Publications: 2005/2006

Refereed Journal Publications (does not include book chapters)

D'Mello, S. K., Craig, S. D., Sullins, J., & Graesser, A. C. (2006). Predicting affective states expressed through an emote-aloud procedure from AutoTutor's mixed-initiative dialogue. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 16(1), 3-28. Link to PDF

Graesser, A. C. (2006). Views from a cognitive scientist: Cognitive representations underlying discourse are sometimes social. Discourse Studies, 8, 59-66. PDF Version

Graesser, A. C., Cai, Z., Louwerse, M. M., & Daniel, F. (2006). Question Understanding Aid (QUAID): A web facility that tests question comprehensibility. Public Opinion Quarterly, 70(1), 3-22. Link to PDF

Graesser, A. C., Chipman, P., Haynes, B., & Olney, A. M. (2005). AutoTutor: An intelligent tutoring system with mixed-initiative dialogue. IEEE Transactions on Education, 48(4), 612-618. DOC Version

Graesser, A. C., Lu, S., Olde, B. A., Cooper-Pye, E., & Whitten, S. N. (2005). Question asking and eye tracking during cognitive disequilibrium: Comprehending illustrated texts on devices when the devices break down. Memory and Cognition, 33(7), 1235-1247. DOC Version

Graesser, A. C., McNamara, D. S., & VanLehn, K. (2005). Scaffolding deep comprehension strategies through Point&Query, AutoTutor, and iSTART. Educational Psychologist, 40(4), 225-234. DOC Version

Graesser, A. C., Olde, B. A., Pomeroy, V., Whitten, S. N., Lu, S., & Craig, S. D. (2005). Inferences and questions in science text comprehension. Tarbiya, 36, 103-128.

Hempelmann, C. F., Rus, V., Graesser, A. C., & McNamara, D. S. (2006). Evaluating state-of-the-art Treebank-style parsers for Coh-Metrix and other learning technology environments. Natural Language Engineering, 12(2), 131-144. Link to PDF

Hu, X., Cai, Z., & Graesser, A. C. (2005). Adaptive resolution method for Latent Semantic Analysis. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 49(1), 92.

Jackson, G. T., & Graesser, A. C. (2006). Applications of human tutorial dialog in AutoTutor: An intelligent tutoring system. Revista Signos, 39, 31-48.

Louwerse, M. M., Graesser, A. C., Lu, S., & Mitchell, H. H. (2005). Social cues in animated conversational agents. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19(6), 693-704. Link to PDF

Penumatsa, P., Ventura, M., Graesser, A. C., Franceschetti, D. R., Louwerse, M. M., Hu, X., et al. (2006). The right threshold value: What is the right threshold of cosine measure when using latent semantic analysis for evaluating student answers? International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 15(5), 767-777. Link to PDF

Sanford, A. J., & Graesser, A. C. (2006). Shallow processing and underspecification. Discourse Processes, 42(2), 99-108. Link to PDF

Book Chapters

Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., & McNamara, D. S. (2005). Computerized learning environments that incorporate research in discourse psychology, cognitive science, and computational linguistics. In A. F. Healy (Ed.), Experimental cognitive psychology and its applications: Festschrift in Honor of Lyle Bourne, Walter Kintsch, and Thomas Landauer. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. DOC Version

Graesser, A. C., Olney, A. M., Haynes, B. C., & Chipman, P. (2005). AutoTutor: A cognitive system that simulates a tutor that facilitates learning through mixed-initiative dialogue. In C. Forsythe, M. L. Bernard, & T. E. Goldsmith (Eds.), Cognitive systems: Human cognitive models in systems design. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. DOC Version

Graesser, A. C., & Person, N. K. (2006). Discourse: Cognitive perspective. In J. W. Guthrie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of education. New York: Macmillan. Link to Book

Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., Lu, Z., Jeon, M., & McDaniel, B. (2005). Learning while holding a conversation with a computer. In L. PytlikZillig, M. Bodvarsson, & R. Bruning (Eds.), Technology-based education: Bringing researchers and practitioners together (pp. 143-167). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing. PDF version

Graesser, A. C., & Petschonek, S. (2005). Automated systems that analyze text and discourse: QUAID, Coh-Metrix, and AutoTutor. In W. R. Lenderking & D. Revicki (Eds.), Advancing health outcomes research methods and clinical applications. McLean, VA: Degnon Associates. DOC Version

Hacker, D. J., & Graesser, A. C. (2006). The role of dialogue in reciprocal teaching and naturalistic tutoring. In R. Horowitz (Ed.), Talk about text: Developing understanding about the world through talk and text. Newark, DE: The International Reading Association.

Louwerse, M. M., & Graesser, A. C. (2006). Coherence. In K. Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (2nd ed.). Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier.

Louwerse, M. M., & Graesser, A. C. (2006). Macrostructure. In K. Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of language & linguistics (2nd ed., pp. 426-429). Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier.

Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2006). Pedagogical agents and tutors. In J. W. Guthrie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of education (pp. 1169-1172). New York: Macmillan. DOC Version

Wisher, R. A., & Graesser, A. C. (2005). Question asking in advanced distributed learning environments. In S. M. Fiore & E. Salas (Eds.), Toward a science of distributed learning and training. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Link to Book

Refereed Conference Publications and Abstracts

Baylor, A. L., Cole, R., Graesser, A., & Johnson, W. L. (2005). Pedagogical agent research and development: Next steps and future possibilities. In C. Looi, G. McCalla, B. Bredeweg, and J. Breuker (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education: Supporting learning through intelligent and socially informed technology (p. 985). Amsterdam: IOS Press. Link to Book

Cai, Z., Rus, V., Kim, H. J., Susarla, S. C., Karnam, P., & Graesser, A. C. (2006). NLGML: A markup language for question generation. In T. Reeves & S. Yamashita (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (pp. 2747-2752). Honolulu, HI: AACE.

Chipman, P., Olney, A., & Graesser, A. C. (2005). The AutoTutor 3 architecture: A software architecture for an expandable, high-availability ITS. In J. Cordeiro, V. Pedrosa, B. Encarnacao, & J. Filipe (Eds.), Proceedings of WEBIST 2005: First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (pp. 466-473). Portugal: INSTICC Press. Link to PDF

D'Mello, S. K., Craig, S. D., Gholson, B., Franklin, S., Picard, R., & Graesser, A. C. (2005). Integrating affect sensors in an intelligent tutoring system. Affective Interactions: The Computer in the Affective Loop Workshop at 2005 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 7-13). New York: AMC Press. PDF Version

D'Mello, S.K., Craig, S. D., McDaniel, B., Witherspoon, A., Sullins, J., Gholson, B., & Graesser, A. C. (2005). The relationship between affective states and dialog patterns during interactions with AutoTutor. Proceedings for the e-Learning 2005 World Conference on E-learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Business. Vancouver, Canada: AACE.

D'Mello, S., & Graesser, A. C. (2006). Affect detection from human-computer dialogue with an intelligent tutoring system. In J. Gratch, M. Young, R. Aylett, D. Ballin, & P. Oliver (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Intelligent Virtual Agents: 6th International Conference (pp. 54-67). Berlin, Germany: Springer. Link to PDF

Dufty, D. F., Graesser, A. C., Louwerse, M. M., & McNamara, D. S. (2006). Assigning grade levels to textbooks: Is it just readability? In R. Son (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1251-1256). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to PDF

Duran, N. D., McCarthy, P. M., Graesser, A. C., & McNamara, D. S. (2006). Using Coh-Metrix temporal indices to predict psychological measures of time. In R. Son (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 190-195). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to PDF

Graesser, A. C., McDaniel, B., Chipman, P., Witherspoon, A., D'Mello, S. K., & Gholson, B. (2006). Detection of emotions during learning with AutoTutor. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. PDF Version

Graesser, A. C., Olney, A. M., Ventura, M., & Jackson, G. T. (2005). AutoTutor's coverage of expectations during tutorial dialogue. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (pp. 518-523). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. Link to PDF

Graesser, A. C., Witherspoon, A., McDaniel, B., D'Mello, S., Chipman, P., & Gholson, B. (2006). Detection of emotions during learning with AutoTutor. In R. Son (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 285-290). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to PDF

Hempelmann, C. F., Dufty, D., McCarthy, P. M., Graesser, A. C., Cai, Z., & McNamara, D. S. (2005). Using LSA to automatically identify givenness and newness of noun-phrases in written discourse. In B. G. Bara (Ed.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 941-946). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to PDF

Jackson, G. T., Olney, A., Graesser, A. C., & Kim, H. J. (2006). AutoTutor 3-D simulations: Analyzing user's actions and learning trends. In R. Son (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1557-1562). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to PDF

Jeon, M., O'Reilly, T., McDaniel, B., Graesser, A. C., Goldman, S., & Wiley, J. (2005). Scaffolding critical thinking on SEEK. Proceedings for e-Learning 2005 World Conference on E-learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Business (pp.2123-2128). Vancouver, Canada: AACE. PDF Version

Kim, H. J., Graesser, A. C., Jackson, G. T., Olney, A. M., & Chipman, P. (2005). Computer simulation as an instructional technology in AutoTutor. In C. Looi, G. McCalla, B. Bredeweg, & J. Breuker (Eds.), Artificial intelligence in education: Supporting learning through intelligent and socially informed technology (pp. 845-847). Amsterdam: IOS Press. Link to Book

Kim, H. J., Graesser, A., Jackson, G. T., Olney, A., & Chipman, P. (2005). The effectiveness of computer simulations in a computer-based learning environment. Proceedings for the e-Learning 2005 World Conference on E-learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Business. Vancouver, Canada: AACE.

McNamara, D. S., Ozuru, Y., Graesser, A. C., & Louwerse, M. (2006). Validating Coh-Metrix. In R. Son (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 573-578). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Link to PDF

Rus, V., & Graesser, A. C. (2006). Deeper natural language processing for evaluating student answers in intelligent tutoring systems. Proceedings of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI. Link to PDF

Rus, V., McCarthy, P. M., & Graesser, A. C. (2006). Analysis of a textual entailer. In A. Gelbukh (Ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 7th International Conference (pp. 287-298). Berlin, Germany: Springer. Link to PDF

VanLehn, K., Graesser, A. C., Jackson, G. T., Jordan, P., Olney, A. M., & Rosé, C. P. (2005). When is reading just as effective as one-on-one interactive tutoring? In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2259-2264). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Link to PDF

Ventura, M., D'Mello, S. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2005). Modeling mental models. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy. pp. 2289-2294.