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Simulating Tutors with Natural Dialog and Pedagogical Effectiveness

Person, N. K., Kreuz, R. J., Graesser, A. C., Rajan, S., Klettke, B., Pomeroy, V., Link, K., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001, April). An analysis of student learning gains after interacting with AutoTutor. Presented at the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA.

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., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000, July). Controlling Autotutor's conversational behaviors. Presented at the Third Workshop on Human-Comupter Conversation, Bellagio, ltaly.

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.

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.

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). 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.