Books (authored, edited)

Graesser, A. C., Gernsbacher, M. A., & Goldman, S. R. (Eds.). (2003). Handbook of discourse processes. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. DOC Introduction


Refereed Journal Publications (does not include book chapters)

Craig, S. D., Graesser, A. C., Sullins, J., & Gholson, B. (2004). Affect and learning: An exploratory look into the role of affect in learning with AutoTutor. Journal of Educational Media, 29, 241-250. PDF Version

Driscoll, D. M., Craig, S. D., Gholson, B., Ventura, M., Hu, X., & Graesser, A. C. (2003). Vicarious learning: Effects of overhearing dialog and monologue-like discourse in a virtual tutoring session. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 29(4), 431-450.

Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Person, N. K., Jackson, G. T., & Toth, J. A. (2004). Modules and information retrieval facilities of the human use regulatory affairs advisor (HURAA). International Journal on E-Learning, 3(4), 29-39. PDF Version

Graesser, A. C., Lu, S., Jackson, G. T., Mitchell, H. H., Ventura, M., Olney, A. M., et al. (2004). AutoTutor: A tutor with dialogue in natural language. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36, 180-193.  PDF Version

Graesser, A. C., McNamara, D. S., Louwerse, M. M., & Cai, Z. (2004). Coh-metrix: Analysis of text on cohesion and language. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36(2), 193-202. PDF Version

Graesser, A. C., & Olde, B. A. (2003). How does one know whether a person understands a device? the quality of the questions the person asks when the device breaks down. Journal of Educational Psychology, 95(3), 524-536. DOC Version

Hu, X., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). Human use regulatory affairs advisor (HURAA): Learning about research ethics with intelligent learning modules. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36(2), 241-249.

Penumatsa, P., Ventura, M., Graesser, A. C., Franceschetti, D. R., Louwerse, M., Hu, X., Cai, Z., & the Tutoring Research Group. (2004). The right threshold value: What is the right threshold of cosine measure when using latent semantic analysis for evaluating student answers? International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, 12, 257-279.

Song, K., Hu, X., Olney, A. M., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). A framework of synthesizing tutoring conversation capability with web-based distance education courseware. Computers & Education, 42(4), 375-388.

Book Chapters

DiPaolo, R. E., Graesser, A. C., White, H. A., & Hacker, D. J. (2004). Hints in human and computer tutoring. In M. Rabinowitz (Ed.), The design of instruction and evaluation (pp. 155-182). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Graesser, A. C., Gernsbacher, M. A., & Goldman, S. R. (2003). Introduction to the Handbook of Discourse Processes. In A. C. Graesser, M. A. Gernsbacher, & S. R. Goldman (Eds.), Handbook of discourse processes (pp. 1-24). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. DOC Version

Graesser, A. C., McNamara, D. S., & Louwerse, M. M. (2003). What do readers need to learn in order to process coherence relations in narrative and expository text? In A. P. Sweet, & C. E. Snow (Eds.), Rethinking reading comprehension (pp. 82-98). New York: Guilford.

Whitten, S. N., & Graesser, A. C. (2003). Comprehension of text in problem solving. The psychology of problem solving. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Refereed Conference Publications and Abstracts

Cai, Z., McNamara, D. S., Louwerse, M., Hu, X., Rowe, M., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). NLS: A Non-Latent Similarity Algorithm. In K. D. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 180-185). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. PDF Version

Craig, S. D., D'Mello, S. K., Witherspoon, A., Sullins, J., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). Emotions during learning: The first step toward an affect sensitive intelligent tutoring system. Proceedings of the International Conference on eLearning, 284-288.

Craig, S. D., & Graesser, A. C. (2003). Why am I confused: An exploratory look into the role of affect in learning. In A. Méndez-Vilas & J. A. Mesa Gonzalez (Eds.), Advances in technology-based education: Towards a knowledge-based society (Vol. 3, pp. 1903-1906). Badajoz, Spain: Junta de Extremadura. PDF Version

Franceschetti, D., Adcock, A., & Graesser, A. C. (2003). Analysis of strategies in expert tutoring dialog for use in intelligent tutoring system development. In R. Alterman & D. Hirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston: Cognitive Science Society.

Graesser, A. C. (2003). AutoTutor and other conversational agents that scaffold learning. In F. Schmalhofer, R. M. Young, & G. Katz (Eds.), Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Society 2003 (p. 11).  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Graesser, A. C., Jackson, G. T., Mathews, E. C., Mitchell, H. H., Olney, A., Ventura, M., Chipman, P., Franceschetti, D., Hu, X., Louwerse, M. M., Person, N. K., & the Tutoring Research Group. (2003). Why/AutoTutor: A test of learning gains from a physics tutor with natural language dialog. In R. Alterman & D. Hirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1-5). Boston: Cognitive Science Society. PDF Version

Graesser, A. C., Moreno, K., Marineau, J., Adcock, A., Olney, A., & Person, N. (2003). AutoTutor improves deep learning of computer literacy: Is it the dialog or the talking head? In U. Hoppe, F. Verdejo, & J. Kay (Eds.), Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 47-54). Amsterdam: IOS Press. (Finalist for outstanding paper award). DOC Version

Graesser, A. C., & Petschonek, S. (2004).  Automated systems that analyze text and discourse: QUAID, Coh-Metrix, and AutoTutor. In W. R. Lenderking (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Society of Quality of Life. McLean, VA: Quality of Life Society.   

Graesser, A. C., Ventura, M., Jackson, G. T., Mueller, J., Hu, X., & Person, N. (2003). The impact of conversational navigational guides on the learning, use, and perceptions of users of a web site. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium 2003 on Agent-mediated Knowledge Management (pp. 9-14). Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press.

Hu, X., Cai, Z., Franceschetti, D. R., Penumatsa, P., Graesser, A. C., Louwerse, M. M., et al. (2003). LSA: First dimension and dimensional weighting. In R. Alterman, & D. Hirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2003) (pp. 587-592). Boston: Cognitive Science Society.

Hu, X., Cai, Z., Louwerse, M. M., Olney, A. M., Penumatsa, P., & Graesser, A. C. (2003). A revised algorithm for latent semantic analysis. Proceedings of the 2003 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 1489-1491). San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.

Hu, X., Susarla, S., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). Lesson planner: A meta-authoring tool applied to AutoTutor. MERLOT International Conference, Costa Mesa, CA.

Jackson, G. T., Mathews, E. C., Lin, D., Olney, A. M., & Graesser, A. C. (2003). Modeling student performance to enhance the pedagogy of AutoTutor. In P. Brusilovsky, A. T. Corbett & F. de Rosis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on User Modeling (pp. 368-372). Johnstown, PA: Springer. PDF Version

Jackson, G. T., Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). Adaptive tutorial dialogue in AutoTutor. Proceedings of the Workshop on Dialog-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems at the 7^th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil, pp. 9-13.

Jackson, G. T., Ventura, M. J., Chewle, P., Graesser, A. C., and the Tutoring Research Group. (2004). The Impact of Why/AutoTutor on learning and retention of conceptual physics. In J. C. Lester, R. M. Vicari, & F. Paraguacu (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2004 (pp. 501-510). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Louwerse, M. M., Graesser, A. C., and the Tutoring Research Group. (2003). Language use in intelligent tutoring systems: Mixed-initiative dialog in AutoTutor. In A. K. Noor (Ed.), Proceedings of Workshop on Advanced learning technologies and Learning Networks and Their Impact on Future Aerospace Workforce (pp. 251-276). Hanover, MD: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (NASA/CP-2003-212437).

Louwerse, M. M., McCarthy, P. M., McNamara, D. S., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). Variation in language and cohesion across written and spoken registers. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2004) (pp. 843-848). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. PDF Version

Lu, S., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). What is universal in perceiving, remembering, and describing event temporal relations? In K. D. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26TH Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum

Mathews, E. C., Jackson, G. T., Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., & Tutoring Research Group. (2003). Discourse patterns in Why/AutoTutor. In R. Freedman, & C. Callaway (Eds.), Working Papers of the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue (pp. 97-103). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. PDF Version

Mathews, E. C., Jackson, G. T., Olney, A. M., Chipman, P., & Graesser, A. C. (2003). Achieving domain independence in AutoTutor. In N. Callaos, M. Margenstern, J. Zhang, O. Castillo, & E. Doberkat (Eds.), The Seventh World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics Proceedings: Computer Science and Engineering I, Vol. 5 (pp. 172-176). Orlando, FL: IEEE. PDF Version

Olney, A., Louwerse, M., Mathews, E., Marineau, J., Hite-Mitchell, H., & Graesser, A. (2003). Utterance classification in AutoTutor. In J. Burstein & C. Leacock (Eds.), Building Educational Applications using Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology - North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference 2003 Workshop, May 31, 2003 (pp. 1-8). Philadelphia: Association for Computational Linguistics. PDF Version

Penumatsa, P., Ventura, M., Olde, B. A., Franceschetti, D. R., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group. (2003). The right threshold value: What is the right threshold of cosine measure when using latent semantic analysis for evaluating student answers? Proceedings of the 2003 Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Conference. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Person, N., & Graesser, A. C. (2003). Fourteen facts about human tutoring: Food for thought for ITS developers. In V. Aleven, U. Hoppe, J. Kay, R. Mizoguchi, H. Pain, F. Verdejo, & K. Yacef (Eds.), AIED2003 Supplemental Proceedings (pp. 335-344). Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney School of Information Technologies.

Person, N. K., Hancock, J. T., Burke, A. C., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). A linguistic model that infers user states and traits. ITS 2004 Workshop Proceedings on Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments. Maceio, Brazil.  

Susarla, S., Adcock, A., Van Eck, R., Moreno, K., & Graesser, A. C. (2003). Development and evaluation of a lesson authoring tool for AutoTutor. In V. Aleven, U. Hoppe, J. Kay, R. Mizoguchi, H. Pain, F. Verdejo, & K. Yacef (Eds.), AIED2003 Supplemental Proceedings (pp. 378-387). Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney School of Information Technologies. PDF Version

Ventura, M. J., Franchescetti, D. R., Pennumatsa, P., Graesser, A. C., Jackson, G. T., Hu, X., Cai, Z., & the Tutoring Research Group. (2004). Combining computational models of short essay grading for conceptual physics problems. In J. C. Lester, R. M. Vicari, & F. Paraguacu (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2004 (pp. 423-431).  Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Ventura, M., Hu, X., Graesser, A. C., Louwerse, M. M., & Olney, A. M. (2004). The context dependent sentence abstraction model. In K. D. Forbus, D. Gentner & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2004) (pp. 1387-1392). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.