Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publications

These are listed here for completeness, but most of my papers are ancient history in AI time, so I'm only linking to recent work.

  • K. Gold (2025). "LLM Practice Problem Generation in a Beginning Programming Class". Proceedings of AIET 2025, collected in Springer Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies. Best-in-session award.
  • K. Gold and S. Geng (2024). "On the Helpfulness of a Zero-Shot Socratic Tutor". Proceedings of AIET 2024, collected in Artificial Intelligence in Education Technologies: New Development and Innovative Practices, ed. Tim Schlippe, Eric C. K. Cheng, Tianchong Wang. Springer Singapore. Best-in-session award.
  • K. Gold and S. Geng (2024). "Tracking the Evolution of Student Interactions with an LLM-powered Tutor." Proceedings of the 14th Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK '24). ACM.
  • B. Priest and K. Gold (2013). Utility Discounting Explains Informational Website Traffic Patterns Before a Hurricane. Proceedings of WWW 2013. ACM Press.
  • K. Gold (2013). Learning to Efficiently Pursue Communication Goals on the Web with the GOSMR Architecture. Proceedings of AAAI 2013. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, CA.
  • K. Gold, Z. Weber, B. Priest, J. Ziegler, K. Sittig, W. Streilein, and M. Mazumder (2013). Modeling How Thinking About the Past and Future Impacts Network Traffic with the GOSMR Architecture. Proceedings of AAMAS 2013. ACM Press.
  • K. Gold, B. Priest, and K. Carter (2013). An Expectation Maximization Approach to Detecting Compromised Remote Access Accounts. Proceedings of FLAIRS 2013 Cyber Security Track. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, CA.
  • K. Gold (2011). Trigram Timmies and Bayesian Johnnies: Probabilistic Models of Personality in Dominion. Proceedings of AIIDE 2011. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, CA.
  • K. Gold, C. Havasi, M. Anderson, and K. Arnold (2011) Comparing Matrix Decomposition Methods for Meta-analysis and Reconstruction of Cognitive Neuroscience Results. Proceedings of FLAIRS 2011. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, CA.
  • K. Gold and A. Olivier (2010) Using Machine Translation to Convert Between Difficulties in Rhythm Games. Proceedings of AIIDE 2010. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, CA.
  • K. Gold (2010) Training Goal Recognition Online from Low-Level Inputs in an Action-Adventure Game. Proceedings of AIIDE 2010. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, CA.
  • K. Gold and A. Petrosino (2010) Using Information Gain to Build Meaningful Decision Forests for Multilabel Classification. ICDL 2010, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • K. Gold (2010) Designer-Driven Intention Recognition in an Action-Adventure Game Using Fast Forward Bayesian Models. Proceedings of FLAIRS 2010. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, CA.
  • A. Piplica, A. Olivier, A. Petrosino, and K. Gold (2010). Learning to Identify and Track Imaginary Objects Implied by Gestures. Proceedings of FLAIRS 2010. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, CA.
  • K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2009). Using Probabilistic Reasoning Over Time to Self-Recognize. Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) 57(4), p. 384-392.
  • K. Gold, M. Doniec, C. Crick, and B. Scassellati (2009). Robotic Vocabulary Building Using Extension Inference and Implicit Contrast. Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) 173(1), p. 145-166.
  • K. Gold (2009). An Information Pipeline Model of Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI-09), La Jolla, CA.
  • E. Kim, K. Gold, and B. Scassellati (2008). What Prosody Tells Infants to Believe. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-08), Monterey, CA.
  • K. Gold, M. Doniec, and B. Scassellati (2007). Learning Grounded Semantics With Word Trees: Prepositions and Pronouns. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-07), London, UK. Best Paper Award.
  • K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2007). A robot that uses existing vocabulary to infer non-visual word meanings from observation. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  • K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2007). A Bayesian robot that distinguishes "self" from "other." Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2007), Nashville, Tennessee.
  • K. Gold, I. Fasel, N. Freier, and C. Torrey (2007). Young researchers' views on the current and future state of HRI. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-07), Arlington, Virginia.
  • K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2006). Learning acceptable windows of contingency. Connection Science 18(2), p. 217-228.
  • K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2006). Deictic pronoun learning and mirror self-identification. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-06), Paris, France, p. 49-54.
  • K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2006). Audio speech segmentation without language-specific knowledge. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2006), Vancouver, Canada.
  • K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2006). Grounded pronoun learning and pronoun reversal. 5th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-06), Bloomington, Indiana, 2006.
  • K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2006). Using context and sensory data to learn first and second person pronouns. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-06), Salt Lake City, Utah, p. 110-117.
  • P. Michel, K. Gold, and B. Scassellati (2004). Motion-based robotic self-recognition. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-04). Sendai, Japan.

Dissertation
  • K. Gold (2008). Using Sentence Context and Implicit Contrast to Learn Sensor-Grounded Meanings for Relational and Deictic Words: The TWIG System. Yale University, May 2008.

Trade Magazine Articles
  • B. Scassellati, C. Crick, K. Gold, E. Kim, F. Shic, and G. Sun (2006). Social development. Computational Intelligence Magazine (IEEE) 1(3), p. 41-47.

Workshop and Symposium Papers
  • A. Petrosino and K.Gold (2010). Toward Fast Mapping for Robot Adjective Learning. 2010 AAAI Fall Symposium on Dialog with Robots. Arlington, Virginia.
  • A. Piplica, A. Olivier, A. Petrosino, and K. Gold (2010). Learning to Place Imaginary Objects Implied by Gestures in Video. IRIS Intelligent Robots and Sensors Symposium, Nagoya, Japan.
  • K. Gold. (2006) Why robotic ethical claims will outpace their understanding. Artificial Life X Ethical Robots Workshop. Bloomington, Indiana.
  • K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2005). Learning about the self and others through contingency. 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Developmental Robotics. Stanford, California.