Projects
HURAA, AutoTutor, Speech Act Classification

Sub Groups
Language and Dialog Group, Curriculum Script Group, Speech Act Classification Group

Research Specialty Areas
Studies of Language, Natural Language Processing, Program Architecture

Eric Mathews came to Rhodes College from Little Rock, Arkansas, and began his work with Dr. Natalie Person in the Spring of 1999 through a work study program in Psychology. In the following school year, Dr. Person invited Eric to work with her and the Tutoring Research Group (TRG) at the University of Memphis. While working on the grants held by the TRG, Eric has contributed to many projects, including AutoTutor 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0, HURAA, and most recently Why/AutoTutor. In addition to pursuing a degree at Rhodes, Eric has served the college on the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Task Force, the College's Honor Council, as well as the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium. Eric graduates in May 2002 with a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Chemistry.

Eric's Personal Website: http://jpalmer.net/eric/

Eric's Vita

Publications
Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Bautista, L., Mathews, E. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001). Evaluating Student Learning Gains in Two Versions of AutoTutor. In J. D. Moore, C. L. Redfield, & W. L. Johnson (Eds.) Artificial intelligence in education: AI-ED in the wired and wireless future (pp. 286-293). Amsterdam, IOS Press.
Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Harter, D., Mathews, E. C., & the Tutoring Research Group. (2000). Dialog move generation and conversation management in AutoTutor. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium: Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications (pp.45-51). Falmouth, MA: AAAI Press.

Presentations
Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Bautista, L., Mathews, E. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001, May). Evaluating Student Learning Gains in Two Versions of AutoTutor. Presented at the 10th International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education. San Antonio, TX.
Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Jackson, G. T., Mathews, E. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001, January). Evaluating student learning outcomes for two versions of AutoTutor. Presented at the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text, and Cognition, Jackson Hole, WY.
Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Harter, D., Mathews, E. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000, November). Managing the tutorial interaction in AutoTutor. Presented at AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Falmouth, Massachusetts.