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Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (in press). Pedagogical Agents and Tutors. In J. W. Guthrie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Macmillan.

Graesser, A. C., & Person, N. K. (in press). Discourse, Cognitive Perspective. In J. W. Gutherie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Macmillan.

Graesser, A.C., Person, N., Harter, D., & TRG (in press). Teaching tactics and dialog in AutoTutor. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.

Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., & Hu, X. (in press). Improving comprehension through discourse processing. New Directions in Teaching and Learning.

Louwerse, M., Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., & Person, N. K. (in press). The role of intelligent tutoring systems in education: An overview of AutoTutor. Proceedings of the 2002 Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference. Nashville, TN.

Rajan, S., Craig, S. D., Gholson, B., Person, N. K., & Graesser, A. C. (2001). AutoTutor: Incorporating back-channel feedback and other human-like conversational behaviors into an intelligent tutoring system. International Journal of Speech Technologies, 4, 117-126.

Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Person, N. K. (2001). Teaching with the Help of Talking Heads. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (pp. 460-461). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.

Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Susarla, S., Harter, D., Person, N. K., Louwerse, M., Olde, B., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001). AutoTutor: An Intelligent Tutor and Conversational Tutoring Scaffold. Proceedings for the 10th International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp.47-49). San Antonio, TX.

Jackson, T., Mueller, J., Person, N., & Graesser, A.C. (2001). Assessing the pedagogical effectiveness and conversational appropriateness in three 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. 263-267). Amsterdam: OIS Press.

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., Gholson, B., Craig, S. D., Hu, X., Stewart, C. O., Graesser, A. C. (2001). HURAA: An interactive web-based agent that optimizes information retrieval in a multi-media environment. In Montgomerie, C. & Viteli, J. (Eds.) Proceedings for ED-MEDIA 2001: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications. (pp. 1476-1481). Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Kreuz, R. J., Pomeroy, V., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001). Simulating human tutor dialog moves in AutoTutor. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 12, 23-29.

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.

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

Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., Harter, D., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). Tactics in tutoring in AutoTutor. In the ITS 2000 Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling Human Teaching Tactics and Strategies (pp. 49-57). Montreal, Canada.

Person, N. K., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R. J., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). The Dialog Advancer Network: A conversation manager for AutoTutor. In the ITS 2000 Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling Human Teaching Tactics and Strategies (pp. 86-92). Montreal, Canada.

Person, N. K., Craig, C., Price, P., Hu, X., Gholson, B., Greasser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). Incorporating human-like conversational behaviors into AutoTutor. In the Agents 2000 Proceedings of the Workshop on Achieving Human-like Behavior in the Interactive Animated Agents (pp. 85-92). Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain: ACM Press.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). AutoTutor's Conversational Behaviors. In the Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Human-Comupter Conversation (pp. 130-135). Bellagio, ltaly.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). Designing AutoTutor to be an effective conversational partner. In the Proceedings for the 4th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 246-253). Ann Arbor, MI.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Harter, D., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). The Dialog Advancer Network: A mechanism for improving AutoTutor's conversational skills. In the Proceedings for the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp.20-21). Lyon, France: University of Lyon 2.

Person, N. K., Klettke, B., Link, K., Kreuz, R. J., & the Tutoring Research Group (1999). The integration of affective responses into AutoTutor. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Affect in Interactions (pp. 167-178). Siena, Italy.

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.

Graesser, A. C., Bowers, C., Olde, B., White, K., & Person, N. K. (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., Bowers, C. A., Hacker, D. J., & Person, N. K. (1997). An anatomy of naturalistic tutoring. In K. Hogan & M. Pressley (Eds.), Scaffolding student learning: Instruction approaches and issues (pp. 145-184). Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books.

Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., & Magliano, J. P. (1995). Collaborative dialogue patterns in naturalistic one-to-one tutoring sessions. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 9, 1-28.

Person, N. K., Kreuz, R. J., Zwaan, R., & Graesser, A. C. (1995). Pragmatics and pedagogy: Conversational rules and politeness strategies may inhibit effective tutoring. Cognition and Instruction, 13, 161-188.

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Magliano, J. P., & Kreuz, R. J. (1994). Inferring what the student knows in one-to-one tutoring: The role of student questions and answers. Learning and Individual Differences, 6, 205-229.

Graesser, A. C., & Person, N. K. (1994). Question asking during tutoring. American Educational Research Journal, 31, 104-137.

Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., & Johnston, G. S. (1993). Three obstacles in empirical research on aesthetic and literary comprehension. In R. J. Kreuz & M. S. MacNealy (Eds.), Empirical approaches to literature and aesthetics. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., and Huber, J. D. (1993). Question asking during tutoring and in the design of educational software. In M. Rabinowitz (Ed.), Cognitive science foundations of instructional software (pp. 149-172). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Graesser, A. C., Person, N. K., and Huber, J. D. (1992). Mechanisms that generate questions. In T. Lauer, E. Peacock, & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), Questions and information systems (pp. 167-187). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.