PUBLICATIONS
In press
- Sikes, K., Fine-Morris, M., Sreedharan, S. and Roberts, M. (2027) (Under Review). But They Mean the Same Thing, Right? A Planner-Focused Model Refinement Strategy for Fluent Mapping. In Main Technical Track at AAAI.
2026
Conference Papers
Workshop Papers
Demo Papers
- Sikes, K., Keren, S., and Sreedharan, S. (2026). Reducing Goal State Divergence with Environment Design. In Main Technical Track at AAAI. (pdf)
Workshop Papers
- Sikes, K., and Sreedharan, S. (2026). Do You Even Know What I Want? Improving LLMs Ability to Detect Hidden User Intent. In Workshop on Human-Aware and Explainable Planning at ICAPS. (pdf)
Demo Papers
- Ananthakrishanan, H., Kokel, H., Sikes, K., Bhattacharjya, D., Katz, M., Sohrabi, S. & Srinivas, K. (2026). QueryGym: Step-by-Step Interaction with Relational Databases. In Demonstration Track at AAAI. (pdf)
2025
Conference Papers
Workshop Papers
- Sreedharan, S., Sikes, K., Blanchard, N., Mason, L., Krishnaswamy, N. & Zarestky, J. (2025). On the Role of Domain Experts in Creating Effective Tutoring Systems. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).
Workshop Papers
- Sikes, K., Fine-Morris, M., Sreedharan, S., Smith, L., and Roberts, M. (2025). Creating PDDL Models from Javascript using LLMs: Preliminary Results. In Workshop on Planning in the Era of LLMs at AAAI 2025. (pdf)
- Sikes, K. (2025). Reducing Goal State Divergence with Environment Design (pdf)
2024
Journal Papers
Workshop Papers
- Khebour, I., Brutti, R., Dey, I., Dickler, R., Sikes, K., Lai, K., Bradford, M., Cates, B., Hansen, P., Jung, C., Wisniewski, B., Terpstra, C., Hirshfield, L., Puntambekar, S., Blanchard, N., Pustejovsky, J., & Krishnaswamy, N. (2024). When Text and Speech are Not Enough: A Multimodal Dataset of Collaboration in a Situated Task. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10: 7, pp. 1–7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.168 (pdf)
Workshop Papers
- Sikes, K., Keren, S., and Sreedharan, S. (2024). Reducing Human-Robot Goal State Divergence with Environment Design. In Workshop on Task Specification for General-Purpose Intelligent Robots at RSS-24-W: TaskSpec. (pdf)
- Sikes, K., Keren, S., and Sreedharan, S. (2024). Reducing Human-Robot Goal State Divergence with Environment Design. In Workshop on Human-Aware and Explainable Planning at ICAPS 2024. (pdf)
- Sikes, K., Fine-Morris, M., Sreedharan, S., and Roberts, M. (2024). Traversing the Linguistic Divide: Aligning Semantically Equivalent Fluents Through Model Refinement. In Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling at ICAPS 2024. (pdf)
2023
Journal Papers
- Khebour, I., Brutti, R., Dey, I., Dickler, R., Sikes, K., Lai, K., Bradford, M., Cates, B., Hansen, P., Wisniewski, B., Terpstra, C., Hirshfield, L., Puntambekar, S., Blanchard, N., Pustejovsky, J., & Krishnaswamy, N. (2023). The Weights Task Dataset: A Multimodal Dataset of Collaboration in a Situated Task. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10. DOI: (pdf)
- Pickard, W., Sikes, K., Jamil, H., Chaffee, N., Blanchard, N., Kirby, M. & Peterson, C. (2023). Exploring fMRI RDMs: Enhancing Model Robustness Through Neurobiological Data. Frontiers in Computer Science. (pdf)