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25 Apr 2024
Raising the Roof - Situating Verbs in Symbolic and Embodied Language Processing
07 Jul 2023
Generating multiple choice questions from a textbook - LLMs match human performance on most metrics
23 Aug 2022
Online Tutoring System (MoFaCTS) for Anatomy and Physiology - Implementation and Initial Impressions
07 Jul 2022
Generating Multiple Choice Questions with a Multi-Angle Question Answering Model
24 Apr 2022
Assessing Readability by Filling Cloze Items with Transformers
22 Jan 2022
Automated Content Creation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
20 Aug 2021
Automated Content Creation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
27 Jun 2021
Sentence Selection for Cloze Item Creation - A Standardized Task and Preliminary Results
25 May 2021
Contextual Definition Generation
05 Apr 2021
WikiMorph - Learning to Decompose Words into Morphological Structures
05 Apr 2021
Paraphrasing Academic Text - A Study of Backtranslating Anatomy and Physiology with Transformers
31 Mar 2021
Generating Response-Specific Elaborated Feedback Using Long-Form Neural Question Answering
06 Jul 2020
The Mobile Fact and Concept Textbook System (MoFaCTS)
12 Feb 2020
DataWhys reported in The Daily Memphian
13 Jan 2020
Advancing the Science of Learning Data Science with Adaptive Learning for Future Workforce Development (DataWhys)
13 Jan 2020
DataWhys Project Overview
29 Sep 2019
MoFaCTS Automated Authoring
01 Jul 2019
Using Adaptive Practice to Improve Recall and Understanding in Postsecondary Anatomy and Physiology
01 Jul 2019
MoFaCTs Project Overview
18 Jun 2019
Manual Subtitle Speech Alignment
29 Nov 2018
ElectronixTutor - An adaptive learning platform with multiple resources
27 Nov 2018
Using Novices to Scale Up Intelligent Tutoring Systems
05 Nov 2018
Automatically Measuring Question Authenticity in Real-World Classrooms
02 Nov 2018
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of AutoTutor
31 Jul 2018
CLASS5 reported in The Hechinger Report
15 Jul 2018
An Open Vocabulary Approach for Detecting Authentic Questions in Classroom Discourse
16 Apr 2018
ElectronixTutor - an intelligent tutoring system with multiple learning resources for electronics
13 Apr 2018
SKOPE-IT (Shareable Knowledge Objects as Portable Intelligent Tutors) - overlaying natural language tutoring on an adaptive learning system for mathematics
28 Mar 2018
Noah Wins Awards for BrainTrust Poster
27 Sep 2017
CLASS5 reported in EducationNext
27 Jun 2017
Improving Reading Comprehension with Automatically Generated Cloze Item Practice
26 Jun 2017
Tracking Online Reading of College Students
25 Jun 2017
The Reading Ability of College Freshmen
24 Jun 2017
Assessing the Dialogic Properties of Classroom Discourse - Proportion Models for Imbalanced Classes
13 Mar 2017
Words matter - automatic detection of teacher questions in live classroom discourse using linguistics, acoustics, and context
13 Mar 2017
Put your thinking cap on - Detecting cognitive load using EEG during learning
22 Sep 2016
Multi-Sensor Modeling of Teacher Instructional Segments in Live Classrooms
13 Sep 2016
Identifying Teacher Questions Using. Automatic Speech Recognition in Classrooms
29 Jul 2016
Automatic Teacher Modeling from Live Classroom Audio
29 Jun 2016
Semi-Automatic Detection of Teacher Questions from Human-Transcripts of Audio in Live Classrooms
07 Jun 2016
Enhanced Question Asking and Answering with Semantic Networks
07 Jun 2016
Enhanced Authoring with the BrainTrust System
30 Oct 2015
Artificial Conversations- Real Learning
18 May 2015
Building a BrainTrust
01 May 2015
Using Azure to Assess Dialogic Properties of Classroom Discourse
01 Jan 2015
Integration of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Electronics
01 Jan 2015
Modeling Classroom Discourse - Do Models that Predict Dialogic Instruction Properties Generalize across Populations?
01 Jan 2015
Emerging Trends in Automated Authoring
01 Jan 2015
The Language of Instruction - Compensating for Challenge in Lectures
01 Jan 2015
Multimodal Capture of Teacher-Student Interactions for Automated Dialogic Analysis in Live Classrooms
01 Jan 2015
Automatic Classification of Question and Answer Discourse Segments from Teacher’s Speech in Classrooms
01 Jan 2015
A Study of Automatic Speech Recognition in Noisy Classroom Environments for Automated Dialog Analysis
28 Jan 2014
Artificial Conversations- Real Learning
01 Jan 2014
Domain independent assessment of dialogic properties of classroom discourse
01 Jan 2014
Alignment Is a Function of Conversational Dynamics
01 Jan 2014
Scaffolding Made Visible
01 Jan 2014
Question classification in an epistemic game
01 Jan 2014
Animated Presentation of Pictorial and Concept Map Media in Biology
01 Sep 2013
CLASS5 Project Overview
01 Sep 2013
BrainTrust Project Overview
01 Aug 2013
Automating the Measurement and Assessment of Classroom Discourse
01 Aug 2013
EAGER - Using Crowdsourced Virtual Students to Create Intelligent Tutors
01 Jan 2013
Shiloh Overview
01 Jan 2013
XNAgent - Authoring embodied conversational agents for tutor-user interfaces
01 Jan 2013
Symbolic, indexical, and iconic communication with domestic dogs
01 Sep 2012
ONR STEM Grand Challenge - Project Overview
01 Sep 2012
Guru Project Overview
01 Sep 2012
Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) - Project Overview
01 Sep 2012
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy (CSAL)- Project Overview
01 Aug 2012
Shareable Knowledge Objects (SKO) as Enhanced, Portable ITS Modules
01 Aug 2012
Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutors
01 Jan 2012
Guru Demo
01 Jan 2012
Guru - Designing a Conversational Expert Intelligent Tutoring System
01 Jan 2012
Question Generation from Concept Maps
01 Jan 2012
Guru - A Computer Tutor that Models Expert Human Tutors
01 Jan 2012
AutoTutor
01 Jan 2012
Gaze Tutor - A Gaze-Reactive Intelligent Tutoring System
01 Sep 2011
Beyond Boredom - Project Overview
01 Jan 2011
Guru Demo
01 Jan 2011
Nonverbal Action Selection for Explanations Using an Enhanced Behavior Net
01 Jan 2011
Evidence for alignment in a computer-mediated text-only environment
01 Jan 2011
Student speech act classification using machine learning
01 Jan 2011
Building rapport with a 3D conversational agent
01 May 2010
Wii Fit Posture Sensor and Posture Mirroring Agent
01 May 2010
Guru Demo
01 Jan 2010
Tutorial Dialog in Natural Language
01 Jan 2010
Off topic conversation in expert tutoring - Waste of time or learning opportunity?
01 Jan 2010
Mining collaborative patterns in tutorial dialogues
01 Jan 2010
Collaborative lecturing by human and computer tutors
01 Jan 2010
An exploration of off topic conversation
01 Jan 2010
Using topic models to bridge coding schemes of differing granularity
01 Sep 2009
GnuTutor Project Overview
01 Apr 2009
Guru Demo
01 Aug 2008
Conditions Guiding Coordinative and Adaptive Dynamics in Human Interaction
01 Aug 2008
Guru - a computer tutor that models expert human tutors
01 Jan 2007
PKD Android Project Overview
01 Jan 2007
When are tutorial dialogues more effective than reading?
01 Jan 2007
Toward socially intelligent interviewing systems
01 Jan 2007
Multi-robot dispatch
01 Jan 2007
Dialogue generation for robotic portraits
01 Jan 2007
Inference generation and cohesion in the construction of situation models - Some connections with computational linguistics
01 Jan 2006
AutoTutor Project Overview
01 Jan 2006
AutoTutor 3-D Simulations - Analyzing user’s actions and learning trends
13 Dec 2005
The PKD Android- Painting a Conversational Portrait
11 Nov 2005
Philip K Dick Resurrected, a Conversational Portrait
01 Aug 2005
PKD Android Source Code
24 Jun 2005
The PKD Android
01 Jan 2005
When is reading just as effective as one-on-one interactive tutoring?
01 Jan 2005
An orthonormal basis for topic segmentation in tutorial dialogue
01 Jan 2005
The effectiveness of computer simulations in a computer based learning environment
01 Jan 2005
Computer simulation as an instructional technology in AutoTutor
01 Jan 2005
Upending the uncanny valley
01 Jan 2005
AutoTutor’s coverage of expectations during tutorial dialogue
01 Jan 2005
AutoTutor - A cognitive system that simulates a tutor that facilitates learning through mixed-initiative dialogue
01 Jan 2005
AutoTutor - An intelligent tutoring system with mixed-initiative dialogue
01 Jan 2005
The AutoTutor 3 architecture - A software architecture for an expandable, high-availability ITS
01 Jan 2004
Talking Fish
01 Jan 2004
A framework of synthesizing tutoring conversation capability with web based distance education courseware
01 Jan 2004
AutoTutor - A tutor with dialogue in natural language
01 Jan 2003
Utterance classification in AutoTutor
01 Jan 2003
Achieving domain independence in AutoTutor
01 Jan 2003
Modeling student performance to enhance the pedagogy of AutoTutor
01 Jan 2003
A Revised Algorithm for Latent Semantic Analysis
01 Jan 2003
AutoTutor improves deep learning of computer literacy - Is it the dialog or the talking head?
01 Jan 2003
Why/AutoTutor - A test of learning gains from a physics tutor with natural language dialog
01 Jan 2002
AutoTutor - A conversational tutoring environment
01 Jan 2002
AutoTutor’s log files and categories of language and discourse
01 Jan 2002
Good computational manners - Mixed-initiative dialog in conversational agents
01 Jan 2002
Implementing latent semantic analysis in learning environments with conversational agents and tutorial dialog