| Class | Topic | Reading | Lead | |
| PART 1: INTRODUCTION | ||||
| 1/5 | Overview & Admin | Introduction, Burstein and Leacock (NLE 12: Special Issue) | Diane | |
| 1/7 | Speech & NLP AIED |
Chapter 1, Jurafsky and Martin (slides)
Chapter 1, Woolf (handed out in class) |
Diane | |
| 1/12: Preferences for Presentation Topics DUE | ||||
| 1/12 | Content Assessment: Background and Resources | The
User-Language Paraphrase Challenge, Philip M. McCarthy & Danielle
S. McNamara (FLAIRS Shared Task)
Annotating Students' Understanding of Science Concepts. Rodney D. Nielsen, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin and Martha Palmer, Proceedings International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2008. (Annotated Learner Answer Corpus) Uncertainty Corpus: Resource to Study User Affect in Complex Spoken Dialogue Systems. Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Scott Silliman, and Amruta Purandare. Proceedings International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2008. (Uncertainty Corpus) |
Diane | |
| 1/14 | Introduction to Language Learning | Speech and Language Technology in Education: The Perspective from SLA Research and Practice, Nick C. Ellis & Pamela S. H. Bogart (SLATE Keynote) Web-based Dialogue and Translation Games for Spoken Language Learning, Stephanie Seneff (SLATE Keynote) Doing more than Teaching Students: Opportunities for CALL in the Learning Sciences, Ruth Wylie, Teruko Mitamura, Ken Koedinger, and Jim Ranking (SLATE talk) |
Diane | |
| 1/19 | No class: MLK | |||
| PART 2: Automated Scoring/Evaluation | ||||
| 1/21 | Content Analysis | Higgins et al | Joanna | |
| 1/26 | Content Analysis | Sukkarieh and Pulman Makatchev et al |
Benjamin | |
| 1/28 | Grammatical Errors | Tetreault and Chodorow Gamon et al |
Tonya | |
| 2/2 | Discourse Analysis | Hempelmann et al McCarthy et al |
Mike | |
| 2/4 | Discourse Analysis | Higgins et al Miltsakaki and Kukich |
Joanna | |
| 2/9 | Spoken Language | Zechner and Bejar Beck and Sison |
Hua | |
| PART 3: Classroom Tools | ||||
| 2/11 | Readability | Miltsakaki and Troutt Pitler and Nenkova |
Art | |
| 2/16 | Test Questions | Brown et al Mitkov et al |
Benjamin | |
| 2/18 | Lecture Processing | Glass et al Malioutov and Barzilay |
Wenting | |
| PART 4: Affect, Social Agents, and Motivation | ||||
| 2/23 | Agents & Games/Social Language | Wang and Johnson Johnson Hjalmarsson et al. |
Mike | |
| 2/25: Project Proposal DUE | ||||
| 2/25 | Social Language | Gupta et al Moore et al |
Joanna | |
| 3/2 | Learner Affect | D'Mello et al Graesser et al |
Wenting | |
| 3/4 | Diane at a funders meeting | CLASS CANCELLED | NA | |
| SPRING RECESS | ||||
| 3/16 | Learner Affect | Pon-Barry et al Boyer et al |
Benjamin | |
| PART 5: Collaborative Learning / Multi-Party Conversation | ||||
| 3/18 | Collaborative Learning | Kumar et al / Guest Lecture | Rohit Kumar | |
| 3/23 | Collaborative Learning | Rose et al | Tonya | |
| 3/25: Project Status Report DUE | ||||
| 3/25 | Observer Learning | Chi et al / Guest Lecture | Bob Hausmann | |
| 3/30 | Observer Learning | Piwek et al Hernault et al |
Wenting | |
| PART 6: Intelligent Tutoring Systems | ||||
| 4/1 | Tutorial Dialogue | VanLehn et al | Mike | |
| 4/6 | Generation | DiEugenio et al | Min | |
| 4/8 | Data Mining | Mostow and Beck | Tonya | |
| 4/13 | Speech | 2 Boulder proposals, 1 similarity document, annual report | Diane | |
| 4/15: Draft Project Report DUE | ||||
| PART 7: PROJECTS | ||||
| 4/15 | Project Presentations |
'Zoning Out' Project Report Brief Research Summaries (by auditors) |
Joanna Art, Hua, Min |
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| 4/20 | Project Presentations | Mike, Wenting | Mike, Wenting | |
| 4/22 | Project Presentations | Tonya, Benjamin | Tonya, Ben | |
| 4/22: Final Project Report DUE | ||||