing (EDUCAUSE: Boulder, CO): 190-97.
Jessup, E. , and T. Sumner. 2007. ‘Reflective Essay on the Replicability and Generalizability of the Technology for Community Course’, Annals of Research on Engineering Education, 3.
Wright, M., T. Sumner, R. Moore, T. Koch. 2007. ‘Connecting digital libraries to eScience: The future of scientific scholarship’, International Journal on Digital Libraries, 7: 1-4.
Butcher, K., S. Bhushan, and T. Sumner. 2006. ‘Multimedia displays for conceptual discovery: Information seeking with strand maps’, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal (Special Issue on Multimedia Technology for Education), 11: 236-48.
Gu, Q., F. Ahmad, and T. Sumner. 2005. ‘Resource discovery in distributed digital libraries through visual knowledge navigation’, Journal of Zhejiang University: Science, 6A: 1306-11.
Jessup, E. , and T. Sumner. 2005. ‘Design-Based Learning and the Participation of Women in IT’, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Special Issue on Gender and IT, 26: 141-47.
Jessup, E., T. Sumner, and L. Barker. 2005. ‘Report from the trenches: Implementing curriculum to promote the participation of women in computer science’, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 11: 273-94.
Sumner, T., F. Ahmad, S. Bhushan, Q. Gu, F. Molina, S. Willard, M. Wright, L. Davis, and G. Janee. 2005. ‘Linking learning goals and educational resources through interactive concept map visualizations’, International Journal on Digital Libraries, 5: 18-24.
Coleman, A., and T. Sumner. 2004. ‘Digital Libraries and User Needs: Negotiating the Future’, Journal of Digital Information, Special Issue on Digital Libraries and User Needs, 5, No. 3, Article No. 315.
Aivazian, B. L., E. Geary, T. Sumner, M. Khoo, and S. Ireton. 2003. ‘Serving K-12 education with the Digital Water Education Library (DWEL)’, Knowledge Quest, 31: 21-22.
Bonnardel, N., L. Lanzone, and T. Sumner. 2003. ‘Designing web sites: The cognitive processes of lay-designers’, Cognitive Science Quarterly, 3: 25-56.
Deniman, D., T. Sumner, L. Davis, S. Bhushan, and J. Fox. 2003. ‘Merging metadata and content-based retrieval’, Journal of Digital Information (JoDI), 4.
Sumner, T., S. Buckingham-Shum, and S.J. Yates. 2003. ‘Processes, tools, and techniques for managing persistent discourse, 2nd Edition.’ in W. Jones (ed.), E-Serials: Publishers, Libraries, Users, and Standards (MIT Press: Cambridge, MA): 197-216.
Sumner, T.. 2002. ‘Promoting Scholarship Through Design.’ in W. Dutton and B. Loader (eds.), Digital Academe: The New Media and Institutions of Higher Education and Learning (Routledge: London, UK): 135-51.
Sumner, T., M. Dawe, and H. Devaul. 2002. ‘Creating reusable educational components: Lessons from Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)’, Journal of Geoscience Education, 50: 25-30.
Buckingham Shum, S., and T. Sumner. 2001. ‘JIME: An interactive journal for interactive media’, First Monday, 6.
Marlino, M., T. Sumner, D. Fulker, C. Manduca, and D. Mogk. 2001. ‘The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE): Building community, building the library’, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Special Issue on Digital Libraries, 44: 80-81.
Sumner, T.. 2000. ‘Promoting scholarship through design’, Information, Communication & Society, 3: 597-615.
Sumner, T., S. Buckingham Shum, M. Wright, N. Bonnardel, A. Chevalier, and A. Piolat. 2000. ‘Redesigning the peer review process: A developmental theory-in-action.’ in R. Dieng, A. Giboin, L. Karsenty and G. De Michelis (eds.), Designing Cooperative Systems: The Use of Theories and Models (IOS Press: Amsterdam): 19-34.
Taylor, J., M. Woodman, T. Sumner, and C.T. Blake. 2000. ‘Peering through a glass darkly: Integrative Evaluation of an Online Course’, Educational Technology & Society, 3.
Buckingham Shum, S., and T. Sumner. 1998. ‘New scenarios in scholarly publishing and debate.’ in M. Eisenstadt and T. Vincent (eds.), The Knowledge Web (Kogan Page: London): 135-51.
Fischer, G., K. Nakakoji, J. Ostwald, G. Stahl, and T. Sumner. 1998a. “Embedding critics in design environments.” In Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces, edited by M. Maybury and W. Wahlster, 537-61. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman Press.
Fischer, G., K. Nakakoji, J. Ostwald, G. Stahl, and T. Sumner. 1998b. ‘Embedding critics in design environments.’ in M. T Maybury and W. Wahlster (eds.), Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann Press, Reprint: The Knowledge Engineering Review: San Francisco): 537-59.
Spohrer, J., T. Sumner, and S. Buckingham Shum. 1998. ‘Educational authoring tools and the educational object economy: Introduction to this special issue from the East/West Group’, Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 98.
Sumner, T., and J. Taylor. 1998. ‘Media Integration through meta-learning environments.’ in Marc Eisenstadt and Tom Vincent (eds.), The Knowledge Web (Kogan Page: London): 63-78.
Taylor, J., T. Sumner, and A. Law. 1998. ‘Talking about multimedia: A layered design framework’, Journal of Educational Media, 23: 215-41.
Sumner, T, and M. Stolze. 1997. ‘Evolution, not revolution: Participatory design in the toolbelt era.’ in M. Kyng and L. Mathiassen (eds.), Computers and Design in Context (MIT Press: Cambridge): 1-26.
Bonnardel, N., and T. Sumner. 1996. ‘Supporting evaluation in design’, Acta Psychologica, 91: 221-44.
Sumner, T. , and M. Stolze. 1996. ‘Integrating working and learning: Two models of computer support’, AI & Society, 10: 70-78.
Repenning, A., and T. Sumner. 1995. ‘Agentsheets: A medium for creating domain-oriented visual languages’, IEEE Computer (Special Issue on Visual Programming), 28: 17-25.
Stahl, G., T. Sumner, and R. Owen. 1995. ‘Share globally, adapt locally: Software assistance to locate and tailor curriculum posted to the Internet’, Computers in Education, 24: 237-46.
Fischer, G., K. Nakakoji, J. Ostwald, G. Stahl, and T. Sumner. 1993. ‘Embedding critics in design environments’, The Knowledge Engineering Review Journal, 8: 285-307.