Refereed Journal Publications (does not include book chapters)

Graesser, A. C., Jeon, M., & Dufty, D. (2008). Agent technologies designed to facilitate interactive knowledge construction. Discourse Processes, 45, 298–322. PDF Version 

Graesser, A.C., D’Mello, S.K., Craig, S.D., Witherspoon, A., Sullins, J., McDaniel, B., & Gholson, B. (2008).  The relationship between affect states and dialogue patterns during interactions with AutoTutor.  Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 19, 293-312. PDF Version

D'Mello, S. K., Craig, S.D., Witherspoon, A. W., McDaniel, B. T., and Graesser, A. C. (2008). Automatic Detection of Learner’ Affect from Conversational Cues. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 18(1-2), 45-80. PDF Version

Graesser, A.C., Jackson, G.T., & McDaniel, B. (2007). AutoTutor holds conversations with learners that are responsive to their cognitive and emotional states. Educational Technology, 47, 19-22. DOC Version

VanLehn, K., Graesser, A.C., Jackson, G.T., Jordan, P., Olney, A., & Rose, C.P. (2007). When are tutorial dialogues more effective than reading? Cognitive Science, 31, 3-62. PDF Version

D’Mello, S.K., Picard, R., & Graesser, A.C. (2007). Toward an affect-sensitive AutoTutor. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 22(4), 53-61. PDF Version

Duran, N.D., McCarthy, P.M., Graesser, A.C., & McNamara, D.S. (2007). Using temporal cohesion to predict temporal coherence in narrative and expository texts. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 212-223. PDF Version

Graesser, A.C., Jeon, M., Yang, Y., & Cai, Z. (2007).  Discourse cohesion in text and tutorial dialogue.  Information Design Journa1, 15, 199-213. PDF Version

Graesser, A.C., Wiley, J., Goldman, S.R., O’Reilly, T., Jeon, M., & McDaniel, B. (2007).  SEEK Web Tutor: Fostering a critical stance while exploring the causes of volcanic eruption.  Metacognition and Learning, 2(2-3), 89-105. PDF Version

Book Chapters

De Vega, M., Graesser, A. C., & Glenberg, A. (2008). Reflections on the debate. In M. de Vega, A. Glenberg, & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), Symbols and embodiment: debates on meaning and cognition (pp. 397-440). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Glenberg, A., de Vega, M., & Graesser, A. C. (2008). Framing the debate. In M. de Vega, A. Glenberg, & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), Symbols and embodiment: debates on meaning and cognition (pp. 1-10). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Graesser, A. C., & Jackson, G. T. (2008). Body and symbol in AutoTutor: Conversations that are responsive to the learners' cognitive and emotional states. In M. de Vega, A. Glenberg, & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), Symbols and embodiment: debates on meaning and cognition (pp. 33-56). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. DOC Version

Graesser, A. C., Chipman, P., & King, B. G. (2008). Computer-mediated technologies. In J. M. Spector, M. D. Merrill, J. J. G. van Merriënboer, & M. P. Driscoll (Eds.), Handbook of research on educational communications and technology (3rd ed., pp. 211-224). London: Taylor & Francis.

Graesser, A. C., Jeon, M., Cai, Z., & McNamara, D. S. (2008). Automatic analyses of language, discourse, and situation models. In J. Auracher & W. van Peer (Eds.), New beginnings in literary studies (pp. 72–88). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. DOC Version

Graesser, A.C., Chipman, P., King, B.G. (2008). Computer mediated technologies. In J.M. Spector, M.D. Merrill, J.J.G. van Merrienboer, and M.P. Driscoll (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, Edition 3 (pp. 211-224). London: Taylor & Francis

Graesser, A.C., Jeon, M., McDaniel, B. (2008).  Survey interviews with new communication technologies: Synthesis and future opportunities.  In F.G. Conrad and M.F. Schober (Eds.), Envisioning the survey interview of the future  (pp. 267-284).  New York: Wiley. DOC Version

Graesser, A.C., Louwerse, M.M., McNamara, D., Olney, A., Cai, Z., & Mitchell, H. (2007). Inference generation and cohesion in the construction of situation models: Some connections with computational linguistics. In F. Schmalhofer and C. Perfetti (Eds.), Higher level language processes in the brain: Inferences and comprehension processes. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. DOC Version

Graesser, A.C. (2007). An introduction to strategic reading comprehension. In D. McNamara (Ed.), Theories of text comprehension: The importance of reading strategies to theoretical foundations of reading comprehension (pp. 3-26). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Graesser, A.C., McNamara, D.S., & Rus, V. (2007). Computational modeling of discourse and conversation. In M. Spivey, M. Joanisse, & K. McRae (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Graesser, A.C., Penumatsa, P., Ventura, M., Cai, Z., & Hu, X. (2007). Using LSA in AutoTutor: Learning through mixed initiative dialogue in natural language. In T. Landauer, D. McNamara, S. Dennis, and W. Kintsch (Eds.), Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis (pp. 243-262). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. DOC Version

Hu, X., Cai, Z., Wiemer-Hasting, P., Graesser, A., & McNamara, D.S. (2007). Strengths, limitations, and extensions of LSA. In T. Landauer, D.S., McNamara, S. Dennis, & W. Kintsch (Eds.), Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

VanderVeen, A., Huff, K., Gierl, M., McNamara, D.S., Louwerse, M., & Graesser, A.C. (2007). Developing and validating instructionally relevant reading competency profiles measured by the critical reading sections of the SAT. In D.S. McNamara (Ed.), Theories of text comprehension: The importance of reading strategies to theoretical foundations of reading comprehension (pp.137-172 ). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Wisher, R.A., & Graesser, A.C. (2007). Question asking in advanced distributed learning environments. In S.M. Fiore and E. Salas (Eds.), Toward a science of distributed learning and training. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Refereed conference publications and abstracts

D’Mello, S. D., Taylor, R., Davidson, K., & Graesser, A. C. (2008).  Self versus teacher judgments of learner emotions during a tutoring session with AutoTutor.  In B.P. Woolf, E. Aimeur, R. Nkambou, & S. Lajoie (Eds), Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 9th International Conference (pp. 9–18).  Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. PDF Version

Gholson, B., Graesser, A. C., & Craig, S. D. (2008). An implementation of vicarious learning with deep-level reasoning questions in middle school and high school classrooms.  Paper in symposium on Enhancing learning using adaptive computerized tutoring in K-12 settings, organized by C. O’Donnell and R. Harwood. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 695–696). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

McCarthy, P. M., Briner, S. W., Myers, J. C., Graesser, A. C., & McNamara, D. S. (2008). Are three words all we need? Recognizing genre at the sub-sentential level. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 613–618). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF Version

McCarthy, P. M., Rus, V., Crossley, S. S., Graesser, A. C., & McNamara, D. S. (2008). Assessing forward-, reverse-, and average-entailer indices on natural language input from the intelligent tutoring system, iSTART.  In D.C. Wilson and H. Chad Lane (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (pp. 165–170).  Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. PDF Version

Rus, V., McCarthy, P. M., Lintean, M. C., McNamara, D. S., & Graesser, A. C. (2008). Paraphrase identification with lexico-syntactic graph subsumption. In D. C. Wilson and H. Chad Lane (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference  (pp. 201–206). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. PDF Version

Graesser, A. C. Chipman, P., King, B., McDaniel, B., & D’Mello, S. (2007). Emotions and Learning with AutoTutor. In R. Luckin, K. Koedinger, & J. Greer (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building technology rich learning contexts that work. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. PDF Version

D’Mello, S. K., Chipman, P., & Graesser, A. C. (2007). Posture as a predictor of learner’s affective engagement. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 905-910). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF Version

D'Mello, S., Taylor, R., Tapp K., King, B., and Graesser, A. C. (2007, April). Posture as a Predictor of Learners Affective Engagement: Boredom and Flow. Presented at the 2007 Annual AERA Meeting. PDF Version

D’Mello, S. K., Taylor, R., & Graesser, A. C. (2007). Monitoring Affective Trajectories during Complex Learning. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 203-208). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF Version

D’Mello, S. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2007). Mind and Body: Dialogue and Posture for Affect Detection in Learning Environments. In R. Luckin, K. Koedinger, & J. Greer (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building technology rich learning contexts that work. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. PDF Version

Franceschetti, D.R., Graesser, A.C., Jackson, G.T., & Chipman, P. (2007, November).  An intelligent tutoring system for conceptual physics.  Invited presentation at 74th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Applied Physics Society, Nashville, TN.   Abstract:  Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 52, 39 200. 

Jackson, G. T., & Graesser, A. C. (2007). Content Matters: An investigation of feedback categories within an ITS. In R. Luckin, K. Koedinger, & J. Greer (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building technology rich learning contexts that work. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. DOC Version

McDaniel, B. T., D’Mello, S. K., King, B. G., Chipman, P., Tapp, K., & Graesser, A. C. (2007). Facial Features for Affective State Detection in Learning Environments. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 467-472). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF Version

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 & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 623-628). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Rus, V., McCarthy, P.M., Lintean, M.C., Graesser, A.C., & McDaniel, D. (2007). Deep natural language processing for evaluating student self-explanations in iSTART. In the Proceedings of the 2007 Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Conference (pp. 422-427). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. PDF Version

Conferences (refereed)

Jeon, M., & Graesser, A. C. (2008, July). An analysis of the coherence of tutorial dialogue with AutoTutor: A comparison of high versus low student knowledge. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. University of Memphis, TN.

Jeon, M., Graesser, A. C., & Cai, Z. (2008, July). A Coh-Metrix analysis: Is “Einstein’s Dreams” more like science or narrative? Paper presented at the 11th International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL). University of Memphis, TN.

McNamara, D. S., Graesser, A. C., Louwerse, M., Cai, Z., McCarthy, P. M., & Jeon, M. (2008, July). Coh-Metrix. Preconference workshop at the XI International Congress of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL). University of Memphis, TN.

Wisher, R. A., & Graesser, A. C. (2007). Question asking in advanced distributed learning environments. In S. M. Fiore and E. Salas (Eds.), Toward a science of distributed learning and training. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. DOC Version

Rus, V., Cai, Z., Graesser, A.C. (2007, February). Experiments on generating questions about facts. Meetings of  the 8th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing.  Mexico City, Mexico. 

Gholson, B., Graesser, A.C., Craig, S., & Witherspoon, A. (2007, April).  The transfer of deep-level reasoning questions and their effects on science learning.  Symposium presentation on What Conditions Support Transfer of Knowledge? New Research in Mathematics and Science Education at the 2007 Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association.  Chicago, IL.  

Rus, V., Cai, Z., & Graesser, A.C. (2007, April). Evaluation in natural language generation: The question generation task.  Presentation at the workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.  Arlington, VA.  

McNamara, D., McCarthy, P., Graesser, A.C., & Louwerse, M. (2007, June).  Coh-Metrix: Automated measures of text difficulty.  Poster presented at the 2007 Research Conference of the Institute of Education Sciences.  Washington, D.C. 

Wagner, R.K., Waters, G., Sabatini, J., & Graesser, A.C. (2007, June).  Assessing reading comprehension.  Symposium presentation at the 2007 Research Conference of the Institute of Education Sciences.  Washington, D.C. 

D’Mello, S. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2007, July). Mind and body: Dialogue and posture for affect detection in learning environments. Presentation at the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Los Angeles, CA.

Graesser, A.C., & D’Mello, S. (2007, July).  Inferring emotions in tutorial dialogue.  Symposium presentation at the 17th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse. Glasgow, Scotland. 

Graesser, A.C., & Gholson, B. (2007, July).  Learning with conversational agents: Tracking, training, and talking about Physics principles and misconceptions.  Symposium presentation at the 17th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse. Glasgow, Scotland. 

McDaniel, B., King, B., Jeon, M., O’Reilly, T., & Graesser A.C.  (2007, July).  SEEKing cohesion in student essays: High vs. low prior knowledge.  Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meetings of the Society for Text and Discourse. Glasgow, Scotland. 

D’Mello, S. K., Chipman, P., & Graesser, A. C. (2007, August). Posture as a predictor of learner’s affective engagement. Poster presentation at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN.

D’Mello, S. K., Taylor, R., & Graesser, A. C. (2007, August). Monitoring Affective Trajectories during Complex Learning. Presentation at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN.

Graesser, A.C., & Gholson, B.  (2007, August). Learning with conversational agents: Tracking, training, and talking about principles and physics misconceptions.  Symposium presentation at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN.

D’Mello, S., King, B., Stolarski, M., Chipman, P., & Graesser, A.C. (2007, October).  The effects of speech recognition errors on learners’ contributions, knowledge, emotions, and interaction experience.  Presentation at the SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, Carnegie Mellon University. Farmington, PA.    

D'Mello, S. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2008, March). Monitoring emotions while students learn with AutoTutor. Paper presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York.

D'Mello, S. K., King, B., Entezari, O., Chipman, P., & Graesser, A. C. (2008, March). Do you understand me? The impact of speech recognition errors on learning gains. Paper presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York.

D'Mello, S., & Graesser, A. (2008, July). Methodologies to monitor the emotional responses of people while they interact with art. Presented at the XI International Congress of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), University of Memphis, TN.

Graesser, A., Sopcak, P., Coachman, E., Viana, V., & Sergeyeva, M. (2008, July). Presentation Festschrift “Directions in empirical literary studies. In honor of Willie van Peer”. Presented at the XI International Congress of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), University of Memphis, TN.

McCarthy, P., Myers, J., Briner, S., Graesser, A. C., & McNamara, D. S. (2008, July). Genre recognition as an indication of reading skill. Presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of Memphis, TN.

Myers, J., McCarthy, P., Briner, S., Graesser, A. C., & McNamara, D. S. (2008, July). Computationally modeling human genre recognition. Presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of Memphis, TN.

Rus, V., McCarthy, P. M., McNamara, D. S., & Graesser, A. C. (2008, July). On sentence-to-sentence relations. Presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of Memphis, TN.

Snyder-Tapp, K., McCarthy, P., & Graesser, A. C. (2008, July). Measuring critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and creativity in open-ended practical problem solving. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of Memphis, TN.

McCarthy, P., Mintz, L., Graesser, A. C., Cai, Z., & McNamara, D. S. (2008, July). Validating new co-reference measures of cohesion in Coh-Metrix. Presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of Memphis, TN.

D'Mello, S., King, B., & Graesser, A. C. (2008, July). The impact of automatic speech recognition errors on the interaction between a human student and an artificial tutor. Presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of Memphis, TN.

Brittingham, J., Williams, J., Craig, S., Martindale, T., Graesser, A. C., & Gholson, B. (2008, July). A comparison of vicarious environments with deep-level reasoning questions and standard pedagogy in middle school classrooms. Presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of Memphis, TN.

Sullins, J., Craig, S., Gholson, B., & Graesser, A. (2008, July). The influence of modality on deep reasoning questions in vicarious learning environments. Presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of Memphis, TN.

Mitchell, H., & Graesser, A. (2008, July). Individual differences and the time course of joke comprehension. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Memphis, TN.

Lintean, M., Rus, V., & Graesser, A. (2008, July). Using dependency relations to decide paraphrasing. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Memphis, TN.

Craig, S. D., Brittingham, J., Williams, J., Martindale, T., Graesser, A., & Gholson, B. (in press/2009). The impact of domain knowledge on the portability of vicarious learning to the classroom. National Association for Research in Science Teaching.

D'Mello, S., Taylor, R. S., Tapp, K., King, B., & Graesser, A. C. (2007, April). Posture as a predictor of learners' affective engagement: Boredom and flow. Paper presentation at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago.