Selected Publications
Theses
Computer Science Department, School of Engineering, Southern Methodist University, PhD Thesis, May 2002, Dallas, Texas.
Vasile Rus: On the Implementation of an Inference Algorithm in Java ,
Computer Science Department, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Southern Methodist University, Masters of Science Thesis, May 1999, Dallas, Texas.
Vasile Rus: Collaborative Configuration Management. Application on the Adele Configuration Manager", Diploma Thesis, LSR Laboratory - ADELE Group, 1997, INPG (now Grenoble Tech), Grenoble, France
Books
Rus, V. & Lester, J. (Eds.). (2009). Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Question Generation. July 6, 2009, Brighton, UK.
Rus, V. & Graesser, A.C. (Eds.). (2009). The Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge. ISBN: 978-0-615-27428-7.
Rus, V. & Lester, J. (Eds.). (2009). Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Question Generation. July 6, 2009, Brighton, UK.
Tufis, D., Rus, V., & Forascu, C. (eds.) (2013). Towards Multilingual Europe 2020: A Romanian Perspective, Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, February 2013, ISBN 978-973-27-2282-4. 370 pp.
Forăscu, C., Ioniţă, A., Tufiş, D., Cristea, D., & Rus, V. (eds.) (2012). Language Technologies in Romanian and Diaspora Research & Development, September 2012, University Al.I. Cuza Publishing House, Iaşi, Romania. ISBN 978-973-703-813-5. 54 pp.
Rus, V., and Markov, Z. (2017). Proceedings of the 30th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, Vasile Rus and Zdravko Markov (Editors), 826 pp., references, index, illus., ISBN 978-1-57735-787-2, The AAAI Press, Palo Alto, California.
Brawner, K., and Rus, V. (2018). Proceedings of the 31st Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, Brawner, K. and Rus, V. (Editors), 872 pp., references, index, illus., ISBN 978-1-52735-437-2, The AAAI Press, Palo Alto, California.
Sinatra, A.M., Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., Brawner, K., and Rus, V. (Eds.). (2019). Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 7 - Self-Improving Systems. Orlando, FL: U.S. Army Research Laboratory. ISBN 978-0-9977257-7-3.
Selected Refereed Journal Papers and Book Chapters
Zachari Swiecki, Andrew R. Ruis, Dipesh Gautam, Vasile Rus, David Williamson Shaffer: Understanding when students are active-in-thinking through modeling-in-context. BJET 50(5): 2346-2364 (2019).
Liu, M, Rus, V & Liu, L 2018, Automatic Chinese Multiple Choice Question Generation Using Mixed Similarity Strategy, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 193-202.
Graesser, A.C., McNamara, D., & Rus, V. (2018). Computational Modeling of Discourse and Conversation, Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics, edited by Michael Spivey, Marc Joanisse, and Ken McRae.
Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., Rus, V., & Cai, Z. (2018). AutoTutor and other Conversation-based Learning and Assessment Environments, Chapter for Handbook of Automated Scoring: Theory into Practice, edited by Andre Rupp, Duanli Yan, and Peter Foltz
Rus, V., Olney, A.M., Foltz, P., Hu, X. (2017). Automated Assessment of Learner-Generated Natural Language Responses, In R. Sottilare, A. Graesser, X. Hu, & G. Goodwin (Eds.), Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Assessment Methods (Vol. 5, pp. 155–170). Orlando, FL: U.S. Army Research Laboratory.
Rus, V., Graesser, A.C., & Conley, M. (2014). The DENDROGRAM Model of Instruction, Design Recommendations for Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Adaptive Instructional Strategies (Volume 2), (Eds. Sottilare, R.), Army Research Lab. [PDF]
Ming, L., Calvo, R., & Rus, V. (2014). Automatic Generation and Ranking of Questions for Critical Review, Journal of Educational Technology Society Journal, v14 - N 3. pp. 16-27. [PDF]
Rus, V., D'Mello, S., Hu, X., & Graesser, A.C. (2013). Recent Advances in Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Systems, AI Magazine, 34,(3):42-54. [PDF]
Rus, V., Baggett, W., Gire, E., Franceschetti, D., Conley, M., Graesser, A.C. (2013). Towards Learner Models based on Learning Progressions in DeepTutor, Learner Models (Eds. Sottilare, R.), Army Research Lab. [PDF]
Rus, V., Niraula, N., Lintean, M., & Graesser, A.C. (2013). An Overview of Dialogue and Semantic Processing in Educational Technologies, Chapter in (Eds. Forascu, C., Ionita, A., Tufis, D., Cristea, D. & Rus, V.) Language Technologies in Romanian and Diaspora Research & Development, September 2012, University Al.I. Cuza Publishing House, Iasi, Romania. ISBN 978-973-703-813-5. [PDF]
Rus, V., Wyse, B., Piwek, P., Lintean, M., Stoyanchev, S., & Moldovan, C. (2012). A Detailed Account of The First Question Generation Shared Task Evaluation Challenge, Special Issue on Question Generation of the Journal of Dialogue and Discourse, Vol. 3., No. 2, pp. 177-204. [PDF]
Ming, L. Calvo, R., & Rus, V. (2012). G-Asks: An Intelligent Automatic Generation System for Academic Writing Support, Special Issue on Question Generation of the Journal of Dialogue and Discourse, Vol. 3., No. 2, pp. 101-124. [PDF]
Rus, V., Linean, M., Cai, Z., Graesser, A.C., Witherspoon, A., & Azevedo, R. (2011). Computational Aspects of The Intelligent Tutoring System MetaTutor, In Applied Natural Language Processing, Phillip McCarthy and Chutima Boonthum-Denecke (Eds.), IGI Global, 2011. [PDF]
Rus, V., Lintean, M., Graesser, A.C, & McNamara, D.S. (2011). Text-to-Text Similarity of Sentences, In Applied Natural Language Processing, Phillip McCarthy and Chutima Boonthum-Denecke (Eds.), IGI Global, 2011. [PDF]
Graesser, A.C., Rus, V., Cai, Z., & Hu, X. (2011). Question Answering and Generation, In Applied Natural Language Processing, Phillip McCarthy and Chutima Boonthum-Denecke (Eds.), IGI Global, 2011. [PDF]
Lintean, M., Rus, V., & Azevedo, R. (2011). Automatic Detection of Student Mental Models during Prior Knowledge Activation in MetaTutor, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 21(3), pp. 169-190. [local copy - PDF]
Lintean, M., & Rus, V. (2010). Paraphrase Identification Using Weighted Dependencies and Lexical Semantics. Informatica: The International Journal of Computing. 34(2010), 19-28. [PDF]
Shala, L., Rus, V. & Graesser, A. (2010). Automatic Speech Act Classification in Arabic. Subjetividad y Procesos Cognitivos Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2010, pp. 284-292. [PDF]
Rus. V. (2010). Language Processing Challenges and Solutions in Intelligent Tutoring Systems with Natural Language Interaction, in Forascu, C. & Tufis, D., Multilinguality and Interoperability in Language Processing, Romanian Academy Press, ISBN: 978-973-27-1972-5. [PDF]
Rus, V. (2009). Where Next in Knowledge Representation?, Proceedings of the The Knowledge Engineering: Principles and Techniques International Conference, Cluj, Romania, July 2-4, 2009 [Plenary Talk Chapter] [PDF].
Rus, V., McCarthy, P. M., Graesser, A. C., & McNamara, D. S. (2009). Identification of Sentence-to-Sentence Relations Using a Textual Entailer. The International Journal on Research in Language and Computation, 7, 209-229.
Rus, V., Russell, I., & Markov, Z. (2009). MLXeAI: Biomedical Term Classification. The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges , 24 (5), 85-92.
Graesser, A. C., Rus., V., DMello, S., & Jackson, G. T. (2008). AutoTutor: Learning through natural language dialogue that adapts to the cognitive and affective states of the learner. In D. H. Robinson & G. Schraw (Eds.), Current perspectives on cognition, learning and instruction: Recent innovations in educational technology that facilitate student learning (pp. 95125). Information Age Publishing.
Vasile Rus, Philip McCarthy, Danielle McNamara, and Arthur C. Graesser. (2008). Natural Language Understanding and Assessment, Chapter in Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, ISBN: 978-1-59904-849-9, July, 2008
Vasile Rus, Philip McCarthy, Danielle McNamara, and Arthur C. Graesser. (2008). A Study on Textual Entailment, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 17(4):659-685-499, August, 2008
Mihai Lintean and Vasile Rus, Large Scale Experiments with Nave Bayes and Decision Trees for Function Tagging, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 17(3):483-499, June, 2008
Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Amanda Stent, Marylin Walker, and Michael White, (2007). Text-to-Text Generation, in Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation by Robert Dale and Michael White, November, 2007, pages 33-46.
Vasile Rus and Arthur C. Graesser, (2007). Lexico-Syntactic Subsumption for Textual Entailment, In Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing IV: Selected Papers from RANLP 2005, John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN: 9789027248077, 2007
Philip M. McCarthy, Stephen W. Briner, Vasile Rus, & Danielle S. McNamara, (2007). Textual Signatures: Identifying Text-Types Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Measure the Cohesion of Text Structures in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining (Hardcover) by Anne Kao (Editor), Steve Poteet (Editor), Springer; 1 edition (2007), ISBN: 184628175X, pages 107-122.
Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara, & Vasile Rus. (2007). Computational modeling of discourse and conversation. In M. Spivey, M. Joanisse, & K. McRae (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rus, V., Ravi, S., (2006). Towards a Base Noun Phrase Parser Using Web Counts. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 21 Issue 5
Philip M. McCarthy, Stephen W. Briner, Vasile Rus, Danielle S. McNamara Textual Signatures: Identifying Text-Types Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Measure the Cohesion of Text Structures in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining (Hardcover) by Anne Kao (Editor), Steve Poteet (Editor), Springer; 1 edition (April 1, 2006), ISBN: 184628175X
Art Graesser, Danielle McNamara, Vasile Rus, Computational Modeling of Discourse and Conversation, Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics (to appear)
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.
Vasile Rus and Christian Hempelmann, Across-Genres and Empirical Evaluation of State-of-the-Art, Treebank-style Parsers, International Journal of Archives of Control Sciences, Special Issue, October 2005
James Markham, Vasile Rus: On the implementation of a baseline part-of-speech tagger, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 20, Pages 151-159, Issue 6, June 2005
Vasile Rus: Automated Learning Applied to Functional Arguments Identification, International Journal of Computing and Information Technologies, Vol. 12, No3, September 2004
Dan I. Moldovan and Vasile Rus : LogicRepresentation of WordNet Glosses and Their Application to Question Answering, submitted to IEEE's Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (NOTE: the first author promised to submit the paper but I am not sure if that happened; the paper was written though)
Vasile Rus and Dan I. Moldovan: High Precision Logic Form Transformation, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol. 11 no. 3, September 2002
Selected Refereed Conference Papers
Maharjan, N. & Rus, V. (2019). Towards Concept Map Based Free Student Answer Assessment, Proceedings of the 32nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2019), Sarasota, FL, USA May 19-22, 2019. [NOMINATED FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD]
Ait-Khayi, N. and Rus, V. (2019). BI-GRU Capsule Networks for Student Answers Assessment, In Proceedings of The 2019 KDD Workshop on Deep Learning for Education (DL4Ed) in conjunction with the 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2019), August 4-8, 2019, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Rus, V., Brusilovskoy, P, Fleming, S., Tamang, L., Risha, Z., Akhuseyinoglu, K., Pineda, J.B., Ait-Khayi, N., & Alshaikh, Z. (2019). An Intelligent Tutoring System for Source Code Comprehension, Demo Session, The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, June 25-29, Chicago, IL, USA.
Maharjan, N., Rus. V. (2019) . A Concept Map Based Assessment of Free Student Answers in Tutorial Dialogues. The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), 2019: 244-257, June 25-29, Chicago, IL, USA.
Banjade, R. & Rus, V. (2019).Assessing Student Response in Tutorial Dialogue Context using Probabilistic Soft Logic. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM), July 2-5, 2019, Montreal, Canada.
Ait-Khayi, N. & Rus, V. (2019). Clustering Students Based on Their Prior Knowledge. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM), July 2-5, 2019, Montreal, Canada.
Gautam, D., Cai, Z., & Rus, V. (2019). Effect of Domain Corpus Size and LSA Vector Dimension: A Study in Assessing Student Generated Short Texts in Virtual Internships Without Participant Data. Proceedings of the 32nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2019), Sarasota, FL, USA May 19-22, 2019.
Hampton, A.J. , Rus, V., Andrasik, F., Nye, B., & Graesser, A. (2019). A Conversational Intelligent Agent for Career Guidance and Counseling. Proceedings of the 32nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2019), Sarasota, FL, USA May 19-22, 2019.
Rus, V., Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., Cockroft, J.L. (2019). Standardizing Unstructured Interaction Data in Adaptive Instructional Systems. The 21st HCI International Conference, (HCII 2019), Orlando, FL, USA, July 26–31, 2019.
Rus, V., Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., Cockroft, J.L. (2018). A Computational Perspective of Adaptive Instructional Systems for Standards Design, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Exploring Opportunities to Standardize Adaptive Instructional Systems (AISs) in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2019), London, United Kingdom, June 27-30, 2018.
Maharjan, N., Gautam, D., & Rus, V. (2018). Discovering Effective Tutorial Strategies in Human Tutorial Sessions, Proceedings of the 31st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2018), Melbourne Beach, FL, USA May 21-23, 2018.
Swiecki, Z., Rus, V., Cai, Z., Gautam, D. & Shaffer, D.W. (2018). Comparing General and Domain-Specific LSA Classifiers in the Context of Virtual Internships, Proceedings of the 31st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2018), Melbourne Beach, FL, USA May 21-23, 2018.
Maharjan, N., & Rus. V. (2018). A Tutorial Markov Analysis of Effective Human Tutorial Sessions, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications, pages 30–34, Melbourne, Australia, July 19, 2018.
Gautam, D. & Rus, V. (2018). Long Short Term Memory based Models for Negation Handling in Tutorial Dialogues, Proceedings of the 31st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2018), Melbourne Beach, FL, USA May 21-23, 2018.
Rus, V. (2018). Explanation-based Automated Answer Assessment of Open Ended Learner Responses, Proceedings of The 14th International Scientific Conference eLearning and Software for Education, Bucharest, Romania, April 19-20, 2018.
Maharjan, N., Gautam, D., & Rus, V. (2018). Assessing Freely-Generated Student Answers in Tutorial Dialogues Using LSTM Models, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2019), London, United Kingdom, June 27-30, 2018.
Gautam, D., Maharjan, N., Graesser, A., & Rus, V. (2018). Automated Speech Act Categorization of Chat Utterances in Virtual Internships, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2018), Buffalo, NY, July 15-18, 2018.
Rus, V., Hampton, A.J., Andrassik, F., Graesser, A.C. (2018). Claire the Counselor: The Promise and Design of a Career Guidance and Counseling Agent, IMS2018: Third International Workshop on Intelligent Mentoring Systems, in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED2018, London, UK, 27- 30 June, 2018.
Rus, V., Gautam, D., Bowman, D., Graesser, A.C., Shaeffer, D. (2017). Markov Analysis of Students' Professional Skills in Virtual Internships, Proceedings of the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2017), San Marco Island, Florida, USA May 16-18, 2017. [NOMINATED FOR BEST PAPER AWARD]
Maharjan, N., Banjade, R., Gautam, D., Tamang, L.J., Rus, V. (2017). DT_Team at SemEval-2017 Task 1: Semantic Similarity Using Alignments, Sentence-Level Embeddings and Gaussian Mixture Model Output, Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017),
Banjade, R., Maharjan, N., Gautam, D., Adrasik, F., Graesser, A.C., and Rus, V. (2017). Pooling Word Vector Representations across Models, 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, April 17-23, 2017, Budapest, Hungary.
Maharjan, N., Banjade, R., Rus, V. (2017). Automated Assessment of Open-ended Student Answers in Tutorial Dialogues Using Gaussian Mixture Models, Proceedings of the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2017), San Marco Island, Florida, USA May 16-18, 2017. [NOMINATED FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD]
Gautam, D., Swiecki, Z., Shaffer, D.W., Graesser, A.C., Rus, V. (2017). Modeling Classifiers for Virtual Internships Without Participant Data, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Wuhan, China, June 25 - June 28, 2017.
Rus, V., Maharjan, N., Tamang, L.J., Yudelson, M., Berman, S., Fancsali, S.E., Ritter, S. (2017). An Analysis of Human Tutors’ Actions In Tutorial Dialogues, Proceedings of the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2017), San Marco Island, Florida, USA May 16-18, 2017.
Maharjan, N., Tamang, L.J., and Rus, V. (2017). Towards The Discovery of Effective Tutorial Strategies Employed by Professional Tutors, The Second International Workshop on Intelligent Mentoring Systems, The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Wuhan, China, June 28 - July 2, 2017.
Banjade, R., Niraula, N., and Rus, V. (2016). Towards Intra- and Inter-Sentential Negation Scope and Focus Detection in Tutorial Dialogue. Proceedings of the Twenty-Nineth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2016), Key Largo Resort, Key Largo, Florida, USA May 16-18, 2016.
Banjade, R., Maharjan, N., Niraula, N.B., and Rus, V. (2016). DT-Sim at Semeval-2016 task 2: Interpretable semantic textual similarity. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016), San Diego, California, June. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Banjade, R., Maharjan, N., Gautam, D., and Rus, V. (2016). DTSim at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Semantic Similarity Model Including Multi-Level Alignment and Vector-Based Compositional Semantics, In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016), The 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies will be held in San Diego, California, June 12 to June 17, 2016.
Rus, V., Banjade, R., Maharjan, N., Morrison, D., Ritter, S., and Yudelson, M. (2016). Preliminary Results on Dialogue Act Classification in Chatbased Online Tutorial Dialogues, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Raleigh, NC, June 29 - July 2, 2016.
Venugopal, D. and Rus, V. (2016). Joint Inference for Mode Identification in Tutorial Dialogues, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016), Osaka, Japan, December 11-16, 2016
Rus, V., Banjade, R., Niraula, N., Gire, E., Franceschetti, D. (2016). The 3rd International Conference On Smart Learning Environments, Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, pp. 171-181, Springer, 2016.
Banjade, R., Maharjan, N., Niraula, N.B., Gautam, D., Samei, B., and Rus, V. (2016). Evaluation Dataset (DT-Grade) and Word Weighting Approach towards Constructed Short Answers Assessment in Tutorial Dialogue Context, The 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (NAACL 2016), The 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies will be held in San Diego, California, June 12 to June 17, 2016.
Rus, V., Gautam, D., Swiecki, Z., Shaffer, D.W., Graesser, A.C. (2016). Assessing Student-Generated Design Justifications in Engineering Virtual Internships, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Raleigh, NC, June 29 - July 2, 2016.
Fancsali, S.E., Ritter, S., Berman, S.R., Yudelson, M., Rus, V., and Morrison, D.M. (2016). Toward Integrating Cognitive Tutor Interaction Data with Human Tutoring Text Dialogue Data in LearnSphere, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Raleigh, NC, June 29 - July 2, 2016.
Ritter, S., Fancsali, S.E., Yudelson, M., Rus. V., and Berman, S. (2016). Toward Intelligent Instructional Handoffs Between Humans and Machines, 30th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016), Barcelona, Spain, December 5-10, 2016.
Rus, V., Niraula, N., Maharjan, N., & Banjade, R. (2015). Automated Labelling of Dialogue Modes in Tutorial Dialogues, Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2015, May 18-20, 2015, Hollywood, Florida, AAAI Press 2015.
Niraula, N., Gautam, D., Banjade, R., Maharjan, N., Rus, V. (2015). Combining Word Representations for Measuring Word Relatedness and Similarity, Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2015, May 18-20, 2015, Hollywood, Florida, AAAI Press 2015.
Banjade, R., Rus, V., Niraula, N. (2015). Using an Implicit Method for Coreference Resolution and Ellipsis Handling in Automatic Student Answer Assessment, Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2015, May 18-20, 2015, Hollywood, Florida, AAAI Press 2015.
Niraula, N., & Rus, V. (2015). Judging the Quality of Automatically Generated Gap-fill Question using Active Learning, Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2015, pages 196–206, Denver, Colorado, June 4, 2015.
Lintean, M. & Rus, V. (2015). An Optimal Quadratic Approach to Monolingual Paraphrase Alignment, The 20th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2015), Lithuania, Vilnius, 11 - 13 May 2015.
Banjade, R., Maharjan, N., Niraula, N., Rus, V., & Gautam, D. (2015). Lemon and Tea Are Not Similar: Measuring Word-to-Word Similarity by Combining Different Methods, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 9041, 2015, pp 335-346.
Rus, V., Niraula, N., & Banjade, R. (2015). DeepTutor: An Effective, Online Intelligent Tutoring System That Promotes Deep Learning, The Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15). January 25–30, 2015, Austin, Texas, USA.
Samei, B., Rus, V., Nye, B., & Morrison, D. (2015). Hierarchical Dialogue Act Classification in Online Tutoring Sessions, The Eighth International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2015), Madrid, Spain. June 26-29, 2015.
Rus, V., Graesser, A., Niraula, N., & Banjade, R. (2015). DeepTutor: Integrating Learning Progressions In Unsupervised After-school Online Intelligent Tutoring, The 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015), June 22-26, 2015, Madrid, Spain.
Rus, V., Maharjan, N., & Banjade, R. (2015). Unsupervised Discovery of Tutorial Dialogue Modes in Human-to-Human Tutorial Data, The 3rd Generalized Intelligent Tutoring Framework Symposium, June 17-18, Orlando, FL. [PDF]
Rus, V. & Stefanescu, D. (2015). Towards Non-Intrusive Assessment in Dialogue-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems, The 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning Environments, September 23-25, Sinaia, Romania. [BEST PAPER AWARD] [PDF]
Banjade, R., Niraula, N., Maharjan, N., Rus, V., Stefanescu, D., Lintean, M., & Gautam, D. (2015). NeRoSim: A System for Measuring and Interpreting Semantic Textual Similarity, Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015), pages 164-171, Denver, Colorado, June 4-5, 2015. [WINNER OF SEMEVAL COMPETITION] [PDF]
Lintean, M. & Rus, V. (2015). An Optimal Quadratic Approach to Monolingual Paraphrase Alignment, The 20th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2015), Lithuania, Vilnius, 11 - 13 May 2015. [PDF]
Stefanescu, D., Graesser, A.C., & Rus, V. (2014). Assessing Students' Prior Knowledge From Tutorial Dialogues, The 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. EDM 2014. July 4, 2014. [PDF]
Shala, L., Rus., V. & Graesser, A.C. (2014). A Bilingual Analysis of Cohesion in a Corpus of Leader Speeches, The 27th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS 2014), May 21-23, Pensacola Beach, FL, USA. [PDF]
Niraula, N. & Rus, V. (2014). A Machine Learning Approach to Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue based Intelligent Tutoring Systems, In Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2014), April 6-12, Kathmandu, Nepal. [PDF]
Rus, V., Stefanescu, D., Baggett, W., Niraula, N., Franceschetti, D., & Graesser, A.C. (2014). Macro-adaptation in Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Matters, The 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, June 5-9, Honolulu, Hawaii. [PDF]
Rus, V., Niraula, N., & Banjade, R. (2013). Similarity Measures based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation. The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2013), March 24-30, Samos, Greece. [PDF]
Rus, V., Lintean, M., Banjade, R., Niraula, N., & Stefanescu, D. (2013). SEMILAR: The Semantic Similarity Toolkit. The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), August 4-9, Sofia, Bulgaria. [PDF]
Rus, V., Niraula, N., Lintean, M., Banjade, R., Stefanescu, D., & Baggett, W. (2013). Recommendations for the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring based on the Development of the DeepTutor Tutoring Service, Workshop on Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT), The 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2013), July 9-13, Memphis, TN. [PDF]
Rus, V., Niraula, N., Banjade, R. (2013). A Study of Probabilistic and Algebraic Methods for Semantic Similarity, The 26th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS 2013), May 22-24, 2013, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [PDF]
Morrison, D. M. & Rus, V. (2013). The SCHOLAR Legacy: A New Look at the Affordances of Semantic Networks for Conversational Agents, Workshop on Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT), The 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2013), July 9-13, Memphis, TN. [PDF]
Niraula, N., Rus, V., & Stefanescu, D. (2013). DARE: Deep Anaphora Resolution Engine. The 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2013), July 6-9, Memphis, TN. [PDF]
Rus, V., Banjade, R., Lintean, M., Niraula, N., & Stefanescu, D. (2013). SEMILAR: A Semantic Similarity Toolkit for Assessing Students' Natural Language Inputs, The 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2013), July 6-9, Memphis, TN. [PDF]
Samei, B., Feshktar, F., Rus, V., Graesser, A.C. (2013). A Tool For Speech Act Classification Using Interactive Machine Learning, The 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2013), July 6-9, Memphis, TN. [PDF]
Niraula, N., Banjade, R., Stefanescu, D., Rus, V. (2013). Experiments with Semantic Similarity Measures based on LDA and LSA. The 1st International Conference on Statistical Speech and Language Processing (SLSP 2013), July 29-31, Tarragona, Spain. [PDF]
Rus, V., Banjade, R., Niraula, N., & Stefanescu, D. (2013). Latent Concepts versus Latent Topics. In Proceedings of The 23rd Meeting of The Society for Text and Discourse, July 16-18, Valencia, Spain. [PDF]
Rus, V., Niraula, N. (2012). Automated Detection of Local Coherence in Short Essays Based on Centering Theory", The 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2012), March 11-17, IIT Delhi, India. (BEST PAPER AWARD) [PDF]
Rus, V., Lintean, M. (2012). "A Comparison of Greedy and Optimal Assessment of Natural Language Student Input Using Word-to-Word Similarity Metrics", Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP, The 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, June, 2012, Montreal, Canada. [PDF]
Rus, V., Lintean, M., Moldovan, C., Baggett, W., Niraula, N., Morgan, B. (2012). The SIMILAR Corpus: A Resource to Foster the Qualitative Understanding of Semantic Similarity of Texts, In Semantic Relations II: Enhancing Resources and Applications, The 8th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2012), May 23-25, Instanbul, Turkey. [PDF]
Lintean, M. & Rus, V. (2012). Measuring Semantic Similarity in Short Texts through Greedy Pairing and Word Semantics. Proceedings of the 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. Marco Island, FL. [PDF]
Rus, V., Graesser, A., Moldovan, C., & Niraula, N. (2012). "Automatic Discovery of Speech Act Categories in Educational Games", 5th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM12), June 19-21, Chania, Greece. [PDF]
Bhattarai, A., Niraula, N., Rus, V., Lin, K. (2012). "A Domain Independent Framework to Extract and Aggregate Analogous Features in Reviews", Cicling 2012, March 11-17, IIT Delhi, India. [PDF]
Liu, M., Calvo, R.A., & Rus, V. (2012). Hybrid Question Generation Approach for Critical Review Writing Support. G. Biswas et al. (Eds.) (2012). Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computers in Education. Singapore: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. [PDF]
Rus, V., Wyse, B., Lintean, M., Piwek, P., Stoyanchev, S., Moldovan, C. (2011). Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge - Status Report, Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG), Nancy, France, September 2011. [PDF]
Rus, V., Moldovan, C., Witherspoon, A., & Graesser, A.C. (2011). Automatic Identification of Speakers' Intentions in A Multi-Party Dialogue System, International Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, Poitier, France, July 2011. [PDF]
Lintean, M., & Rus, V. (2011). Dissimilarity Kernels for Paraphrase Identification, Proceedings of the 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, Palm Beach, FL, May, 2011. [PDF]
Rus, V., Feng, S., Brandon, R., Crossley, S., & McNamara, D.S. (2011). A Linguistic Analysis of Student Generated Paraphrases, Proceedings of the 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, Palm Beach, FL, May, 2011. [PDF]
Moldovan, C., Rus, V., & Graesser, A.C. (2011). Automated Speech Act Classification for Online Chat, The 22nd Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, Cincinatti, OH, April 2011 (Best Student Paper Award - Honorary Mention). [PDF]
Rus, V., Wyse, B., Piwek, P., Lintean, M., Stoyanchev, S., & Moldovan, C. (2010). Overview of The First Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, In Proceedings of The 3rd Question Generation Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 2010. [PDF]
Rus, V., Wyse, B., Piwek, P., Lintean, M., Stoyanchev, S., & Moldovan, C. (2010). The First Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, In Proceedings of The International Natural Language Generation Conference, Dublin, Ireland, July, 2010. [PDF]
Liu, M., Calvo, R.A., Rus, V. (2010). Automatic Question Generation for Literature Review Writing Support, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (1) 2010: 45-54. [PDF]
Shala, L., Rus, V., & Graesser, A. (2010). Speech Act Classification in Arabic. Georgetown University Round Table (GURT 2010), Georgetown, D.C., March 2010. [PDF]
Rus, V., Shala, L., Graesser, A.C., Cai, Z., & Kaltner, J. (2010). Analysis of Leaders' Language and Discourse. International Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL, August 2010. [PDF]
Lintean, M., Moldovan, C., Rus, V., & McNamara, D. (2010). The Role of Local and Global Weighting in Assessing The Semantic Similarity Of Texts using Latent Semantic Analysis. Proceedings of the 23st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. Daytona Beach, FL. [PDF]
Rus, V., Lintean, M., & Azevedo, R., (2010). Computational Aspects of The Intelligent Tutoring System MetaTutor. Proceedings of the 23st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. Daytona Beach, FL. [PDF]
Rus, V., Nan, X., Shiva, S., & Chen, Y. (2009). Clustering of Defect Reports Using Graph Partitioning Algorithms, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software and Knowledge Engineering, July 2-4, 2009, Boston, MA
Rus, V., Lintean, M., and Azevedo, R. (2009). Automatic Detection of Student Mental Models During Prior Knowledge Activation in MetaTutor, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, July 1-3, 2009, Cordoba, Spain
Rus, V, Lintean, M., Graesser, A.C., McNamara, D.S. (2009). Assessing Student Paraphrases Using Lexical Semantics and Word Weighting, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, July 6-10, 2009, Brighton, UK
Rus, V., Woolley, E., Lintean, M., & Graesser, A.C. (2009). Building Resources for an Open Task on Question Generation, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Question Generation, July 6, 2009, Brighton, UK.
Lintean, M. & Rus, V. (2009). Paraphrase Identification Using Weighted Dependencies and Word Semantics, Proceedings of the 22nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. Menlo Park, CA: The AAAI Press.
Bhattarai, A., Rus, V., & Dasgupta, D. (2009). Characterizing Comment Spam in the Blogosphere through Content Analysis, IEEEs Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security 2009, March 30 - April 2, 2009, Nashville, TN [BEST PAPER AWARD]
Graesser, A.C., Cai, Z., & Rus, V. (2008). Question Classification Schemes, Proceedings of the NSF-sponsored Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, Arlington, VA
Rus, V., Cai, Z., & Graesser, A.C. (2008). Question Generation: An Example of a Multi-Year Evaluation Campaign, Proceedings of the NSF-sponsored Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, Arlington, VA
Rus, V., Mohammed, S., & Shiva, S. (2008). Automatic Clustering of Defect Reports, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software and Knowledge Engineering (pp. 291-297), Redwood City, CA
Rus, V., Kasturi, S., & Shiva, S. (2008). Defect Reports Can Be Automatically Clustered Based on Their Summaries, In I. Stamelos and M. Vazirgiannis, Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Software Engineering Workshop, 20-21 July
Stoian, R., Rus, V., Lintean, M.,, & Shiva, S. (2008). Predicting Defects in Large Open Source Software, In V. Rus & T. Lee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Research Workshop on Systems Testing (pp. 79-88), Memphis, TN
Rus, V., Lintean, M., McCarthy, P.M., McNamara, D.S., & Graesser, A.C. (2008). Paraphrase identification with lexico-syntactic graph subsumption. In D. Wilson & G. Sutcliffe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (pp. 201-206). Menlo Park, CA: The AAAI Press.
Andrew Neel, Garzon, M., & Rus, V. (2008). A Semantic Method for Textual Entailment. In D. Wilson & G. Sutcliffe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (pp. 201-206). Menlo Park, CA: The AAAI Press.
McCarthy, P.M., Rus, V., Lintean, M., McNamara, D.S., & Graesser, A.C. (2008). Assessing Forward-, Reverse-, and Average-Entailment Indices on Natural Language Input from the Intelligent Tutoring System, iSTART. In D. Wilson & G. Sutcliffe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (pp. 201-206). Menlo Park, CA: The AAAI Press.
Rus, V., McCarthy, P.M., Lintean, M.C., Graesser, A.C., & McNamara, D.S., (2007). Assessing student self-explanations in an intelligent tutoring system. In D. S. McNamara and G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
Lintean, M., & Rus, V. (2007). Large Scale Experiments with Function Tagging. Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering: Principles and Techniques, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 5-7, 2007.
Rus, V. & Shiva, S. (2007). A General Framework for Information Processing with Application to Quantitative Software Testing, In Proceedings of Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Systems Testing, Memphis, TN, May 6-8, 2007.
Lintean, M., & Rus, V. (2007). Naive Bayes and Decision Trees for Function Tagging. In D. Wilson and G. Sutcliffe (Eds.), Proceedings of the twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (pp. 247-252). Menlo Park, California: The AAAI Press.
McCarthy, P.M., Rus, V., Crossley, S.A., Bigham, S.C., Graesser, A.C., & McNamara, D.S. (2007). Assessing entailer with a corpus of natural language. In D. Wilson and G. Sutcliffe (Eds.), Proceedings of the twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (pp. 247-252). Menlo Park, California: The AAAI Press.
Rus, V., Cai, Z., Graesser, A.C. (2007). Evaluation in Natural Language Generation: The Question Generation Task, Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation, Arlington, VA, April 20-21, 2007.
Rus, V., Cai, Z., Graesser, A.C. (2007). Experiments on Generating Questions About Facts. Alexander F. Gelbukh (Ed.): Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 8th International Conference, CICLing 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, February 18-24, 2007
Rus, V., Ravi, S., Lintean, M., & McCarthy, P.M. (2007). Unsupervised Method for Parsing Coordinated Base Noun Phrases. Alexander F. Gelbukh (Ed.): Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 8th International Conference, CICLing 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, February 18-24, 2007
Rus, V. & Graesser, A.C. (2006). Deeper Natural Language Processing for Evaluating Student Answers in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06)
Rus, V. & Graesser, A.C. (2006). The Look and Feel of a Confident Entailer, Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 24-26, Genoa, Italy
Rus, V. (2006) Dependency-based Textual Entailment, Proceedings of the International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, May 13-15, 2006, Melbourne, FL
Rus, V. (2006) Two Related Lexico-Syntactic Approaches to Textual Entailment, Proceedings of the Second Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge, April 10, Venice, Italy
Rus, V., McCarthy, P.M., & Graesser, A.C. Rus, V., (2006). Analysis of a Textual Entailer, International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-06), February, Mexico City, Mexico
Vasile Rus, Art Graesser, Phil McCarthy, King-Ip Lin: A Study on Textual Entailment, IEEE's International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2005), November 14-16, 2005, Hong Kong
Vasile Rus, Art Graesser, Kirtan Desai: Lexico-Syntactic Subsumption for Textual Entailment, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2005), Borovets, Bulgaria, September 21-23, 2005
Christian Hempelmann, Vasile Rus, Art Graesser, and Danielle McNamarra: Evaluating State-of-the-Art Treebank-Style Parsers for Coh-Metrix and Other Learning Technology Environments, Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005), June 25-30, 2005, Ann-Harbor, MI
Vasile Rus and Christian Hempelmann: Across-Genres and Empirical Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Treebank-style Parsers, Language Technologies Conference (LTC-05), April 20-23, 2005, Poznan, Poland
Vasile Rus and Kirtan Desai: Assigning function tags with a simple model, International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-05), February 2005, Mexico City, Mexico
Vasile Rus and Alex Fit-Florea: "An Algorithm for Discovering the Underlying Logic Structure of Language", Pacific International Artificial Intelligence Conference, September 2004, Auckland, New Zeeland
Vasile Rus: "A First Exercise for Evaluating Logic Form Identification Systems", Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting, Barcelona , Spain, July 2004
Vasile Rus: "Using Decision Trees for Logic Arguments Identification", June 2004, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Vasile Rus: "Experiments with Machine Learning for Logic Arguments Identification", Midwest Artificial Intelligence Conference (MAICS-2004), April 2004, Schaumburg, IL
Vasile Rus: "From English Sentences to First Order Logic Statements", HICCOMPUTERS-04, January 2004, Honolulu, HI, accepted
Vasile Rus: "A Highly Accurate Iterative Algorithm for Logic Form Identification", International Association of Science and Technology for Economic Development (IASTED) Conference in Information and Knowledge Sharing (IASTED-IKS), November 2003, Scottsdale, AZ
Vasile Rus: "A Bottom-Up Algorithm for Logic Form Transformation of Texts", The 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'03), June 23 - 26, 2003, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada,USA
Vasile Rus, Dan I. Moldovan and Orest Bolohan: Bracketing Compound Nouns for Logic Form Derivation, Proceedings of the FLAIRS 2002 Conference, May 2002, Pensacola, Florida
Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Mihai Surdeanu, Rada Mihalcea, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus, Finley Lacatusu, Paul Morarescu and Razvan Bunescu, Answering Complex, List and Context Questions with LCC's Question-Answering Server, in Proceedings of the 10th Text Retrieval Conference, TREC-10, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2001.
S. Harabagiu, D. Moldovan, P. Morarescu, F. Lacatusu, R. Mihalcea, V. Rus, R. Girju. GISTexter: A System for Summarizing Text Documents, Presented at CM SIGIR'01 Workshop on Text Summarization, New Orleans, 2001.
Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Surdeanu, Razvan Bunescu, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus and Paul Morarescu, The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedbacks in Open-Domain Textual Question Answering, in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2001), [pg.274-281], Toulouse, France, July 2001.
Vasile Rus: High Precision Logic Form Transformation , International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) 2001, November 2001, Dallas, TX
Dan I. Moldovan and Vasile Rus: Logic Form Transformation of WordNet and its Applicability to Question Answering, Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Conference, July 2001,Toulouse, France
Dan I. Moldovan and Vasile Rus: Transformation of WordNet Glosses into Logic Forms, Proceedings of FLAIRS 2001 Conference, May 2001, Key West, Florida
Vasile Rus, Logic Form Transformation For WordNet Glosses and Its Applications, Computer Science Department, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Southern Methodist University, Qualifying Proposal, March 2001.
Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Surdeanu, Razvan Bunescu, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus and Paul Morarescu: The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedbacks in Open-Domain Textual Question Answering. 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2001), July 2001, Toulouse, France.
Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Surdeanu, Razvan Bunescu, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus and Paul Morarescu: Falcon - Boosting Knowledge for Answer Engines. 9th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9), November 2000, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Roxana Girju, Richard Goodrum and Vasile Rus: The Structure and Performance of an Open-Domain Question Answering System, in Proceedings of ACL 2000, Hong Kong, October, 2000.
Dan Moldovan, Roxana Gîrju and Vasile Rus, Domain-Specific Knowledge Acquisition from Text . In Proceedings of the Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP-2000) conference, Seattle, WA., April-May 2000.
Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Richard Goodrum, Roxana Girju and Vasile Rus: LASSO: A Tool for Surfing the Answer Net, in Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-8), November, 1999.
Program Committees
Workshop Co-chair for The 2nd Workshop on Question Generation, Brighton, UK, July 4-5, 2009
Program Committee member for Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, August 6-7, 2009
Program Committee member for European Conference on Data Mining, Algarve, Portugal, June 18-20, 2009
Program Committee member for Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity (CALC-09), in conjunction with NAACL-HLT 2009, Boulder, Colorado, June, 2009
Program Co-chair for the Third International Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Systems Testing, Memphis, TN, May 2009
Program Committee member for the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing (ICST 2009), Denver, Colorado, March 2009
Program Committee member for the 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence techniques in Software Engineering (AISEW 2009), April 22-23, Thessaloniki, Greece
Program Committee member for 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2009), Mexico City, Mexico, February 2009
PC Member the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society International Conference (FLAIRS 2009), Sanibel Island, FL, May 2009
Special Track PC Member for Applied Natural Language Processing, Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society International Conference (FLAIRS 2009), Sanibel Island, FL, May 2009
National Science Foundation Panelist, Spring 2008, non-discloseable details
Program Co-chair for the NSF-sponsored Workshop on The Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, Arlington, VA, September 2008
Reviewer for the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-08), Manchester, UK, August 2008
Reviewer for Society for Text and Discourse Conference, Memphis, TN, July 2008
Program Co-chair for the Second International Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Systems Testing, Memphis, TN, May 2008
Program Committee member for Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2008), Haifa, Israel, February 2008
PC Member the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society International Conference (FLAIRS 2008), Coconut Grove, FL, May 2008
Special Track PC Member for Applied Natural Language Processing, Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society International Conference (FLAIRS 2008), Coconut Grove, FL, May 2008
Program Committee member for the Workshop on Automated Syntactic Annotations for Interoperable Language Resources, Hong Kong, January 2008
PC Member for the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC-2008), Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition track, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil March 16-20, 2008
Program Committee member for the 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2007), Patras, Greece, October 2007
Program Committee member for the Third Language & Technology Conference (LTC-2007), Poznan, Poland, October 2007
Program Committee member for the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Figurative Language, in conjunction with Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2007), Rochester, NY, April 2007
Program Chair for the Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Systems Testing, Memphis, TN, May 2007
Workshops/Tutorials/Panels Chair, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) Mid South 2007 Conference Committee, Monroe, LA, March 2007
Reviewer for School of Languages at the University of Melbourne, 2007
Program Committee member for Eight International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2007), New Mexico, Mexico, February 2007
Special Track PC Member for Machine Learning, Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society International Conference (FLAIRS 2007), Key West, FL, May 2007
Special Track PC Member for Applied Natural Language Processing, Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society International Conference (FLAIRS 2007), Key West, FL, May 2007
Program Committee member for Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2006), New Mexico, Mexico, February 2006
Workshops/Tutorials/Panels Chair, CCSC Mid South 2006 Conference Committee, Memphis, TN, March-April 2006
PC Member for Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society International Conference (FLAIRS 2006), Melbourne Beach, FL, May 2006
Program Committee Member for Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society International Conference (FLAIRS 2005), Clearwater FL, May 2005
Program Committee Member for "Machine Learning" Special Track at Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society International Conference (FLAIRS 2005)
Special Track Co-Chair and Coordinator for "Natural Language based Knowledge Representations: New Perspectives" at Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society International Conference (FLAIRS 2005), Clear Water, FL
Programme Committee Member for Machine Learning Special Track in conjunction with FLAIRS 2004, Miami FL, May 2004
Coordinator of the Logic Form Task international competition (3rd most popular out of 16 tasks in SENSEVAL - see www.senseval.org) in conjunction with ACL 2004
Invited Chair for the Expert Systems session at Florida Artificial Intelligence Society International Conference (FLAIRS 2004), Miami FL, May 2004
Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, 2003 FLAIRS, St.Augustine, May 2003.
Word Sense Disambiguation: Recent Advances and Future Directions, ACL 2002 Workshop, Philadelphia, June, 2002.
Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, 2002 FLAIRS, Pensacola, May 2002.