Craig, S.D., Hu, X., Gholson, B., Marks, W., Graesser, A., & TRG (2000). AutoTutor: A human tutoring simulation with an animated pedagogical agent interface. In P. Hamberger (Ed.), Integrated command environments. San Diago, CA: SPIE Proceedings Series.

Graesser, A.C., Karnavat, A., Pomeroy, V., Wiemer-Hastings, & TRG (2000). Latent semantic analysis captures vestiges iof casual, goal-oriented, and taxonomic structures. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.

Graesser, A., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Kreuz, R., &the Tutoring Research Group (2000). AutoTutor: A simulation of ahuman tutor. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, 1,35-51. PDF version

Graesser, A.C., Person, N., Harter, D., & TRG (2000). Proceedings of the workshop on modeling human teaching tactics and strategies at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2000 conference. University of Quebec at Montreal, 49-57.

Graesser, A.C., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Kreuz, R., & Wiemer-Hastings, P. (2000). QUAID: A questionnaire evaluation aid for survey methodologists. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers.

Graesser, A.C., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Kreuz, R. (2000). The gold standard of question quality on surveys: Experts, computer tools, versus statistical indices. Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods of the American Statistical Association. (pp. 459-464). American Statistical Association.

Graesser, A.C., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Harter, D., Person, N., and the TRG (2000). Using latent semantic analysis to evaluate the contributions of students in AutoTutor. Interactive Learning Environments, 8, 129-148. PDF version

Klettke, B., & Graesser, A.C. (2000). Coherence and evidence in testimony evaluation on incest narratives. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp154-155). Lyon, France.

Link, K., Pomeroy, V., DiPaolo, R., Rajan, S., Klettke, B., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (2000). The effectiveness of tutorial dialog in an automated conversational tutor. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp18-19). Lyon, France.

Marineau, J., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Harter, D., Olde, B., Chipman, P., Karnavat, A., Pomeroy, S., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (June, 2000). Classification of speech acts in tutorial dialog. Proceedings of the workshop on tutorial dialogue at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2000 conference.

Olde, B.A. & Graesser, A.C. (2000). Causal factors that influence story agents' blame and responsibility. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp202-203). Lyon, France.

Person, N.K., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R.J., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (June, 2000). The Dialog Advancer Network: A Conversation Manager for AutoTutor. Proceedings of the workshop on tutorial dialogue at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2000 conference.

Person, N.K., Craig, S., Price, P., Hu, X., Gholson, B., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (2000). Incorporating human-like conversational behaviors in AutoTutor. Proceedings of the Agents 2000 Conference.

Person, N., Graesser, A.C., Harter, D. & TRG (2000). The Dialog Advancer Network: A mechanism for improving AutoTutors conversational skills. proceedings of the 10th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp. 20-21). Lyon, France.

Person, N., Graesser, A.C., Harter, D. & Mathews, E., & TRG (2000). Dialog move generation and conversation management in AutoTutor. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium 2000 on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications (pp 45-51). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Person, N.K., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (2000). AutoTutor's conversational behaviors. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation.

Person, N.K., Graesser, A.C., and the Tutoring Research Group (2000). Designing AutoTutor to be an effective conversational partner. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the Learning Sciences.

Price, P.A., Craig, S., Graesser, A., Marks, W., & TRG (2000). The making of Marco: Incorporating lifelike behaviors in AutoTutor. Proceedings of the Agents 2000 Conference.

Rajan, S., harter, D., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (2000). Back channel feedback in human and intelligent tutoring systems. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp102-103). Lyon, France.

Vidal-Abarca, E., Reyes, H., Gilabert, R., Calpe, J., Soria, E., & Greasser, A.C. (2000). ETAT: A tool to analyze expository text coherence. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp 88-99). Lyon, France.

Wharton, C.,Thompson, J., Sevostianov, A., Graesser, A.C., Fromm, S.J., Courtnew, S., Bowles, A., & Braun, A. (2000). Phonological working memory in narrative construction: An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 11, S356.

Whitten, S.N., Lu., S., & Graesser, A.C. (2000). What determines deep comprehension for illustrated texts. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp 176-177). Lyon, France.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (2000). Verb-based classification of abstract concepts. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp 104-105). Lyon, France.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Rajan, S., Graesser, A.C., Kreuz, R.J., & Karnavat, A. (2000). DP-A detector for presuppositions in survey questions. Proceedings of the Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Graesser, A.C. (2000). Select-a-Kibitzer: A multi-agent architecture for giving feedback on student compositions. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp 96-97). Lyon, France.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Graesser, A.C. (2000). Supporting composition feedback with LS

Invited Presentations

Van Lehn, K., & Graesser, A.C., (March, 2000). Why2000 and AutoTutor. Office of Naval Research contractors meeting. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Graesser, A.C. (August, 2000). Language and discourse structure during the reading of literary texts. Symposium on "Text, Performance, & Reflection: Methods of Access to Literary Reading" at the meetings of the International Association for the Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media, Toronto, CA.

Graesser, A.C. (August, 2000).Symposim on "Memorial session for Steen Folke Larsen" at the meetings of the International Association for the Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media, Toronto, CA.

Graesser, A.C. (September, 2000). Military psychology in personnel management. Paper presented at the Meetings of the 36^th International Applied Military Psychology Symposium, Zagreb, Croatia.

Graesser, A.C., Olde, B.A., & Lu, S. (September, 2000). Question-driven explanatory reasoning about devices that malfunction. Paper presented at the meetings of the 36^th International Applied Military Psychology Symposium, Split, Croatia.

Graesser, A.C. (November, 2000). Chair of panel on "Why is natural language important in intelligent tutoring systems?" AAAI Fall Symposium 2000 on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications, Cape Cod, MA.

Graesser. A.C. (November, 2000). Panel on "Where do we go from here?" AAAI Fall Symposium 2000 on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications, Cape Cod, MA.

Graesser. A.C. (November, 2000). Plenary speaker on "Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications." AAAI Fall Symposium 2000, Cape Cod, MA.

Conferences

Graesser, A.C., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Kreuz, R. (January, 2000). A computer tool that critques survey questions. Paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text & Cognition, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (January, 2000). Abstract concepts hinge on verbs: Predicting abstract concept silarity with verb co-occurrence. Paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text & Cognition, Jackson hole, Wyoming.

Wharton, C.M., Thompson, J., Sevostianov, A., Graesser, A.C., Fromm, S.J., Courtney, S., Bowles, A., & Braun, A.R. (April, 2000). The neural basis of language and situation models. 2000 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Graesser, A.C. (April, 2000). Discussant for symposium on "Technology Tools for Analyzing Student Writing: Applications of Latent Semantic Analysis." American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Graesser, A.C. (April, 2000). Discussant for symposium on "Computer-mediated Learning and Assessment through Discourse Analysis Techniques." American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Rajan, S., Graesser, A.C., Kreuz, R.J., & Karnavat, A. (May, 2000). DP-A detector for presuppositions in survey questions. Meetings of the Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, Seattle, WA.

Graesser, A.C., Person, N., Harter, D., & TRG (June, 2000). Teaching tactics in AutoTutor. Paper presented at the workshop on tutorial dialogue at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2000 Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Graesser, A.C., Whitten, S.N., & Olde, B. (June, 2000). Do males and females differ on mechanical comprehension? Poster presented at the meetings of the American Psychological Society, Miami, FL.

Marineau, J., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Harter, D., Olde, B., Chipman, P., Karnavant, A., Pomeroy, V., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (June, 2000). Classification of speech acts in tutorial dialog. Paper presented at the workshop on tutorial dialogue at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2000 Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Person, N.K., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R.J., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (June, 2000). The Dialog Advancer Network: A Conversation Manager for AutoTutor. Paper presented at the workshop on tutorial dialogue at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2000 Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Person, N.K., Craig, S., Price, P., Hu, X., Gholson, B., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (June, 2000). Incorporating human-like conversational behaviors in AutoTutor. Paper presented at the Workshop on Achieving Human-Like Behavior in Autonomous Agents 2000 Conference, Barcelona, Spain.

Person, N.K., Graesser, A.C. and the Tutoring Research Group (June, 2000). Designing AutoTutor to be an effective conversational partner. Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Price, P.A., Craig, S., Graesser, A., Marks, W., & TRG (June, 2000). The making of Marco: Incorporating lifelike behaviors into AutoTutor. Poster presented at the Workshop on Achieving Human-Like Behavior in Autonomous Agents at the Agents 2000 Conference, Barcelona, Spain.

Wharton, C.M., Thompson, J., Sevostianov, A., Graesser, A.C., Fromm, S.J., Courtney, S., Bowles, A., & Braun, A.R. (June, 2000). Phonological working memory in narrative construction: An fMRI study. Paper presented at the sixth annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, San Antonio, TX.

Craig, S.D., Hu, X., Gholson, B., Marks, W., Graesser, A., & TRG (July, 2000). AutoTutor: A human tutoring simulation with an animated pedagogical agent interface. Paper presented at the International Society for Optical Engineering. San Diego, CA.

Graesser, A.C., Lu, S., Whitten, S., Olde, B., Pomeroy, V., & Craig, S. (July, 2000). Deep and shallow comprehension of illustrated texts on everyday devices. Paper presneted at the meetings of the Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading, Stockholm, Sweden.

Graesser, A.C., Lu, S., & Whitten, S. (July, 2000). Inferences about causal mechanisms that are depicted in illustrated texts on everyday devices. Paper presented at the International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Person, N.K., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (July, 2000). AutoTutor's conversational behaviors. Paper presented at the Third Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Spain.

Klettke, B., & Graesser, A.C. (July, 2000). Coherence and evidence in testimony evaluation on incest narratives. Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France.

Link, K., Pomeroy, V., DiPaolo, R., Rajan, S., Klettke, B., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (July, 2000). The effectiveness of tutorial dialog in an automated conversational tutor. Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France.

Olde, B.A., & Graesser, A.C. (July, 2000). Causal factors that influence story agents' blame and responsibility. Poster presented at the meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France.

Person, N., Graesser, A.C., Harter, D., & TRG (July, 2000). The Dialog Advancer Network: a mechanism for improving AutoTutors conversational skills. Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France.

Rajan, S., Harter, D., Graesser, A.C., & TRG (July, 2000). Back channel feedback in human and intelligent tutoring systems. Poster presented at the meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France.

Vidal-Abarca, E., Reyes, H., Gilabert, R., Calpe, J., Soria, E., & Graesser, A.C. (July, 2000). ETAT: A tool to analyze expository text coherence. Poster presented at the meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France.

Whitten, S.N., Lu, S., & Graesser, A.C. (July, 2000). What determines deep comprehension for illustrated texts. Poster presented at the meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (July, 2000). Verb-based classification of abstract concepts. Poster presented at the meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Graesser, A.C. (July, 2000). Select-a-Kibitzer: A multi-agent architecture for giving feedback on student compositions. Poster presented at the meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France.

Craig, S., Graesser, A.C., Cregger, M. (August, 2000). Who wants what in a story: The effects of reader's impressions of the characters. Paper presented at the meetings of the International Association for the Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media, Toronto, CA.

Graesser, A.C., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Kreuz, R. (August, 2000). The gold standard of question quality on surveys: Experts, computer tools, versus statistical indices. Paper presented in a symposium on "Interdisciplinary survey research at intersections of the computer and cognitive sciences." American Stuatistical Association, Indianapolis, IN.

Graesser, A.C., Karnavat, A., Pomeroy, V., Wiemer-Hastings, & TRG (August, 2000). Latent semantic analysis captures vestigaes of causal, goal-oriented, and taxonomic structures. Paper presented at the meetings of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Whitten, S., & Graesser, A.C. (August, 2000). Thematic processing of narrative text. Paper presented at the meetings of the International Association for the Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media, Toronto, CA.

Person, N.K., Graesser, A.C., Harter, D., Mathews, E., & TRG (November, 2000). Dialog move generation and conversation management in AutoTutor. Paper presented at the AAAI Fall Symnposium 2000 on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications, Cape Code, MA

Whitten, S.N., & Graesser, A.C. (November 2000). Understanding the whole story: Thematic inferences are generated spontaneously. Paper presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

Book Chapters

Graesser, A.C., Bowers, C.A., Bayen, U.J., Hu, X. (2000). Who said what? Who knows what? Tracking speakers and knowledge in narrative. In W. van Peer & S. Chatman, (Eds.), Narrative perspective: Cognition and emotion. New York: SUNY Press.

Book Reviews

Graesser, A.C., & Hoeffner, J. (2000). Complex computer models are needed to understand complex learning. Contemporary Psychology.

Graesser, A.C., & Whitten, S. (2000). Review of Walter Kintsch's book, " "Comprehension: A paradigm in cognition. Journal of Pragmatics.

Other (universities/industry)

Graesser, A.C. (2000, November). Studies of tutoring in computers and humans. Colloquium at University of Texas at Autsin.

Graesser, A.C. (2000, December). Studies of tutoring in computers and humans. Colloquium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Publications for 1999

Books (authored, edited)

Goldman, S., Graesser, A. C., & van den Broek, P. (1999)(Eds.). Narrative comprehension, causality, and coherence. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Franklin, S.B., & Graesser, A.C. (1999). A software agent model of consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 8, 285-301.

Graesser, A.C., Bowers, C.A., Olde, B., & Pomeroy, V. (1999). Who said what? Source memory for narrator and character agents in literary short stories. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 284-300.

Graesser, A.C., Bowers, C., Olde, B., White, K., & Person, N. (1999). Who knows what: Propagation of knowledge among agents in a literary storyworld. Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts, 26, 143-175.

Graesser, A.C., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Kreuz, R., & the TRG (1999). Auto Tutor: A simulation of a human tutor. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, 1, 35-51.

Krovi, R., Graesser, A.C., and Pracht, W.E. (1999). Agent behaviors in virtual negotiation environments. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 29, 15-25.

Magliano, J. P., Trabasso, T., Graesser, A. C. (1999). Strategic Processing During Comprehension. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91(4), 615-629.

Ottati, V., Rhoads, S., & Graesser, A.C. (1999). The effect of metaphor on processing style in a persuasion task: A motivational resonance model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 688-697.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1999). Perceiving abstract concepts. Brain and Behavior Sciences.

Craig, S.D., Hu, X., Marks, W., Graesser, A.C., & the Tutoring Research Group (1999). Source monitoring among multiple virtual agents: A study of who said what. In G. Cumming, T. Okamoto, & L. Gomez (Eds.), Advanced research in computers and communications in education: New human abilities for the networked society, Vol. 1 (pp. 141-148). Washington, DC: IOS Press.

Goldman, S.R., Graesser, A.C., & van den Broek, P. (1999). Essays in honor of Tom Trabasso. In Goldman, S.R., Graesser, A.C., and van den Broek, P. (Eds). Narrative comprehension, causality, and coherence (pp. 1-10). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Graesser, A.C., Kennedy, T., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Ottati, V. (1999). The use of computational cognitive models to improve questions on surveys and questionnaires. In M.G. Sirken, D.J. Hermann, S. Schechter, N. Schwarz, J.M. Tanur, & R. Tourangeau (Eds.), Cognition and survey methods research (pp. 69-86). New York: Wiley.

Graesser, A.C., Kennedy, T.., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Ottati, V.C. (1999). The use of computational cognitive models to improve questions on surveys and questionnaires. In M.G. Sirken, T. Jabine, G. Willis, E. Martin, & C. Tucker (Eds.), A new agenda for interdisciplinary survey research methods (p. 28). Hyatstsville, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services.

Graesser, A.C., & Wiemer-Hastings, K. (1999). Situation models and concepts in story comprehension. In Goldman, S.R., Graesser, A.C., and van den Broek, P. (Eds). Narrative comprehension, causality, and coherence (pp. 77-92). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Magliano, J.P., Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser, A.C. (1999). The role of situational continuity in narrative understanding. In S.R. Goldman and H. van Oostendorp (Eds.), The construction of mental representations during reading. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Person, N.K, & Graesser, A.C. (1999). Evolution of discourse in cross-age tutoring. In A.M. O?Donnell and A. King (Eds.), Cognitive perspectives on peer learning (pp. 69-86). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Whitten, S.N., & Graesser, A.C. (1999). Lo studio sistematico della comprensione del discorso (The systematic study of discourse comprehension.) In A. Nemesio (Ed.), L?esperienza del testo (Empirical research on text studies.) Meltemi Editore: Rome.

Corbett, A., Anderson, J., Graesser, A., Koedinger, K., & Van Lehn, K. (1999). Third generation computer tutors: Learn from or ignore human tutors? Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of Computer-Human Interaction (pp. 85-86). New York: ACM Press.

Du Boulay, B., Greer, J., Lepper, M., Graesser, A., Van Lehn, K., & Moore, J. (1999). Panel on issues involving human and computer tutoring. In S.P. Lajoie and M. Vivet, Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 780-781). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Graesser, A.C., & Craig, S. (1999). The construction of multiple agents during the comprehension of discourse and literary short stories. In A.B. Gomez, AESLA Proceedings.

Olde, B.A., Hoeffner, J., Chipman, P., Graesser, A.C., and the Tutoring Research Group (1999). A connectionist model for part of speech tagging. Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (pp. 172-176). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1999). A neural network analysis of sentence context features: A comparison of abstract versus concrete nouns. Proceedings of the 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Graesser, A., and the Tutoring Research Group (1999). Approximate natural language understanding for an intelligent tutor. Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (pp. Xx-xx). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., and Graesser, A. (1999). Improving an intelligent tutor's comprehension of students with Latent Semantic Analysis. In S.P. Lajoie and M. Vivet, Artificial Intelligence in Education )pp. 535-542). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Graesser, A.C. and Hacker, D. (1999, April). AutoTutor: An automated computer tutor. Invited symposium on intelligent tutoring systems at the meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

Graesser, A.C., Craig, S., Pomeroy, V., & Olde, B. (1999, April). Deep comprehension of illustrated texts in the context of a breakdown scenario. Invited symposium on discourse comprehension at the meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

Graesser, A.C., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Hacker, D. (1999, May). Progress report on NSF grant, ?Simulating tutors with natural dialog and pedagogical strategies?, at the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.

Graesser, A.C., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Kreuz, R. (1999, May). Progress report on US Census Bureau grant, ?QUEST questionnaire evaluation tool? at the US Bureau of Census, Arlington, Virginia.

Graesser, A.C. (1999, May). Invited panel symposium on intelligent tutoring systems. Symposium at the Computer Human Interaction Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Du Boulay, B., Greer, J., Lepper, M., Graesser, A., Van Lehn, K., & Moore, J. (1999, July). Panel on issues involving human and computer tutoring. Invited panel at the meetings of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Lemans, France.

Graesser, A.C. (1999, February). Deep comprehension of illustrated texts about everyday devices. Colloquium at the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.

Graesser, A.C. (1999, February). Question-driven explanatory reasoning about devices that malfunction. Progress report to the Navy on Office of Naval Research grant, Oxford, Mississippi.

Graesser, A.C. (1999, February). Question-driven explanatory reasoning about devices that malfunction. Progress report to the Navy on Office of Naval Research grant, Millington, Tennessee.

Graesser, A.C. (1999, June). Discourse and cognition in written comprehension. Invited workshop at Catholic University of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile.

Graesser, A.C. (1999, August). AutoTutor, an automated computer tutor. Invited workshop at Fordham University, New York, New York.

Graesser, A.C. (1999, October). AutoTutor: A simulation of human and ideal tutors. Colloquium at University of Illinois at Chicago.

Graesser, A.C. (1999, November). AutoTutor: A simulation of human and ideal tutors. Colloquium at Iowa State University.

Graesser, A.C. (1999, November). AutoTutor: A simulation of human and ideal tutors. Invited presentation for the Defense Science Board, Arlington, VA.

Graesser, A.C. (1999, November). AutoTutor: Computer simulation of tutoring. Invited presentation at Thoughtware, Memphis, TN.

Graesser, A.C. (1999, December). Tutoring by humans and computers. TalkBank workshop funded by the National Science Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1999, January). Using latent semantic analysis to evaluate tutee contributions. Paper presented at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text & Cognition, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Graesser, A.C., Pomeroy, V., & Craig, S. (1999, January). Think aloud protocols in the context of illustrated texts and devices that malfunction. Paper presented at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text & Cognition, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Olde, B.A., Hoeffner, J., Chipman, P., Graesser, A.C., and the Tutoring Research Group (1999, May). A connectionist model for part of speech tagging. Paper presented at the 12th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., and Graesser, A. (1999, May). Approximate natural language understanding for an intelligent tutor. Paper presented at the 12th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Corbett, A., Anderson, J., Graesser, A., Koedinger, K., & van Lehn, K. (1999, May). Third generation computer tutors: Learn from or ignore human tutors? Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of Computer-Human Interaction Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., Preuss, M., & Graesser, A.C. (1999, June). Vocabulary learning of abstract and concrete word types: What methods work best? Poster to be presented at the Conference of the American Psychological Society, Denver, CO, June 3-6, 1999.

Graesser, A.C., Craig, S., Pomeroy, V. & Olde, B. (1999, July). Comprehension of illustrated texts about everyday devices. Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Boulder, Colorado.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1999, July). Abstract concept representation: Intrinsic or contextual? Poster to be presented at the 8th European Congress of Psychology, Rome, Italy.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1999, July). A neural network analysis of sentence context features: A comparison of abstract versus concrete nouns. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., and Graesser, A., (1999, July). Improving an intelligent tutor's comprehension of students with Latent Semantic Analysis. Paper presented at the 1999 Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, LeMans, France.

DiPaolo, R., Hacker, D., Yetman, S., Whitten, S., and the TRG (1999, August). Mechanisms for generating a hint. Paper presented at the Society for Text and Discourse, Vancouver, Canada.

Whitten, S.N. and Graesser, A.C. (1999, August). Thematic inference in on-line comprehension. Paper presented at the Society for Text and Discourse, Vancouver, Canada.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., Graesser, A.C., & Doyle, C. (1999 August). How often is often? Effects of context on the interpretation of frequency adverbs. Paper presented at the Society for Text and Discourse, Vancouver, Canada.

Klettke, B., Person, N., Graesser, A., Link, K., & Kreuz, R. (1999, October). Integrating affect into AutoTutor's feedback responses. Workshop on Affect in Interactions: Towards a New Generation of Interfaces, Siena, Italy.

Graesser, A.C., Kreuz, R., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Wiemer-Hastings, K. (1999, November). QUEST Questionnaire Evaluation Aid (QQEA): A tool for survey methodologists. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.

Graesser, A.C., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Person, N., & Kreuz, R. (1999, November). Latent semantic analysis can leliably evaluate student contributions in AutoTutor. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Kreuz, R., & Graesser, A.C. (1999, November). A comparison of question critiques provided by the QUEST Questionnaire Evaluation Aid (QQEA) and human raters. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.