Parr publications

Publications of Cynthia Sims Parr

In prep and technical reports

Parr, C.S., A. Parafynyk, J. Sachs, T.D. Wang, Espinosa R., and T. Finin. Submitted. ETHAN: the Evolutionary Trees and Natural History Ontology. To be revised and resubmitted [Ebiquity technical report]

Han L, Finin T, Parr C, Sachs J, Joshi A. RDF123: a mechanism to transform spreadsheets to RDF. [Ebiquity technical report]

Peer-reviewed papers

Lee, B., G. Robertson, M. Czerwinski, and C.S. Parr. In press. CandidTree: Visualizing Structural Uncertainty in Similar Hierarchies. Information Visualization. (expanded version of Interact 2007 article)

Parr, CS. In press. Ecological informatics – Internet. Encyclopedia of Ecology (Jorgensen, S.E., ed.). 2007. In press. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

Lee B, Robertson G, Czerwinski M, and Parr CS. 2007. CandidTree: Visualizing Structural Uncertainty in Similar Hierarchies, Proceedings of Interact 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4663: 250-263.

Parr, C.S. 2007. Open-sourcing ecological data. BioScience 57: 309-310. (viewpoint article). [Ingenta]

Parr, C.S., Lee, B., and B. B. Bederson. 2007. EcoLens: Integration and interactive visualization of ecological datasets. Ecological Informatics 2:61-69. [pdf]

Lee, B., Parr, C.S., Plaisant, C., Bederson, B.B., Kotfila, C., Veksler, V. D., and Gray, W. 2006. Visualizing Directed Networks with Enhanced Tree Layouts: Can Interaction Tame Complexity? IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Special Issue on Visual Analytics 12(6):1414-1426. [pdf]

Parr, C.S. and M. Cummings. 2005. Data sharing in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 362-363. [pdf]

Parr, C.S., R. Espinosa, T. Dewey, G. Hammond, P. Myers. 2005. Building a biodiversity content management system for research, education, and outreach. Data Science Journal 4:1-11. [pdf]

Parr, C.S., B. Lee, D. Campbell, and B. Bederson. 2004. Tree visualizations for taxonomies and phylogenies. Bioinformatics 20(17): 2997-3004. [pdf]

Parr, C.S., T. Jones, and N.B. Songer. 2004. Evaluation of a Handheld Data Collection Interface for Science Learning. Journal of Science Education and Technology 13:233-243. [pdf]

Lee, B., C.S. Parr, D. Campbell, and B.B. Bederson. 2004. How Users Interact with Biodiversity Information Using TaxonTree. Pp. 320-327 in Proceeedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004. ACM Press. [pdf]

Payne, R.B., C.S. Parr, and L.L. Payne. 2003. Song mimicry, song dialects, and behaviour context of songs in brood-parasitic Straw-tailed Whydahs, Vidua fischeri. Ostrich 74:87-96. [pdf]

Lee, S.I., C.S. Parr, Y. Hwang, and D.P. Mindell. 2003. Phylogeny of Magpies (genus Pica) inferred from mtDNA data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29:250-257. [pdf]

Parr, C.S. and P. Myers. 2001. Interactive exploration of Kingdom Animalia using the Animal Diversity Web. Pages Pp. 470-475 in Karcher, S. J., editor. Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching. Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop/Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE 2000). [pdf]

Payne, R.B., J.L. Woods, M.E. Siddall, and C.S. Parr. 2000. Song mimicry, geographic variation, and cultural evolution in brood-parasitic straw-tailed whydahs, Vidua fischeri: randomization analyses. Ethology 106:261-282. [pdf]

Baldwin, I.T., C.L. Sims, and S. Keane. 1990. The reproductive costs of inducible alkaloidal responses in tobacco. Ecology 71:252-262. [jstor]

Peer-reviewed workshop/demo/poster/video papers

A. Parafiynyk, C. S. Parr, J. Sachs, Finin, T. In press. Adding semantics to social websites for citizen science. E-science workshop. AAAI 2007 conference. [pdf]

Finin, T., J. Sachs, C. S. Parr. In press. Finding Data, Knowledge, and Answers on the Semantic Web. Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society 20^th international conference (FLAIRS 20). [pdf]

Lee, B., Parr, C.S., Plaisant, C. and Bederson, B.B. 2006. TreePlus: Visualizing Graphs as Trees, Posters/Videos Compendium of InfoVis 2006. October 2006. (video)

Sachs, J., C.S. Parr, A. Parafiynyk, R. Pan, L. Han, D. Li, T. Finin, A. Hollander, T.D. Wang. 2006. Ecoinformatics. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on the Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, October 2006. [pdf]

Parr, C.S., A. Parafiynyk, J. Sachs, L. Ding, S. Dornbush, D. Wang, A. Hollander, and T. Finin. In press. Integrating Ecoinformatics Resources on the Semantic Web (poster). WWW2006 conference. [pdf]

Parr, C.S., A. Parafiynyk, J. Sachs, R. Pan, L. Han, D. Li, T. Finin, T.D. Wang, A. Hollander. 2006. Using the Semantic Web to Integrate Ecoinformatics Resources. Pp. 1949-1950 in Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), July 2006. [pdf]

Lee, B., Plaisant, C., Parr, C.S., Fekete, J.-D., and Henry, N. 2006. Task Taxonomy for Graph Visualization. To appear in proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces Workshop BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization, BELIV’06, Venezia, Italy. [pdf]

Lee, B., Parr, C.S., Plaisant, C. and Bederson, B.B. 2005. Visualizing Graphs as Trees: Plant a seed and watch it grow (poster) Proceedings of GD 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3843, pp. 516-518. [pdf]

Parr, C.S., T. Jones, and N.B. Songer. 2002. CyberTracker in BioKIDS: Customization of a PDA-based scientific data collection application for inquiry learning (poster). Pp. 574-575 in Bell, P., Stevens, R., and Satwicz, T., editors. Keeping Learning Complex: The Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Learning Sciences. [pdf]