Bill Ogden is a Cognitive Psychologist who has been involved in the study of human computer interaction since 1981. As a human factors specialist, he has been involved in all aspects of software interface development, including design, evaluation, prototyping and implementation. Working at IBM, he was involved in the development of user interface guidelines and style guides, conducting IBM seminars related to these issues. He was primarily involved in the design and evaluation of database query interfaces, conducting research evaluating natural language interfaces which led to the publication of a number of articles on this issue. He designed, prototyped, and tested a database interface that became part of IBM's OS/2 software environment. As a Project Manager at CRL, Bill has successfully applied principles of user participatory design to the development and implementation of many software interfaces, including Cibola, a translator support system incorporating state-of-the-art linguistic tools. He also designed and developed a suite of tools extensively used by government analysts in ARPA's TIPSTER text extraction project. He is the author of a GUI builder software package, Tabula Rasa, for text extraction applications. Currently he is managing the Oleada project, a networked integrated multilingual text processing system with flexible tools designed for language analysis and instruction. Currently this system is being used in government language schools and universities to increase the quality of foreign language instruction. He continues to teach the art of user interface design to undergraduate and graduate students at New Mexico State University. [CS485]

For more information about Oleada, Cibola, and the suite of multiligual text and information retrieval tools click here. 

Recent Publications:

Davis, M. W., & Ogden, W. C., "Toward Universal Text Retrieval", Information Retrieval,
3 (4): 339-356, December 2000.

Ogden, William C., Davis, Mark W. "Improving Cross-Language Text Retrieval with Human Interactions", Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-33), January 4-7, 2000, Maui, Hawaii (CD-ROM), Copyright © 2000 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE), 9 pages. [pdf]

Ogden, W., Cowie, J., Davis, M., Ludovik, Y., Nirenburg, S., Molina-Salgado, H., and Sarples N. "Keizai: An Interactive Cross-Language Text Retrieval System" in Machine Translation Summit VII, Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval, September 17, 1999, Singapore. [pdf]

Ogden, William and Philip Bernick. " Oleada: User-Centered Tipster Technology for Language Instruction." In Proceedings of the Tipster Phase II 24 Month Workshop. Tysons Corner, VA, May 6-8, 1996 [pdf]

Ogden, William and Philip Bernick. "Using Natural Language Interfaces" in Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction M. Helander (ed.), Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland), 1996. [pdf]

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