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Nhat Tran, Benjamin Pierce, Diane Litman, Richard Correnti, Lindsay Clare Matsumura (2024). Analyzing Large Language Models for Classroom Discussion Assessment. EDM 2024.

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Tianwen Li, Zhexiong Liu, Lindsay Matsumura, Elaine Wang, Diane Litman, Richard Correnti (2024). Using Large Language Models to Assess Young Students′ Writing Revisions. Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024).

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Nhat Tran, Diane Litman (2024). Enhancing Knowledge Retrieval with Topic Modeling for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).

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Mohamed Elaraby, Huihui Xu, Morgan Gray, Kevin Ashley, Diane Litman (2024). Adding Argumentation into Human Evaluation of Long Document Abstractive Summarization: A Case Study on Legal Opinions. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval) @ LREC-COLING 2024.

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Yang Zhong, Mohamed Elaraby, Diane Litman, Ahmed Ashraf Butt, Muhsin Menekse (2024). REFLECTSUMM: A Benchmark for Course Reflection Summarization. the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).

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Yuya Asano, Diane Litman, Quentin King-Shepard, Tristan Maidment, Tyree Langley, Teresa Davison, Timothy Nokes-Malach, Adriana Kovashka, Erin Walker (2024). What metrics of participation balance predict outcomes of collaborative learning with a robot?. Proceedings Educational Data Mining, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Zhexiong Liu, Mohamed Elaraby, Yang Zhong, Diane Litman (2023). Overview of ImageArg-2023: The First Shared Task in Multimodal Argument Mining. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Argument Mining (at EMNLP).

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Zhexiong Liu, Diane Litman, Elaine Lin Wang, Lindsay C. Matsumura, Richard Correnti (2023). Predicting the Quality of Revisions in Argumentative Writing. Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (at ACL).

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Yuya Asano, Diane Litman, Mingzhi Yu, Nikki Lobczowski, Timothy Nokes-Malach, Adriana Kovashka, Erin Walker (2023). Impact of Experiencing Misrecognition by Teachable Agents on Learning and Rapport. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).

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Nhat Tran, Benjamin Pierce, Diane Litman, Richard Correnti, Lindsay Clare Matsumura (2023). Utilizing Natural Language Processing for Automated Assessment of Classroom Discussion. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

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Mohamed Elaraby, Yang Zhong, Diane Litman (2023). Towards Argument-Aware Abstractive Summarization of Long Legal Opinions with Summary Reranking. Findings of the 61st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Yang Zhong, Diane Litman (2023). STRONG -- Structure Controllable Legal Opinion Summary Generation. Findings of IJCNLP-AACL 2023**.

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Zhexiong Liu, Meiqi Guo, Yue Dai, Diane Litman (2022). ImageArg: A Multi-modal Tweet Dataset for Image Persuasiveness Mining. Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Argument Mining (at COLING).

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Mohamed Elaraby, Diane Litman (2022). ArgLegalSumm: Improving Abstractive Summarization of Legal Documents with Argument Mining. Proceedings 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.

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Nhat Tran, Diane Litman (2022). Getting Better Dialogue Context for Knowledge Identification by Leveraging Document-level Topic Shift. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL).

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Yuya Asano, Diane Litman, Mingzhi Yu, Nikki Lobczowski, Timothy Nokes-Malach, Adriana Kovashka, Erin Walker (2022). Comparison of Lexical Alignment with a Teachable Robot in Human-Robot and Human-Human-Robot Interactions. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL).

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Ahmed Magooda, Diane Litman, Ahmed Ashraf Butt, Muhsin Menekse (2022). Improving the Quality of Students' Written Reflections using Natural Language Processing: Model Design and Classroom Evaluation. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

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Nhat Tran, Malihe Alikhani, Diane Litman (2022). How to Ask for Donations? Learning User-Specific Persuasive Dialogue Policies through Online Interactions. Proceedings 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP).

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Tristan Maidment, Mingzhi Yu, Nikki Lobczowski, Adriana Kovashka, Erin Walker, Diane Litman, Timothy Nokes-Malach (2022). Building a Reinforcement Learning Environment from Limited Data to Optimize Teachable Robot Interventions. Proceedings 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM).

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Diane Litman, Tazin Afrin, Omid Kashefi, Christopher Olshefski, Amanda Godley, Rebecca Hwa (2022). An Automated Writing Evaluation System for Supporting Self-Monitored Revising. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

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Richard Correnti, Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Elaine Wang, Diane Litman, Haoran Zhang (2022). Building a Validity Argument for an Automated Writing Evaluation System (eRevise) as a Formative Assessment. Computers and Education Open.

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Omid Kashefi, Tazin Afrin, Meghan Dale, Christopher Olshefski, Amanda Godley, Diane Litman, Rebecca Hwa (2022). ArgRewrite V.2: an Annotated Argumentative Revisions Corpus. Language Resources and Evaluation.

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Haoran Zhang, Diane Litman (2021). Essay Quality Signals as Weak Supervision for Source-based Essay Scoring. 16th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA).

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Mohamed Elaraby, Diane Litman (2021). Self-trained Pretrained Language Models for Evidence Detection. Proceedings 8th Workshop on Argument Mining (at EMNLP).

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Nhat Tran, Diane Litman (2021). Multi-task Learning in Argument Mining for Persuasive Online Discussions. Proceedings 8th Workshop on Argument Mining (at EMNLP).

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Ahmed Magooda, Diane Litman (2021). Mitigating Data Scarceness through Data Synthesis, Augmentation and Curriculum for Abstractive Summarization. Findings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Mingzhu Yu, Diane Litman (2021). Leveraging Linguistic Coordination in Reranking N-Best Candidates For End-to-End Response Selection Using BERT. The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings, 34.

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Ahmed Magooda, Diane Litman, Mohamed Elaraby (2021). Exploring Multitask Learning for Low-Resource Abstractive Summarization. Findings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Sonia Cromp, Diane Litman (2021). Essay Revision and Corresponding Grade Change as Captured by Text Similarity and Revision Purposes. Proceedings Workshop for Undergraduates in Educational Data Mining and Learning Engineering.

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Tazin Afrin, Omid Kashefi, Christopher Olshefski, Diane Litman, Rebecca Hwa, Amanda Godley (2021). Effective Interfaces for Student-Driven Revision Sessions for Argumentative Writing. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21).

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Tristan Maidment, Mingzhi Yu, Erin Walker, Adriana Kovashka, Diane Litman, Timothy Nokes-Malach (2021). Capturing Student-Robot Interactions for a Data-Driven Educational Dialogue RL Environment. Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Education (at EDM).

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Muheng Yan, Yu-Ru Lin, Diane Litman (2021). Argumentatively Phony? Detecting Misinformation via Argument Mining. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence-enabled Cybersecurity Analytics (at ACM KDD).

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Diane Litman, Haoran Zhang, Richard Correnti, Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Elaine Wang (2021). A Fairness Evaluation of Automated Methods for Scoring Text Evidence Usage in Writing. Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).

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Christopher Olshefski, Luca Lugini, Ravneet Singh, Diane Litman, Amanda Godley (2020). The Discussion Tracker Corpus of Collaborative Argumentation. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.

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Zahra Rahimi, Diane Litman (2020). Entrainment2Vec: Embedding Entrainment for Multi-party Dialogues. Proceedings Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20).

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Diane Litman (2020). Discourse for Argument Mining, and Argument Mining as Discourse. 1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP.

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Luca Lugini, Diane Litman (2020). Contextual Argument Component Classification for Class Discussions. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).

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Richard Correnti, Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Elaine Wang, Diane Litman, Zahra Rahimi, Zahid Kisa (2020). Automated Scoring of Students' Use of Text Evidence in Writing. Reading Research Quarterly.

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Ahmed Magooda, Cezary Marcjan (2020). Attend to the beginning: A study on using bidirectional attention for extractive summarization. Proceedings 33rd International FLAIRS Conference.

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Tazin Afrin, Elaine Wang, Diane Litman, Lindsay Clare Matsumara, Richard Correnti (2020). Annotation and Classification of Evidence and Reasoning Revisions in Argumentative Writing. Proceedings of 15th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications.

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Ahmed Magooda, Diane Litman (2020). Abstractive Summarization for Low Resource Data using Domain Transfer and Data Synthesis. Proceedings 33rd International FLAIRS Conference.

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Mingzhi Yu, Diane Litman, Susannah Paletz (2019). Investigating the Relationship between Multi-Party Linguistic Entrainment, Team Characteristics and Perception of Team Social Outcomes. Proceedings 32nd International FLAIRS Conference.

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Mingzhi Yu, Emer Gilmartin, Diane Litman (2019). Identifying Personality Traits Using Overlap Dynamics in Multiparty Dialogue. Proceedings Interspeech.

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Tazin Afrin, Diane Litman (2019). Identifying Editor Roles in Argumentative Writing from Student Revision Histories. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).

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Haoran Zhang, Ahmed Magooda, Diane Litman, Richard Correnti, Elaine Wang, Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Emily Howe, Rafael Quintana (2019). eRevise: Using Natural Language Processing to Provide Formative Feedback on Text Evidence Usage in Student Writing. Proceedings Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-19).

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Emer Gilmartin, Mingzhu Yu, Diane Litman (2019). Comparing Speech, Silence, and Overlap Dynamics in a Task-based Game and Casual Conversation. Proceedings International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

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Richard Correnti, Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Elaine Wang, Diane Litman, Zahra Rahimi, Zahid Kisa (2019). Automated Scoring of Students' Use of Text Evidence in Writing. Reading Research Quarterly.

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Zahra Rahimi, Diane Litman (2018). Weighting Model Based on Group Dynamics to Measure Convergence in Multi-party Dialogue. Proceedings 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL).

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Diane Litman, Helmer Strik, Gad S. Lim (2018). Speech Technologies and the Assessment of Second Language Speaking: Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities. Language Assessment Quarterly.

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Haoran Zhang, Diane Litman (2018). Co-Attention Based Neural Network for Source-Dependent Essay Scoring. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications.

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Huy V. Nguyen, Diane J. Litman (2018). Argument Mining for Improving the Automated Scoring of Persuasive Essays. Proceeding of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

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Luca Lugini, Diane Litman (2018). Argument Component Classification for Classroom Discussions. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Argument Mining.

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Tazin Afrin, Diane Litman (2018). Annotation and Classification of Sentence-level Revision Improvement. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications.

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Luca Lugini, Diane Litman, Amanda Godley, Christopher Olshefski (2018). Annotating Student Talk in Text-based Classroom Discussions. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications.

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Wencan Luo, Fei Liu, Zitao Liu, Diane Litman (2018). A Novel ILP Framework for Summarizing Content with High Lexical Variety. Natural Language Engineering.

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Haoran Zhang, Diane Litman (2017). Word Embedding for Response-To-Text Assessment of Evidence. Proceedings Student Research Workshop of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

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L. Ouyang, M. Woodworth, S. B. F. Paletz, D. Litman (2017). Will different degrees help you succeed? The role of educational diversity on team performance. American Psychological Association Conference.

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Ahmed Magooda, Mohamed Zahran, Mohsen Rashwan, Hazem Raafat, Magda Fayek (2017). Vector based techniques for short answer grading. Proceedings 29th International FLAIRS Conference.

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Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Carrie Demmans Epp, Min-Yen Kan, Diane J. Litman (2017). Using Discourse Signals for Robust Instructor Intervention Prediction. Proceedings 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

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Ahmed Magooda, Diane Litman (2017). Syntactic and Semantic Features for Human Like Judgement in Spoken CALL. Proceedings Seventh ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE).

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Xiangmin Fan, Wencan Luo, Muhsin Menekse, Jingtao Wang, Diane Litman (2017). Scaling Reflection Prompts in Large Classrooms via Mobile Interfaces and Natural Language Processing. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI).

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Luca Lugini, Diane Litman (2017). Predicting Specificity in Classroom Discussion. Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications.

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Huy Nguyen, Wenting Xiong, Diane Litman (2017). Iterative Design and Classroom Evaluation of Automated Formative Feedback for Improving Peer Feedback Localization. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.

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M. Menekse, W. Luo, X. Fan, J. Wang, Diane Litman (2017). Exploring the Reflection and Feedback Cycle to Enhance Engineering Students' Learning. National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST) meeting.

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Jiakun Fang, David Grunberg, Diane Litman, Ye Wang (2017). Discourse Analysis of Lyric and Lyric-based Classification of Music. Proceedingsn 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR).

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Jesse Thomason, Diane Litman (2017). Differences in User Responses to a Wizard-of-Oz versus Automated System. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT).

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Zahra Rahimi, Diane Litman, Richard Correnti, Elaine Wang, Lindsay Clare Matsumara (2017). Assessing Student's Use of Evidence and Organization in Response-to-Text Writing: Using Natural Language Processing for Rubric-Based Automated Scoring. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.

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Zahra Rahimi, Diane Litman, Susannah Paletz (2017). Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment in Multi-Party Spoken Dialogues: Does Simple Averaging Extend Existing Pair Measures Properly?. Proceedings International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS).

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S. B. F. Paletz, Z. Rahimi, D. Litman (2017). A test of team acoustic-prosodic entrainment measures and social factors. Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) Conference.

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Fan Zhang, Diane Litman (2017). A Joint Identification Approach for Argumentative Writing Revisions.

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Fan Zhang, Rebecca Hwa, Diane Litman, Homa B. Hashemi (2017). A Corpus of Annotated Revisions for Studying Argumentative Writing. Proceedings Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

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Fan Zhang, Diane Litman (2016). Using Context to Predict the Purpose of Argumentative Writing Revisions. Proceedings Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies.

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Diane Litman, Steve Young, Mark Gales, Kate Knill, Karen Ottewell, Rogier van Dalen, David Vandyke (2016). Towards Using Conversations with Spoken Dialogue Systems in the Automated Assessment of Non-Native Speakers of English. Proceedings 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue.

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Diane Litman (2016). Natural Language Processing for Enhancing Teaching and Learning. Proceedings 30th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

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Fan Zhang, Diane Litman, Katherine Forbes-Riley (2016). Inferring Discourse Relations from PDTB-style Discourse Labels for Argumentative Revision Classification. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).

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Huy V. Nguyen, Diane J. Litman (2016). Improving argument mining in student essays by learning and exploiting argument indicators versus essay topics. Proceedings 29th International FLAIRS Conference.

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Kate Forbes-Riley, Fan Zhang, Diane Litman (2016). Extracting PDTB Discourse Relations from Student Essays. Proceedings 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue.

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Wencan Lugini, Diane Litman (2016). Determining the Quality of a Student Reflective Response. Proceedings 29th International FLAIRS Conference.

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Huy V. Nguyen, Diane J. Litman (2016). Context-aware Argumentative Relation Mining. Proceedings 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Zahra Rahimi, Diane Litman (2016). Automatically Extracting Topical Components for a Response-to-Text Writing Assessment. Proceedings 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications.

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Wencan Luo, Fei Liu, Zitao Liu, Diane Litman (2016). Automatic Summarization of Student Course Feedback. Proceedings Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies.

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Wencan Lugini, Fei Liu, Diane Litman (2016). An Improved Phrase-based Approach to Annotating and Summarizing Student Course Responses. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).

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Wencan Luo, Diane Litman (2015). Summarizing Student Responses to Reflection Prompts. Proceedings Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Zahra Rahimi, Diane Litman, Elaine Wang, Richard Correnti (2015). Incorporating Coherence of Topics as a Criterion in Automatic Response-to-Text Assessment of the Organization of Writing. Proceedings 10th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (NAACL Workshop).

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Huy V. Nguyen, Diane J. Litman (2015). Extracting argument and domain words for identifying argument components in texts. Proceedings 2nd Workshop on Argument Mining (NAACL Workshop).

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Fan Zhang, Diane Litman (2015). Annotation and Classification of Argumentative Writing Revisions. Proceedings 10th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (NAACL Workshop).

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Wencan Luo, Xiangmin Fan, Muhsin Menekse, Jingtao Wang, Diane Litman (2015). Enhancing Instructor-Student and Student-Student Interactions with Mobile Interfaces and Summarization. Proceedings NAACL HLT Companion Volume.

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Xiangmin Fan, Wencan Luo, Muhsin Menekse, Jingtao Wang, Diane Litman (2015). CourseMIRROR: Enhancing Large Classroom Instructor-Student Interactions via Mobile Interfaces and Natural Language Processing. Proceedings ACM CHI (Works-in-Progress).

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Wenting Xiong, Diane Litman (2014). Empirical analysis of exploiting review helpfulness for extractive summarization of online reviews. Proceedings COLING: 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.

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Fan Zhang, Diane Litman (2014). Sentence-level Rewriting Detection. Proceedings 9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (ACL Workshop).

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Nathan Ong, Diane Litman, Alexandra Brusilovsky (2014). Ontology-Based Argument Mining and Automatic Essay Scoring. Proceedings First Workshop on Argumentation Mining (ACL Workshop).

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Michael Lipschultz, Diane Litman (2014). Modeling Student Benefit from Illustrations and Graphs. Proceedings 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).

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Huy V. Nguyen, Diane J. Litman (2014). Improving Peer Feedback Prediction: The Sentence Level is Right. Proceedings 9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (ACL Workshop).

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Mohammad H. Falakmasir, Kevin D. Ashley, Christian D. Schunn, Diane J. Litman (2014). Identifying Thesis and Conclusion Statements in Student Essays to Scaffold Peer Review. Proceedings 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).

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Diane Litman, Katherine Forbes-Riley (2014). Evaluating a Spoken Dialogue System that Detects and Adapts to User Affective States. Proceedings 15th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL).

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Huy Nguyen, Wenting Xiong, Diane Litman (2014). Classroom Evaluation of a Scaffolding Intervention for Improving Peer Review Localization. Proceedings 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).

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Zahra Rahimi, Diane Litman, Richard Correnti, Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Elaine Wang, Zahid Kisa (2014). Automatic Scoring of an Analytical Response-To-Text Assessment. Proceedings 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).

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Luca Lugini, Emanuela Marasco, Bojan Cukic, Jeremy Dawson (2014). Removing Gender Signature from Fingerprints. International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO).

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Michael Lipschultz, Diane Litman, Sandra Katz, Patricia Albacete, Pamela Jordan (2014). Predicting Semantic Changes in Abstraction in Tutor Responses to Students. International Journal of Learning Technology.

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