G. Leroy and G. De Leo, "The PixTalk Communication System a Smartphone Application and Companion Website for the Improvement of Communication Skills of Children with Autism", mHealth Summit, November 9-10, Washington, DC.[pdf]

G. Leroy, "Persuading Consumers to Form Precise Search Engine Queries", American Medical Informatics (AMIA) Fall Symposium, San Francisco, November 14-18, 2009.[pdf pre-print][AMIA Presentation]

C. Gonzales, G. Leroy, G. De Leo, "Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technologies", Handbook of Research on Developments in e-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives, Eds, M. Manuela Cunha, Antonio Tavares and Ricardo Simoes, Accepted for Publication, 2009.[pdf]

G. De Leo, C. Gonzales, P. Battagiri and G. Leroy, "A Touch-Screen Smarphone Application and An Online Community for the Improvement of the Communication of Children with Severe Autism and for the Support of Their Teachers and Therapists," 8th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 7-9, 2009.

A. Iriberri and G. Leroy, "A Life Cycle Perspective on Online Community Success", ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Computing Surveys, 41 (2), Article 11, 2009.[pdf]

A. Keselman, C. Arnott Smith, G. Divita, H. Kim, A. Browne, G. Leroy, Q. Zeng-Treitler, "Consumer Health Concepts that do not Map to the UMLS: Where Do They Fit?, " Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 15(4), 496-505, 2008.

M. Kwak, W. Kang, G. Leroy,  and S. Chatterjee, "E-Transcript Web Services System Supporting Dynamic Conversion Between XML and EDI", 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2008 Toronto, Ontario, 14-17 August, 2008. [pdf]

K. Al-Busaidi, L. Olfman, T. Ryan, G. Leroy, "The Motivators and Benefits of Sharing Knowledge to a KMS Repository in an Omani Organization", 10th IBIMA conference, Malaysia, June 30th-July 2nd, 2008.[pdf]

G. DeLeo and G. Leroy, "Smartphones to Facilitate Communication and Improve Social Skills of Children with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder: Special Education Teachers as Proxies", Seventh International Conference on Interaction Design & Children, June 11-13, 2008, Chicago, USA. [pdf]

A. Iriberri, C.H. Ku , and G.Leroy, Enabling Synergy between Psychology and Natural Language Processing for e-Government: Crime Reporting and Investigative Interview System,  Ninth International Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O 2008), May 18-21, 2008, Montreal, Canada. (poster) [pdf]

C. H. Ku, A. Iriberri, and G.Leroy, "Natural Language Processing and e-Government: Crime Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Data Sources," Ninth International Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O 2008), May 18-21, 2008, Montreal, Canada.[pdf]

C. H. Ku, A. Iriberri, and G.Leroy, "Crime Information Extraction from Police and Witness Narrative Reports," 2008 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, May 12-13, 2008, Boston. [pdf]

G. Leroy, K. M. Tolle, L. Perkins, "Women and Technology: Reversing the Trends of Attrition and Obtaining a Balance", Women's Studies, 37, 173-175, 2008.(Editorial) [pdf]

G. Leroy and G. De Leo, "Mobile Communication and Data Gathering Software for Autistic Children and Their Caregivers", Positive Design, Monterrey, Mexico, April 2008.[pdf]

G. Leroy, T. Miller, G. Rosemblat, and A. Browne, "A Balanced Approach to Health Information Evaluation: A Vocabulary-based Naïve Bayes Classifier and Readability Formulas," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) , 59 (9), 1409-1419, 2008.[pdf]

T. Miller and G. Leroy, “Dynamic Generation of a Health Topics Overview from Consumer Health Information Documents”, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology," 4 (1), 395-414, 2008. [pdf]

G. Leroy, M. Fiszman, and T.C. Rindflesch, "The Impact of Directionality in Predications on Text Mining," Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-41), January 2008. [pdf]

G. Leroy, "Improving Health Literacy with Information Technology", in Encyclopaedia of Healthcare Information Systems, N. Wickramasinghe, Ed.: Idea Group, Inc, 2008. [pdf]

G. Leroy, G. De Leo, F. Moss, J. Fryer, and S. M. Robb, "An Online Community for Teachers to Support, Observe, Collect and Evaluate Assisted Communication with Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders who use Smartphones as Communication Devices," Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition, October 12-13,2007, Rochester, New York.

A. Iriberri and G. Leroy "Natural Language Processing and e-Government: Extracting Reusable Crime Report Information", IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2007),  August 13-15, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. [pdf]

E. Sloane, G. Leroy and S. Sheetz, "An Integrated Social Actor and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Approach for Improved Electronic Health Record (EHR) Privacy and Confidentiality in the US National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN)", Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Keystone, Colorado, USA, August 9-12, 2007.

J. Gutierrez and G. Leroy, "Predicting Crime Reporting with Decision Trees and the National Crime Victimization Survey", Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Keystone, Colorado, USA, August 9-12, 2007.[pdf]

G. Leroy, J. Xu, W. Chung, S. Eggers and H. Chen, "An End User Evaluation of Query Formulation and Results Review Tools in Three Medical Meta-Search Engines," International Journal of Medical Informatics, Forthcoming. [corrected proof]

G. Leroy and H. Chen, "Introduction to the Special Issue on Decision Support in Medicine," Decision Support Systems, 43, 1203-1206, 2007. [corrected proof]

K. Al-Busaidi, L. Olfman, T. Ryan, and G. Leroy, "Revealing the Antecedents and Benefits of KMS Use: An Exploratory Study in a Petroleum Company in Oman", Ninth International Conference on Decision Support Systems, January 2-4, 2007, Kolkata, India, 2007. [pdf]

T. Miller, G. Leroy, S. Chatterjee, J. Fan, and B. Thoms, "A Classifier to Evaluate Language Specificity in Medical Documents", Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2007. (Best Paper Award) [pdf]

T. Miller, G. Leroy, and E. Wood, "Dynamic Generation of a Table of Contents with Consumer-Friendly Labels", American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, Washington DC, November 11-15, 2006.[pdf]

G. Leroy, E. Eryilmaz, and B. T. Laroya, "Health Information Text Characteristics", American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, Washington DC, November 11-15, 2006. (Nominated for Distinguished Paper Award) [pdf]

G. Leroy, A. Irmscher, and M.H. Charlop-Christy, "Data Mining Techniques to Study Therapy Success with Autistic Children", 2006 International Conference on Data Mining, 26 - 29 June 2006, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA. [pdf]

T. Miller, G. Leroy, J. Huang, S. Chuang,  and M.H. Charlop-Christy, “Using a Digital Library of Images for Communication: Comparison of a Card-Based System to PDA Software”, First International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST), February 2006, Claremont. [pdf]

A. Iriberri, G. Leroy, N. Garrett, "Reporting on-Campus Crime Online: User Intention to Use", Hawaii International Conference On Systems Sciences (HICSS), January 2006. [pdf]

G. Leroy, J. Huang, S. Chuanga, M. Charlop-Christy, "Communication Software using Pictures for use with Pocket PCs," American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium, October 22-26, Washington DC. [online]

G. Leroy, J. Huang, S. Chuang, M. Charlop-Christy, "Non-Verbal Communication with Autistic Children using Digital Libraries", IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Bulletin, Online.

G. Leroy, S. Chuang, J. Huang, and M. Charlop-Christy, "Digital Libraries on Handhelds for Autistic Children," presented at the Fifth ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL-2005), June 7-11, 2005, Denver, Colorado. [pdf]

D. M. McDonald , H. Su, J. Xu, C.-J. Tseng, H. Chen, and G. Leroy, "Genepathway Text Mining and Visualization," in Medical Informatics: Advances in Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine , Eds. H. Chen, S. Fuller, and A. McCray, 2005.

G. Leroy and T.C. Rindflesch, "Effects of Information and Machine Learning Algorithms on Word Sense Disambiguation with Small Datasets," International Journal of Medical Informatics, 74, 7-8, 573-585, 2005. [pdf]

G. Leroy and H. Chen, "Genescene: An Ontology-enhanced Integration of Linguistic and Co-occurrence based Relations in Biomedical Texts," Journal of the American Society for Information Systems and Technology (JASIST), 56 (5), 457-468, March 2005. [pdf]

 

2004

G. Leroy and T. C. Rindflesch. "Using Symbolic Knowledge in the UMLS to Disambiguate Words in Small Datasets with a Naive Bayes Classifier," MedInfo, San Francisco, September 2004. [pdf]

G. Leroy, T. C. Rindflesch, B. Libbus, H. Kilicoglu, and  H. Chen, "A Syntactic Parser with Semantic Filtering for Biomedical Text," Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 2004. [pdf]

G. Leroy, A. Lally, and H. Chen. “The Use of Dynamic Contexts to Improve Casual Internet Searching,” ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM -TOIS), vol. 21 (3), pp 229-253, July 2003. [pdf]

G. Leroy, H. Chen, and J. D. Martinez. “A Shallow Parser Based on Closed-Class Words to Capture Relations in Biomedical Text,” Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), vol. 36, pp 145-158, June 2003. [pdf]

G. Leroy, H. Chen, J. Martinez, S. Eggers, R. Falsey, K. Kislin, Z. Huang, J. Li, J. Xu, D. McDonald, and G. Ng. “Genescene: Biomedical Text and Data Mining,” presented at the Third ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), May 27-31, 2003, Houston, Texas. [pdf]

G. Leroy, H. Chen, J. D. Martinez, S. Eggers, R. R. Falsey, K. L. Kislin, Z. Huang, J. Li, J. Xu, D. M. McDonald, and G. Ng. “Genescene: Biomedical Text and Data Mining, “ presented at the Third ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL-2003), May 27-31, 2003, Houston, Texas [pdf]

G. Leroy and H. Chen. “MedTextus: An Ontology-enhanced Medical Portal,” presented at the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), December 2002. [pdf]

G. Leroy and H. Chen, "Filling Preposition-based Templates to Capture Information from Medical Abstracts," presented at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), Kaua’i, pp 350-361, January 2002. [pdf]

B. Zhu, G. Leroy, H. Chen, and Y. Chen, "MedTextus: An Intelligent Web-Based Medical Meta-Search System," presented at the ACM and IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Portland, OR, 2002.  [pdf]

G. Leroy and H. Chen, "Meeting Medical Terminology Needs: The Ontology-enhanced Medical Concept Mapper," IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 5 (4), pp 261 – 270, December 2001. [pdf]

P. B. Lowry, H. W. Anderson, D. C. Wilson, G. Leroy, and L. Lin, "MIS Legitimacy and the Proposition of a New Multi-dimensional Model of MIS," presented at the 3rd Annual Conference of the Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS), Atlanta, GA 2000.[pdf]

G. Leroy, K. M. Tolle, and H. Chen, "Customizable and Ontology-Enhanced Medical Information Retrieval Interfaces," presented at the IMIA WG6 Triennial Conference on Natural Language and Medical Concept Representation, Phoenix, Arizona, December, 1999. [pdf]

K. Tolle, G. Leroy, R. Sewell, Y. Fang, D. Roussinov, P. Z. Stavri, and C. Chen, "Medical Information Access for the New Millennium: UMLS-Enhanced Semantic Parsing and Personalized Medical Agent," presented at Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, Berkeley, CA, 1999. [pdf]

G. d'Ydewalle, G. Leroy, and P. v. Diepen, "Using Peripheral Information in Processing Objects in Scenes," presented at the XXVI International Congress of Psychology, Montréal, Canada, 1996.

G. Leroy, W. Schaeken, and G. d’Ydewalle, “Working Memory and Validity, Content and Believability of Syllogisms,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Psychological Society, Brussels, May 10, 1996. (poster)

G. Leroy, and K. Lamberts, “Syllogism Solving Under Time Pressure,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Psychological Society, Brussels, May 10, 1996. (poster) [pdf]

 Last updated: 11/19/2009