Hacker, D.J., Dunlosky, J., & Graesser, A.C. (1998)(Eds.). Metacognition in educational theory and practice. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Refereed Journal Publications (does not include book chapters)

Graesser, A.C., & Bertus, E.L. (1998). The construction of causal inferences while reading expository texts on science and technology. Scientific Studies of Reading, 2, 247-269.

Graesser, A.C., Kassler, M.A., Kreuz, R.J., & McLain-Allen, B. (1998). Verification of statements about story worlds that deviate from normal conceptions of time: What is true about Einstein's Dreams? Cognitive Psychology, 35, 246-301.

Wiemer-Hastings, K. & Graesser, A.C. (1998). Who needs created features? Brain and Behavior Sciences, 21, 39.

Williams, K.E., Hultman, E., & Graesser, A.C. (1998). CAT: A tool for eliciting knowledge on how to perform procedures. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 30,565-572.

Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser, A.C. (1998). Constructing meaning during reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 2, 195-198.

Graesser, A.C., & Tipping, P. (1998). Understanding texts. In W. Bechtel and G. Graham (Eds.), A companion to cognitive science. (pp. 324-330). Oxford: Blackwell.

Graesser, A.C., Bowers, C.A., Hacker, D.J., & Person, N. K. (1998). An anatomy of naturalistic tutoring. In K. Hogan and M. Pressley (Eds.), Scaffolding of instruction. Brookline Books.

Refereed Conference Publications

Graesser, A.C., Franklin, S., & Wiemer-Hastings, P. and the Tutoring Research Group (1998). Simulating smooth tutorial dialogue with pedagogical value. Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (pp. 163-167). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Hu, X., Graesser, A.C., and the Tutoring Research Group (1998). Using WordNet and latent semantic analysis to evaluate the conversational contributions of learners in tutorial dialog. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education,Vol. 2 (pp. 337-341). Beijing, China: Springer.

McCauley, L., Gholson, B., Hu, X., Graesser, A.C., and the Tutoring Research Group (1998). Delivering smooth tutorial dialogue using a talking head. Proceedings of the Workshop on Embodied Conversation Characters (pp. 31-38). Tahoe City, CA: AAAI and ACM.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1998). Contextual representations of abstract nouns: A neural network approach. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1036-1041). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Graesser, A.C., & Wiemer-Hastings, K. (1998). Inferring the meaning of verbs from context.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1142-1147). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Graesser, A.C., Harter, D., and the Tutoring Research Group (1998). The foundations and architecture of AutoTutor. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 334-343). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.

Zhang, Z., Franklin, S., Olde, B., Wan, Y., & Graesser, A.C. (1998). Natural language sensing for autonomous agents. IEEE Proceedings on Intelligence and Systems.

Graesser, A.C. (April, 1998). The construction of multiple agents during the comprehension of discourse and literary short stories. Annual meeting of AESLA (Spanish Association for Applied Longuistics), LaRioja, Spain. (keynote address)

Graesser, A.C. (April, 1998). How to improve expository text to facilitate comprehension and memory. Annual meeting of AESLA (Spanish Association for Applied Longuistics), LaRioja, Spain.

Graesser, A.C. (1998, April). Presentation of the Sylvia Scribner Award. Presentation at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Graesser, A.C. (July, 1998). Eight cool things from the collocated conferences. Invited panel at the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Madison, WI.

Graesser, A.C., & Kreuz, R. (1998, July). Discourse in contexts of learning. Invited tutorial at the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin.

Graesser, A.C., Craig, S., & Pomeroy, V. (1998, August). How to peddle literature to the hardnose experimental psychologist. Invited presentation at the International Association for the Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Graesser, A.C. (1998, January). Building a fully automated computer tutor. Paper presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Winter Text Conference, Jackson Hole, WY.

Graesser, A.C., & Brogdon, T. (1998, April). Propagating information about who knows what in literary short stories. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, San Diego, CA.

Graesser, A.C., Franklin, S., & Wiemer-Hastings, P. and the Tutoring Research Group (1998, May). Simulating smooth tutorial dialogue with pedagogical value. Paper presented at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Sanibel Island, Florida.

Graesser, A.C., Franklin, S., and the Tutoring Research Group (1998, July). The goals and design of AutoTutor. Symposium presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Madison, Wisconsin.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1998, July). Contextual representations of abstract nouns: A neural network approach. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Graesser, A.C., & Wiemer-Hastings, K. (1998, July). Inferring the meaning of verbs from context. Poster presented at the meetings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Graesser, A.C., Harter, D., and the Tutoring Research Group (1998, August). The foundations and architecture of AutoTutor. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, An Antonio, Texas.

Hu, X., Graesser, A.C., and the Tutoring Research Group (1998, October). Using WordNet and latent semantic analysis to evaluate the conversational contributions of learners in tutorial dialog. Paper presented at the International Conference on Computers in Education, Beijing, China.

McCauley, L., Gholson, B., Hu, X., Graesser, A.C., and the Tutoring Research Group (1998, October). Delivering smooth tutorial dialogue using a talking head. Paper presented at the Workshop on Embodied Conversation Characters (AAAI and ACM). Tahoe City, CA.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Graesser, A. C. (1998, November). The more, the better? The effect of the number of input variables on generalization in neural networks. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Dallas, Texas.

Graesser, A.C. (1998, July). Analysis of verbal comprehension component of the SAT. Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey.

Graesser, A.C. (1998, September). Meeting of the Division C Program Committee of the American Educational Research Association, Memphis, TN.

Graesser, A.C. (1998, October). AutoTutor: An automated computer tutor. Colloquium at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Publications for 1997

Graesser, A.C. (1997). Where is the body in the mental model for a story? Brain and Behavior Sciences, 20, 25.

Graesser, A.C. & Gernsbacher, M.A. (1997). Preface: Discourse processes after two decades. Discourse Processes, 23, 223-224.

Graesser, A.C., Swamer, S., & Hu, X. (1997). Quantitative discourse psychology. Discourse Processes, 23, 229-263.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1997). Requiem for the mind. Siegener Periodicum zur Internationalen Empirischen Literaturwissenschaft, 16, 377-383.

Graesser, A. C., Gernsbacher, M. A., & Goldman, S. (1997). Cognition. In T. Van Dijk (Ed.), Discourse: A multidisciplinary introduction (pp. 292-319). London: Sage.

Graesser, A.C., Bowers, C.A., Hacker, D.J., & Person, N. K. (1997). An anatomy of naturalistic tutoring. In K. Hogan and M. Pressley (Eds.), Effective scaffolding of instruction. Brookline Books.

Graesser, A.C., Millis, K.K., & Zwaan, R.A. (1997). Discourse comprehension. In J.T. Spence, J.M. Darley, and D.J. Foss (Eds.), Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 48. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews Inc.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1997). Interconcept organization of abstract nouns, concrete nouns, and verbs: Hierarchical versus matrix representation. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1085). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Graesser, A.C., & Wiemer-Hastings, K. (1997). Symbolic, statistical, and human verb acquisition. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1086). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Graesser, A.C. (1997). How did I ever remember that song? Contemporary Psychology, 42, 582-583.

Graesser, A.C., & Wiemer-Hastings, P. (1997). What do children write? What do they know about writing? The American Journal of Psychology, 110,.646-651.

Graesser, A.C. (1997). Reflections on IGEL 5 at Nakoda Lodge, Alberta, Canada. IGELnews, 5, 9-11.

Graesser, A.C. (1997, March). Presentation of the 1997 Scribner Award, meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Graesser, A.C., Kennedy, T., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Ottati, V.C. (1997, July). The use of computational cognitive models to improve questions on surveys and questionnaires. Paper presented at the Third Conference on the Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology, Arlington, VA.

Graesser, A.C. (1997, July). World knowledge, and the situation model sometimes reign supreme in text comprehension and inference generation. Conference on Linguistic and Psychological Research on Discourse Coherence, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Graesser, A. C. & White, K (1997, July). When is a summary worth 10,000 words? Meetings of the Seventh Annual Conference on the Society for Text and Discourse, Utrecht, The Netherlands. (keynote address).

Graesser, A.C., Bowers, C.A., & Olde, B. (1997, March). Tracking agents in literary short stories. Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Chicago, IL.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1997, August). Interconcept organization of abstract nouns, concrete nouns, and verbs: Hierarchical versus matrix representation. Meetings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Palo Alto, CA.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Graesser, A.C., & Wiemer-Hastings, K. (1997, August). Symbolic, statistical, and human verb acquisition. Meetings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Palo Alto, Ca.

Graesser, A.C., Olde, B., White, K., & Person, N. (1997, November). Who knows what? Reconstructing character knowledge in literary short stories. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Graesser, A.C. (1997, February). Inferences about agents in narrative comprehension and memory. Invited colloquium at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Graesser, A.C. (1997, April). Inferences about agents in narrative comprehension and memory. Invited colloquium at the University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Graesser, A.C. (1997, April). Inferences about agents in narrative comprehension and memory. Invited colloquium at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

Graesser, A.C. (1997, November). An automated computer tutor. Bellcore, Morristown, NJ. Invited colloquium.