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

4/20 Project Presentations Mike, Wenting Mike, Wenting
4/22 Project Presentations Tonya, Benjamin Tonya, Ben
4/22: Final Project Report DUE