Jeffrey P. Bigham's Publications

Current Submissions

1. Enabling Web Users and Developers to Script Accessibility with Accessmonkey (2008).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jessica O. Leung and Richard E. Ladner. Submitted for publication.
2. Accessibility Commons: A Metadata Infrastructure for Web Accessibility (2008).
   Shinya Kawanaka, Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Darren Lunn, Hironobu Takagi and Chieko Asakawa. Submitted for publication.
3. Hunting for Headings: Sighted Labeling vs. Automatic Classification of Headings (2008).
   Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender and Richard E. Ladner. Submitted for publication.
4. Slide Rule: Making Mobile Touch Screens Accessible to Blind People Using Multi-Touch Interaction Techniques (2008).
   Shaun K. Kane, Jeffrey P. Bigham and Jacob O. Wobbrock. Submitted for publication.
5. What's New? - Making Web Page Updates Accessible (2008).
   Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Rohit Raman and I.V. Ramakrishnan. Submitted for publication.

Refereed Conference Papers

1. Addressing Performance and Security in a Screen ReadingWeb Application that Enables Accessibility Anywhere (2008).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham, Craig M. Prince and Richard E. Ladner. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2008), Yorktown Heights, New York, USA, 2008. To Appear.
2. WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader On-the-Go (2008).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham, Craig M. Prince and Richard E. Ladner. In Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2008), Beijing, China, 2008. To Appear.
   [WebAnywhere in Accessible PDF] [WebAnywhere in HTML]
3. Inspiring Blind High School Students to Pursue Computer Science with Instant Messaging Chatbots (2008).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham, Maxwell B. Aller, Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jessica O. Leung, Lindsay A. Yazzolino and Richard E. Ladner. In Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE 2008), Portland, OR, 2008.
4. Transcendence:   Enabling a Personal View of the Deep Web (2008).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Ryan S. Kaminsky, Craig M. Prince and Tyler S. Robison. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008). Canary Islands, Spain.
5. WebinSitu: A Comparative Analysis of Blind and Sighted Browsing Behavior (2007).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Richard E. Ladner.  In Proceedings of the The Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS 2007), Tempe, Arizona.
6. Accessmonkey: A Collaborative Scripting Framework for Web Users and Developers (2007).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham and Richard E. Ladner.  In the Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2007), Banff, Canada.
7. Increasing Web Accessibility by Automatically Judging Alternative Text Quality (2007).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham.  In the Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2007), Waikiki, Hawaii. (short paper)
8. WebInSight: Making Web Images Accessible (2006).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham, Ryan S. Kaminsky, Richard E. Ladner, Oscar M. Danielsson and Gordon L. Hempton  In Proceedings of the The Eighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS 2006), Portland, Oregon.
9. Names and Similarities on the Web: Fact Extraction in the Fast Lane (2006).
   Marius Pasca, Dekang Lin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Andrei Lifchits and Alpa Jain  In Proceedings of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL 2006), Sydney, Australia.
10. Organizing the World Wide Web of Facts - Step One: the One-Million Fact Extraction Challenge (2006).
    Marius Pasca, Dekang Lin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Andrei Lifchits, and Alpa Jain.  In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), Boston, Massachusetts.
11. Combining Independent Modules to Solve Multiple-Choice Synonym and Analogy Problems (2003).
    Peter Turney, Michael Littman, Jeffrey P. Bigham and Victor Shnayder.  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2003), pages pp. 482-489, Borovets, Bulgaria.

Journal Articles

1. Combining independent modules in lexical multiple-choice problems (2004).
   Peter D. Turney, Michael L. Littman, Jeffrey P. Bigham and Victor Shnayder. In Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III, Nicolov, Nicolas, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), 101 ff. 2004.

Refereed Workshop Papers

1. Accessmonkey: Enabling and Sharing End User Accessibility Improvements (2007).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham. In Accessibility and Computing: The Newsletter of ACM SIGACCESS. New York: ACM Press. First appeared in the Doctoral Consortium of ACM ASSETS 2007. Tempe, Arizona (Oct. 15-17).

Posters and Demonstrations

1. WebAnywhere: A Self-Voicing, Web-Browsing Web Application (2008).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham, Richard E. Ladner, and Craig M. Prince. In Proceedings of the International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW 2008), Beijing, China.
2. ASL-STEM Forum: A Bottom-Up Approach to Enabling American Sign Language to Grow in STEM Fields (2008).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham, Daniel Otero, Jessica N. DeWitt, Anna C. Cavender, and Richard E. Ladner. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM '08). Seattle, USA, 2008
3. WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader On-the-Go (2007).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham and Craig M. Prince. In Proceedings of the The Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS '07), Tempe, Arizona.

Other

1. WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader Interface for the Web on Any Computer (2008).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham, Craig M. Prince, Sangyun Hahn and Richard E. Ladner. WebAnywhere: A Screen Reading Interface for the Web on Any Computer. In Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2008) - Web Accessibility Challenge. Beijing, China, 2008.
   [Web Accessibility Challenge in Accessible PDF] [Web Accessibility Challege in HTML]
2. Enabling Blind Web Users to Create Accessible Web Content (2007).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham. General Exam Document. University of Washington Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
3. Boosting Relation Extraction Recall With Soft Rules (2005).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham. Qualifying Exam Document. University of Washington Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
4. On Using Error-Correcting Codes and Boosting to Learn Multi-Class Classification Problems (2003).
   Jeffrey P. Bigham. Undegraduate Thesis. Princeton University.