--- title: "Susan W. McRoy — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Susan W. McRoy, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1992–1995), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-w-mcroy/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-w-mcroy/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Susan W. McRoy # Susan W. McRoy Susan W. McRoy has 2 papers in our library, in 1992–1995, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Word sense disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/); often with [Graeme Hirst](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graeme-hirst/). 2 papers in our library · 1992–1995 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5089827744) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-0947) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88683044) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5089827744) · [91 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089827744) · [1,414 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089827744&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-w-mcroy/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 42 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-w-mcroy/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5701](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/58/#star-5701) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Susan+W.+McRoy) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Susan+W.+McRoy) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Susan+W.+McRoy) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Susan+W.+McRoy) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee** Milwaukee · United States 1995–2026 · 65 papersEmployment since 2010 · Professor, Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee/) · [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 1990–1994 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Word sense disambiguation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) ## Works by year ### 1990s [**1995** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-w-mcroy/year/1995/) · [**1992** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-w-mcroy/year/1992/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Using Multiple Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Discrimination](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcroy-1992-multiple-knowledge-sources-word-sense/)** *(1992 · 173 citations)* McRoy tackles word sense discrimination in unrestricted English text, meaning the choice of the right sense for each word without first building a complete syntactic or semantic representation of the sentence. 2. **[The Repair of Speech Act Misunderstandings by Abductive Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcroy-1995-repair-speech-act-misunderstandings-abductive/)** *(1995 · 109 citations)* The paper tackles a gap in dialogue modelling. Earlier systems tried to prevent misconceptions, but none could notice and fix a speech act misunderstanding after it had happened. Such a misunderstanding arises when two participants assign different discourse roles to the same utterance, for example one hears an… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Using Multiple Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Discrimination](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcroy-1992-multiple-knowledge-sources-word-sense/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Susan W. McRoy*1992 · 173 citations* 2. **[The Repair of Speech Act Misunderstandings by Abductive Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcroy-1995-repair-speech-act-misunderstandings-abductive/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Susan W. McRoy, Graeme Hirst*1995 · 109 citations* 3. **[Enriching partially-specified representations for text realization using an attribute grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W00-1422/) INLG'2000 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation · no summary yet**Songsak Channarukul, Susan W. McRoy, Syed S. Ali*2000 · 21 citations* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Graeme Hirst](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graeme-hirst/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/) ×2: [Computational Linguistics 1995](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1995/), [Computational Linguistics 1992](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1992/) - INLG'2000 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 42 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-w-mcroy/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026