Publications

Research contributions in cognitive AI, language understanding, and human-robot collaboration

Books

Agents in the Long Game

Agents in the Long Game of AI

Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg, Jesse English

MIT Press, 2024 • Open Access

Linguistics for the Age of AI

Linguistics for the Age of AI

Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg

MIT Press, 2021 • Open Access

A Theory of Ellipsis

A Theory of Ellipsis

Marjorie McShane

Oxford University Press, 2005

Ontological Semantics

Ontological Semantics

Sergei Nirenburg, Victor Raskin

MIT Press, 2004

Earlier Foundational Works

Language Engineering for Lesser-Studied Languages

Language Engineering for Lesser-Studied Languages

Sergei Nirenburg (ed.)

IOS Press, 2009

An Innovative, Practical Approach to Polish Inflection

An Innovative, Practical Approach to Polish Inflection

Marjorie McShane

Lincom Europa, 2003

Readings in Machine Translation

Readings in Machine Translation

Sergei Nirenburg, Harold Somers, Yorick Wilks (eds.)

MIT Press, 2002

Progress in Machine Translation

Progress in Machine Translation

Sergei Nirenburg (ed.)

IOS Press, 1993

Machine Translation: A Knowledge-Based Approach

Machine Translation: A Knowledge-Based Approach

Sergei Nirenburg, Jaime Carbonell, Masaru Tomita, Kenneth Goodman

Morgan Kaufmann, 1992

KBMT-89: A Case Study in Knowledge-Based Machine Translation

KBMT-89: A Case Study in Knowledge-Based Machine Translation

Kenneth Goodman, Sergei Nirenburg (eds.)

Morgan Kaufmann, 1992

Machine Translation: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Machine Translation: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Sergei Nirenburg (ed.)

Cambridge University Press, 1987

Selected Papers

2025

  • 2025
    HARMONIC: Human-AI Robotic Team Member Operating with Natural Intelligence and Communication
    Oruganti, Nirenburg, McShane, English, Roberts, Arndt, Kamireddy, Seo, Gonzalez, Sentis
    ICRA 2025, Atlanta, GA
    arXiv
  • 2025
    A Neurosymbolic Approach to Authorship Anonymization
    McShane, Nirenburg, Arndt, Oruganti, English
    Cognitive Systems Research, Vol. 92
    DOI

2024

  • 2024
    HARMONIC: A Framework for Explanatory Cognitive Robots
    Oruganti, Nirenburg, McShane, English, Roberts, Arndt
    ICRA@40, Rotterdam
    arXiv
  • 2024
    Explaining Explaining
    Nirenburg, McShane, Goodman, Oruganti
    EXPLAINS 2024, Porto
    DOI
  • 2024
    Cognitive Modeling of Paraphrase for Authorship Anonymization
    McShane, Nirenburg, Arndt, Oruganti, English
    ACS 2024, Palermo
  • 2024
    Metacognitive AI: Framework and the Case for a Neurosymbolic Approach
    Wei, Shakarian, Lebiere, Draper, Krishnaswamy, Nirenburg
    NeSy 2024, Barcelona
  • 2024
    Mutual Trust in Human-AI Teams Relies on Metacognition
    Nirenburg, Ferguson, McShane
    Metacognitive AI, Cambridge UP
  • 2024
    Metacognitive AI
    Wei, Shakarian, Lebiere, Draper, Krishnaswamy, Sreedharan, Nirenburg
    Metacognitive Artificial Intelligence (Chapter), Cambridge UP

2023

  • 2023
    Content-Centric Computational Cognitive Modeling
    Nirenburg, McShane, English
    Advances in Cognitive Systems 10: 71-84
  • 2023
    Automating Knowledge Acquisition for Cognitive Agents Using LLMs
    Oruganti, Nirenburg, English, McShane
    AAAI Fall Symposium on Integrating Cognitive Architectures and Generative Models
  • 2023
    HeRoSwarm: Fully-Capable Miniature Swarm Robot Hardware Design
    Starks, Gupta, Oruganti, Parasuraman
    IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, Atlanta
  • 2023
    Natural Language Understanding and Generation
    McShane, Nirenburg
    Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences, Ch. 28
  • 2023
    Hybrid ML/KB Systems Learning Through NL Dialog with DL Models
    Nirenburg, Krishnaswamy, McShane
    AAAI 2023 Spring Symposium on ML and Knowledge Engineering
  • 2023
    Systems Design Concepts Mimicking Bio-inspired Self-Assembly
    Oruganti, Ardoin, Ibrahim, Parasuraman, Pidaparti
    ICORD 2023, IISc-Bangalore (Springer)

2021–2022

  • 2022
    Ephemeral Nature of Knowledge Shared Within Multiagent Systems
    Oruganti, Parasuraman, Pidaparti
    27th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics
  • 2021
    Overcoming the Knowledge Bottleneck Using Lifelong Learning
    Nirenburg, McShane, English
    NLDB-21, Saarbrücken
  • 2021
    Knowledge Engineering in the Long Game of AI: Speech Acts
    McShane, Nirenburg, English
    ACS 2021
  • 2021
    Artificial Intelligent Agents Go to School
    Nirenburg, English, McShane
    34th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning at IJCAI-21
  • 2021
    A Thinking Person's Primer on AI (Review)
    Nirenburg
    Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation 37(1):91-94

2019–2020

  • 2020
    OntoAgent: Implementing Content-Centric Cognitive Models
    English, Nirenburg
    ACS 2020
  • 2020
    Impact of Heterogeneity in Multi-Robot Systems on Collective Behaviors
    Oruganti, Parasuraman, Pidaparti
    IEEE SSRR 2020
  • 2019
    Context for Language Understanding by Intelligent Agents
    McShane, Nirenburg
    Applied Ontology 14:415-449
  • 2019
    XMRs: Uniform Semantic Representations for Cognitive Robots
    English, Nirenburg
    ACS Workshop on Cognitive Robotics
  • 2019
    A Response to "What Happened to Cognitive Science?"
    McShane, Bringsjord, Hendler, Nirenburg, Sun
    Topics in Cognitive Science
  • 2018
    Multi-Stage Language Understanding and Actionability
    McShane, Nirenburg, English
    Advances in Cognitive Systems 6: 1-20

2017–2018

  • 2018
    Toward Human-Like Robot Learning
    Nirenburg, McShane, Wood, Scassellati, Magnin, Roncone
    NLDB-18, Paris
  • 2018
    Toward Life-Long Human-Like Learning by Intelligent Agents
    Nirenburg, McShane, English
    ACS 2018, Stanford
  • 2017
    Cognitive Systems: Toward Human-Level Functionality
    Nirenburg
    AI Magazine 38(4): 5-12
  • 2017
    Toward Human-Style Learning in Robots
    Nirenburg, Wood
    AAAI Fall Symposium on Natural Communication with Robots

Selected Book Chapters

  • Forth
    Artificial Intelligence: History / Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics
    Nirenburg; McShane, Nirenburg
    International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Ed., Elsevier
  • 2016
    Natural Language Processing
    Nirenburg, McShane
    Oxford Handbook on Cognitive Science (S. Chipman, ed.)
  • 2015
    Cognitive Systems as Explanatory Artificial Intelligence
    Nirenburg
    Language Production, Cognition and The Lexicon, Springer
  • 2010
    Ontology, Lexicon and Fact Repository as Leveraged to Interpret Events of Change
    McShane, Nirenburg, Beale
    Ontologies and the Lexicon, Cambridge UP

Patents

  • 2024
    HARMONIC: Human-AI Robotic Team Member Operating with Natural Intelligence and Communication
    Nirenburg, McShane, Oruganti, English
    U.S. Patent Application No.: 63/698,801
  • 2014
    Clinical Training and Advice Based on Cognitive Agent with Psychological Profile
    Jarrell, Nirenburg, McShane, Beale, Fantry
    US Patent App. 13/656,688
  • 2012
    Techniques for Implementing Virtual Persons in Medical Training Systems
    Jarrell, Nirenburg, McShane, Beale
    US Patent 8,317,518