Vasile Rus

According to our database, Vasile Rus authored at least 169 papers between 1999 and 2024.

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2024

Explaining Code Examples in Introductory Programming Courses: LLM vs Humans.

Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan, Priti Oli, Jeevan Chapagain, Mohammad Hassany, Rabin Banjade, Peter Brusilovsky, Vasile Rus

CoRR, 2024

Mastery Guided Non-parametric Clustering to Scale-up Strategy Prediction.

Anup Shakya, Vasile Rus, Deepak Venugopal

CoRR, 2024

Automated Assessment of Students' Code Comprehension using LLMs.

Priti Oli, Rabin Banjade, Jeevan Chapagain, Vasile Rus

CoRR, 2024

2023

The Behavior of Large Language Models When Prompted to Generate Code Explanations.

Priti Oli, Rabin Banjade, Jeevan Chapagain, Vasile Rus

CoRR, 2023

Automated Extraction of Domain Models from Textbook Indexes for Developing Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Rabin Banjade, Priti Oli, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Augmented Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2023

SelfCode: An Annotated Corpus and a Model for Automated Assessment of Self-Explanation During Source Code Comprehension.

Jeevan Chapagain, Zak Risha, Rabin Banjade, Priti Oli, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Peter Brusilovsky, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2023

Scalable and Equitable Math Problem Solving Strategy Prediction in Big Educational Data.

Anup Shakya, Vasile Rus, Deepak Venugopal

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2023

Improving Code Comprehension Through Scaffolded Self-explanations.

Priti Oli, Rabin Banjade, Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan, Jeevan Chapagain, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Peter Brusilovsky, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium and Blue Sky, 2023

2022

DeepCode: An Annotated Set of Instructional Code Examples to Foster Deep Code Comprehension and Learning.

Vasile Rus, Peter Brusilovsky, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Kamil Akhuseyinoglu, Scott Fleming

Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 18th International Conference, 2022

Automated Assessment of Student Self-explanation During Source Code Comprehension.

Jeevan Chapagain, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Rabin Banjade, Priti Oli, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2022

The Third Workshop of the Learner Data Institute: Big Data, Research Challenges, \& Science Convergence in Educational Data Science.

Vasile Rus, Stephen Fancsali

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2022

Preliminary Experiments with Transformer based Approaches To Automatically Inferring Domain Models from Textbooks.

Rabin Banjade, Priti Oli, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2022

Automatic Question Generation for Scaffolding Self-explanations for Code Comprehension.

Lasang Jimba Tamang, Rabin Banjade, Jeevan Chapagain, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 23rd International Conference, 2022

2021

A Comparative Study of Free Self-Explanations and Socratic Tutoring Explanations for Source Code Comprehension.

Lasang Jimba Tamang, Zeyad Alshaikh, Nisrine Ait Khayi, Priti Oli, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021

Automated Assessment of Quality of Jupyter Notebooks Using Artificial Intelligence and Big Code.

Priti Oli, Rajendra Banjade, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2021

Towards Improving Open Student Answer Assessment using Pretrained Transformers.

Nisrine Ait Khayi, Vasile Rus, Lasang Jimba Tamang

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2021

Domain Model Discovery from Textbooks for Computer Programming Intelligent Tutors.

Rabin Banjade, Priti Oli, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Jeevan Chapagain, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2021

Neuro-Symbolic Models: A Scalable, Explainable Framework for Strategy Discovery from Big Edu-Data.

Deepak Venugopal, Vasile Rus, Anup Shakya

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the Workshops at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining 2021 co-located with 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2021), 2021

Student Strategy Prediction using a Neuro-Symbolic Approach.

Anup Shakya, Vasile Rus, Deepak Venugopal

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2021

The Learner Data Institute - Conceptualization: A Progress Report.

Vasile Rus, Stephen E. Fancsali, Philip I. Pavlik Jr., Deepak Venugopal, Arthur C. Graesser, Steven Ritter, Dale Bowman, The L. D. I. Team

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the Workshops at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining 2021 co-located with 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2021), 2021

Prompting for Free Self-Explanations Promotes Better Code Comprehension (Work In Progress).

Vasile Rus, Kamil Akhuseyinoglu, Jeevan Chapagain, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Peter Brusilovsky

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the Workshops at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining 2021 co-located with 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2021), 2021

Experiments with Auto-generated Socratic Dialogue for Source Code Understanding.

Zeyad Alshaikh, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2021

2020

Graph Convolutional Networks for Student Answers Assessment.

Nisrine Ait Khayi, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Text, Speech, and Dialogue, 2020

The Effects of Open Self-Explanation Prompting During Source Code Comprehension.

Lasang Jimba Tamang, Zeyad Alshaikh, Nisrine Ait Khayi, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2020

Attention Based Transformer for Student Answers Assessment.

Nisrine Ait Khayi, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2020

Experiments with a Socratic Intelligent Tutoring System for Source Code Understanding.

Zeyad Alshaikh, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2020

Using Neural Tensor Networks for Open Ended Short Answer Assessment.

Dipesh Gautam, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 21st International Conference, 2020

A Socratic Tutor for Source Code Comprehension.

Zeyad Alshaikh, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 21st International Conference, 2020

2019

Understanding when students are active-in-thinking through modeling-in-context.

Zachari Swiecki, Andrew R. Ruis, Dipesh Gautam, Vasile Rus, David Williamson Shaffer

Br. J. Educ. Technol., 2019

Report on the Thirty-Second International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-32).

Roman Barták, Eric Bell, Keith Brawner, Vasile Rus

AI Mag., 2019

Standardizing Unstructured Interaction Data in Adaptive Instructional Systems.

Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Xiangen Hu, Jody L. Cockroft

Proceedings of the Adaptive Instructional Systems, 2019

Towards Concept Map Based Free Student Answer Assessment.

Nabin Maharjan, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2019

A Conversational Intelligent Agent for Career Guidance and Counseling.

Andrew J. Hampton, Vasile Rus, Frank Andrasik, Benjamin Nye, Art Graesser

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2019

Effect of Domain Corpus Size and LSA Vector Dimension: A Study in Assessing Student Generated Short Texts in Virtual Internships Without Participant Data.

Dipesh Gautam, Zhiqiang Cai, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2019

Clustering Students Based on Their Prior Knowledge.

Nisrine Ait Khayi, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2019

Assessing Student Response in Tutorial Dialogue Context using Probabilistic Soft Logic.

Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2019

A Concept Map Based Assessment of Free Student Answers in Tutorial Dialogues.

Nabin Maharjan, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 20th International Conference, 2019

2018

Automatic Chinese character similarity measurement.

Ming Liu, Vasile Rus, Yue Li, Chuqian Sheng, Li Liu

Web Intell., 2018

Automatic Chinese Multiple Choice Question Generation Using Mixed Similarity Strategy.

Ming Liu, Vasile Rus, Li Liu

IEEE Trans. Learn. Technol., 2018

Report on the Thirty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-31).

Keith Brawner, Vasile Rus, Roman Barták, Zdravko Markov

AI Mag., 2018

Discovering Effective Tutorial Strategies in Human Tutorial Sessions.

Nabin Maharjan, Vasile Rus, Dipesh Gautam

Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2018

Long Short Term Memory Based Models for Negation Handling in Tutorial Dialogues.

Dipesh Gautam, Nabin Maharjan, Rajendra Banjade, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2018

Automated Speech Act Categorization of Chat Utterances in Virtual Internships.

Dipesh Gautam, Nabin Maharjan, Art Graesser, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2018

Assessing Free Student Answers in Tutorial Dialogues Using LSTM Models.

Nabin Maharjan, Dipesh Gautam, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 19th International Conference, 2018

A Tutorial Markov Analysis of Effective Human Tutorial Sessions.

Nabin Maharjan, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications, 2018

2017

Automatic Chinese Factual Question Generation.

Ming Liu, Vasile Rus, Li Liu

IEEE Trans. Learn. Technol., 2017

Encoding and Ranking Similar Chinese Characters.

Ming Liu, Vasile Rus, Qiang Liao, Li Liu

J. Inf. Sci. Eng., 2017

Conference Report: AI as a 30+ Year Florida Statewide Strategic Initiative.

Pierre M. Larochelle, Marius Silaghi, Vasile Rus

IEEE Intell. Informatics Bull., 2017

Report on the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-30).

Vasile Rus, Zdravko Markov, Ingrid Russell

AI Mag., 2017

DT_Team at SemEval-2017 Task 1: Semantic Similarity Using Alignments, Sentence-Level Embeddings and Gaussian Mixture Model Output.

Nabin Maharjan, Rajendra Banjade, Dipesh Gautam, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2017

Educational system based on simulation and intelligent conversation.

Nesreen Mejbri, Fathi Essalmi, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility, 2017

An Analysis of Human Tutors' Actions in Tutorial Dialogues.

Vasile Rus, Nabin Maharjan, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Michael Yudelson, Susan R. Berman, Stephen E. Fancsali, Steven Ritter

Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2017

Markov Analysis of Students' Professional Skills in Virtual Internships.

Vasile Rus, Dipesh Gautam, Dale Bowman, Arthur C. Graesser, David W. Shaffer

Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2017

Automated Assessment of Open-ended Student Answers in Tutorial Dialogues Using Gaussian Mixture Models.

Nabin Maharjan, Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2017

Modeling Classifiers for Virtual Internships Without Participant Data.

Dipesh Gautam, Zachari Swiecki, David W. Shaffer, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2017

Pooling Word Vector Representations Across Models.

Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Dipesh Gautam, Frank Andrasik, Arthur C. Graesser, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2017

2016

Non-intrusive assessment of learners' prior knowledge in dialogue-based intelligent tutoring systems.

Vasile Rus, Dan Stefanescu

Smart Learn. Environ., 2016

DTSim at SemEval-2016 Task 2: Interpreting Similarity of Texts Based on Automated Chunking, Chunk Alignment and Semantic Relation Prediction.

Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Nobal Bikram Niraula, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2016

DTSim at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Semantic Similarity Model Including Multi-Level Alignment and Vector-Based Compositional Semantics.

Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Dipesh Gautam, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2016

SemAligner: A Method and Tool for Aligning Chunks with Semantic Relation Types and Semantic Similarity Scores.

Nabin Maharjan, Rajendra Banjade, Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

DT-Neg: Tutorial Dialogues Annotated for Negation Scope and Focus in Context.

Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

Towards Detecting Intra- and Inter-Sentential Negation Scope and Focus in Dialogue.

Rajendra Banjade, Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2016

Handling Missing Words by Mapping Across Word Vector Representations.

Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Dipesh Gautam, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2016

Assessing Student-Generated Design Justifications in Virtual Engineering Internships.

Vasile Rus, Dipesh Gautam, Zach Swiecki, David W. Shaffer, Art Graesser

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2016

Preliminary Results On Dialogue Act and Subact Classification in Chat-based Online Tutorial Dialogues.

Vasile Rus, Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Donald M. Morrison, Steven Ritter, Michael Yudelson

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2016

Toward Integrating Cognitive Tutor Interaction Data with Human Tutoring Text Dialogue Data in LearnSphere.

Stephen E. Fancsali, Steven Ritter, Susan R. Berman, Michael Yudelson, Vasile Rus, Donald M. Morrison

Proceedings of the Workshop and Tutorial Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2016

Joint Inference for Mode Identification in Tutorial Dialogues.

Deepak Venugopal, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the COLING 2016, 2016

Evaluation Dataset (DT-Grade) and Word Weighting Approach towards Constructed Short Answers Assessment in Tutorial Dialogue Context.

Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Nobal Bikram Niraula, Dipesh Gautam, Borhan Samei, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2016

2015

NeRoSim: A System for Measuring and Interpreting Semantic Textual Similarity.

Rajendra Banjade, Nobal Bikram Niraula, Nabin Maharjan, Vasile Rus, Dan Stefanescu, Mihai C. Lintean, Dipesh Gautam

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2015

An Optimal Quadratic Approach to Monolingual Paraphrase Alignment.

Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, 2015

Automated Labelling of Dialogue Modes In Tutorial Dialogues.

Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Nabin Maharjan, Rajendra Banjade

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2015

Combining Word Representations for Measuring Word Relatedness and Similarity.

Nobal B. Niraula, Dipesh Gautam, Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2015

Using an Implicit Method for Coreference Resolution and Ellipsis Handling in Automatic Student Answer Assessment.

Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2015

Hierarchical Dialogue Act Classification in Online Tutoring Sessions.

Borhan Samei, Vasile Rus, Benjamin Nye, Donald M. Morrison

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2015

Lemon and Tea Are Not Similar: Measuring Word-to-Word Similarity by Combining Different Methods.

Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus, Dipesh Gautam

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2015

Judging the Quality of Automatically Generated Gap-fill Question using Active Learning.

Nobal Bikram Niraula, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2015

Integrating Learning Progressions in Unsupervised After-School Online Intelligent Tutoring.

Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Nobal B. Niraula, Rajendra Banjade

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 17th International Conference, 2015

Tutorial Dialogue Modes in a Large Corpus of Online Tutoring Transcripts.

Donald M. Morrison, Benjamin Nye, Vasile Rus, Sarah Snyder, Jennifer Boller, Kenneth B. Miller

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 17th International Conference, 2015

DeepTutor: An Effective, Online Intelligent Tutoring System That Promotes Deep Learning.

Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Rajendra Banjade

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015

2014

Automatic Generation and Ranking of Questions for Critical Review.

Ming Liu, Rafael A. Calvo, Vasile Rus

J. Educ. Technol. Soc., 2014

Forms2Dialog: Automatic dialog generation for Web tasks.

Nobal B. Niraula, Amanda Stent, Hyuckchul Jung, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, I. Dan Melamed, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Latent Semantic Analysis Models on Wikipedia and TASA.

Dan Stefanescu, Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

On Paraphrase Identification Corpora.

Vasile Rus, Rajendra Banjade, Mihai C. Lintean

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

The DARE Corpus: A Resource for Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus, Rajendra Banjade, Dan Stefanescu, William Baggett, Brent Morgan

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

DeepTutor: towards macro- and micro-adaptive conversational intelligent tutoring at scale.

Vasile Rus, Dan Stefanescu, Nobal B. Niraula, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the First (2014) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2014

Context-Based Speech Act Classification in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Borhan Samei, Haiying Li, Fazel Keshtkar, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 12th International Conference, 2014

Macro-adaptation in Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Matters.

Vasile Rus, Dan Stefanescu, William Baggett, Nobal B. Niraula, Donald R. Franceschetti, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 12th International Conference, 2014

Combining Knowledge and Corpus-based Measures for Word-to-Word Similarity.

Dan Stefanescu, Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Rajendra Banjade

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2014

A Bilingual Analysis of Cohesion in a Corpus of Leader Speeches.

Lubna Shala, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2014

Opportunities and Challenges in Semantic Similarity.

Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2014

Towards Assessing Students' Prior Knowledge from Tutorial Dialogues.

Dan Stefanescu, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2014

Mining Gap-fill Questions from Tutorial Dialogues.

Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus, Dan Stefanescu, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2014

Building an Intelligent PAL from the Tutor.com Session Database Phase 1: Data Mining.

Donald M. Morrison, Benjamin Nye, Borhan Samei, Vivek V. Datla, Craig Kelly, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2014

Error Analysis as a Validation of Learning Progressions.

Brent Morgan, William Baggett, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2014

A Sentence Similarity Method Based on Chunking and Information Content.

Dan Stefanescu, Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2014

A Machine Learning Approach to Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2014

2013

Recent Advances in Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Vasile Rus, Sidney K. D'Mello, Xiangen Hu, Arthur C. Graesser

AI Mag., 2013

Experiments with Semantic Similarity Measures Based on LDA and LSA.

Nobal B. Niraula, Rajendra Banjade, Dan Stefanescu, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Statistical Language and Speech Processing, 2013

Towards a Structured Representation of Generic Concepts and Relations in Large Text Corpora.

Archana Bhattarai, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2013

A Study of Probabilistic and Algebraic Methods for Semantic Similarity.

Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Rajendra Banjade

Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2013

SEMILAR: A Semantic Similarity Toolkit for Assessing Students' Natural Language Inputs.

Vasile Rus, Rajendra Banjade, Mihai C. Lintean, Nobal B. Niraula, Dan Stefanescu

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2013

DARE: Deep Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue based Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus, Dan Stefanescu

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2013

Similarity Measures Based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation.

Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Rajendra Banjade

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2013

Recommendations for the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring Based on the Development of the Deep Tutor Service.

Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Mihai C. Lintean, Rajendra Banjade, Dan Stefanescu, William Baggett

Proceedings of the Workshops at the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education AIED 2013, 2013

The SCHOLAR Legacy: A New Look at the Affordances of Semantic Networks for Conversational Agents in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Donald M. Morrison, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Workshops at the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education AIED 2013, 2013

SEMILAR: The Semantic Similarity Toolkit.

Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Rajendra Banjade, Nobal B. Niraula, Dan Stefanescu

Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

2012

A Detailed Account of The First Question Generation Shared Task Evaluation Challenge.

Vasile Rus, Brendan Wyse, Paul Piwek, Mihai C. Lintean, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Cristian Moldovan

Dialogue Discourse, 2012

G-Asks: An Intelligent Automatic Question Generation System for Academic Writing Support.

Ming Liu, Rafael A. Calvo, Vasile Rus

Dialogue Discourse, 2012

Automatic Detection of Student Mental Models Based on Natural Language Student Input During Metacognitive Skill Training.

Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus, Roger Azevedo

Int. J. Artif. Intell. Educ., 2012

An Optimal Assessment of Natural Language Student Input Using Word-to-Word Similarity Metrics.

Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean

Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 11th International Conference, 2012

Facilitating Co-adaptation of Technology and Education through the Creation of an Open-Source Repository of Interoperable Code.

Philip I. Pavlik Jr., Jaclyn K. Maass, Vasile Rus, Andrew Olney

Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 11th International Conference, 2012

Measuring Semantic Similarity in Short Texts through Greedy Pairing and Word Semantics.

Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2012

Automatic Discovery of Speech Act Categories in Educational Games.

Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Cristian Moldovan, Nobal B. Niraula

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2012

Automated Detection of Local Coherence in Short Argumentative Essays Based on Centering Theory.

Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2012

A Domain Independent Framework to Extract and Aggregate Analogous Features in Online Reviews.

Archana Bhattarai, Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus, King-Ip (David) Lin

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2012

A Comparison of Greedy and Optimal Assessment of Natural Language Student Input Using Word-to-Word Similarity Metrics.

Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean

Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP, 2012

2011

Automated Speech Act Classification For Online Chat.

Cristian Moldovan, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of The 22nd Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference 2011, 2011

A Linguistic Analysis of Student-Generated Paraphrases.

Vasile Rus, Shi Feng, Russell D. Brandon, Scott A. Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2011

Dissimilarity Kernels for Paraphrase Identification.

Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2011

Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing.

Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2011

Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge - Status Report.

Vasile Rus, Brendan Wyse, Paul Piwek, Mihai C. Lintean, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Cristian Moldovan

Proceedings of the ENLG 2011, 2011

2010

Paraphrase Identification Using Weighted Dependencies and Word Semantics.

Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus

Informatica (Slovenia), 2010

Automatic Question Generation for Literature Review Writing Support.

Ming Liu, Rafael A. Calvo, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 10th International Conference, 2010

The First Question Generation Shared Task Evaluation Challenge.

Vasile Rus, Brendan Wyse, Paul Piwek, Mihai C. Lintean, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Cristian Moldovan

Proceedings of the INLG 2010, 2010

Deciphering the complex nature of log-file data collected during self-regulated learning with MetaTutor.

Roger Azevedo, Amy M. Witherspoon, Amber Chauncey, Mihai C. Lintean, Zhiqiang Cai, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the Learning in the Disciplines: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2010

Computational Aspects of the Intelligent Tutoring System MetaTutor.

Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Roger Azevedo

Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2010

The Role of Local and Global Weighting in Assessing the Semantic Similarity of Texts Using Latent Semantic Analysis.

Mihai C. Lintean, Cristian Moldovan, Vasile Rus, Danielle S. McNamara

Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2010

The Role of Prompting and Feedback in Facilitating Students' Learning about Science with MetaTutor.

Roger Azevedo, Amy Johnson, Candice Burkett, Amber Chauncey, Mihai C. Lintean, Zhiqiang Cai, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Cognitive and Metacognitive Educational Systems, 2010

2009

Natural Language Understanding and Assessment.

Vasile Rus, Philip M. McCarthy, Danielle S. McNamara, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (3 Volumes), 2009

Clustering of Defect Reports Using Graph Partitioning Algorithms.

Vasile Rus, Xiaofei Nan, Sajjan G. Shiva, Yixin Chen

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2009), 2009

Automatic Detection of Student Mental Models During Prior Knowledge Activation in MetaTutor.

Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Roger Azevedo

Proceedings of the Educational Data Mining, 2009

Characterizing comment spam in the blogosphere through content analysis.

Archana Bhattarai, Vasile Rus, Dipankar Dasgupta

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security, 2009

Assessing Student Paraphrases Using Lexical Semantics and Word Weighting.

Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling, 2009

The 2nd Workshop on Question Generation.

Vasile Rus, James C. Lester

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling, 2009

MetaTutor: Analyzing Self-Regulated Learning in a Tutoring System for Biology.

Roger Azevedo, Amy M. Witherspoon, Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara, Amber Chauncey, Emily Siler, Zhiqiang Cai, Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling, 2009

2008

A Study of Textual Entailment.

Vasile Rus, Philip M. McCarthy, Danielle S. McNamara, Arthur C. Graesser

Int. J. Artif. Intell. Tools, 2008

Large Scale Experiments with Naive Bayes and Decision Trees for Function Tagging.

Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus

Int. J. Artif. Intell. Tools, 2008

Automatic Clustering of Defect Reports.

Vasile Rus, Sameer Mohammed, Sajjan G. Shiva

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2008), 2008

Paraphrase Identification with Lexico-Syntactic Graph Subsumption.

Vasile Rus, Philip M. McCarthy, Mihai C. Lintean, Danielle S. McNamara, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2008

A Semantic Method for Textual Entailment.

Andrew Neel, Max H. Garzon, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2008

Assessing Forward-, Reverse-, and Average-Entailer Indices on Natural Language Input from the Intelligent Tutoring System, iSTART.

Philip M. McCarthy, Vasile Rus, Scott A. Crossley, Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara

Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2008

2007

Assessing Entailer with a Corpus of Natural Language from an Intelligent Tutoring System.

Philip M. McCarthy, Vasile Rus, Scott A. Crossley, Sarah C. Bigham, Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2007

Naive Bayes and Decision Trees for Function Tagging.

Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2007

Unsupervised Method for Parsing Coordinated Base Noun Phrases.

Vasile Rus, Sireesha Ravi, Mihai C. Lintean, Philip M. McCarthy

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2007

Experiments on Generating Questions About Facts.

Vasile Rus, Zhiqiang Cai, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2007

2006

Evaluating State-of-the-Art Treebank-style Parsers for Coh-Metrix and Other Learning Technology Environments.

Christian Hempelmann, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara

Nat. Lang. Eng., 2006

The Look and Feel of a Confident Entailer.

Vasile Rus, Art Graesser

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2006

Dependency-based Textual Entailment.

Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2006

Analysis of a Textual Entailer.

Vasile Rus, Philip M. McCarthy, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2006

Deeper Natural Language Processing for Evaluating Student Answers in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser

Proceedings of the Proceedings, 2006

2005

A Study on Textual Entailment.

Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Philip M. McCarthy, King-Ip (David) Lin

Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2005), 2005

Few Models for Grammatical Relations Recovery.

Vasile Rus, Kirtan Desai

Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2005

A Method to Generate Large Common-Sense Knowledge Bases from Online Lexical Resources.

Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2005

Assigning Function Tags with a Simple Model.

Vasile Rus, Kirtan Desai

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2005

2004

A first evaluation of logic form identification systems.

Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text, 2004

A Model for Identifying the Underlying Logical Structure of Natural Language.

Vasile Rus, Alex Fit-Florea

Proceedings of the PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, 2004

Experiments with Machine Learning for Logic Arguments Identification.

Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the MAICS 2004, 2004

Functional Arguments Detection Using Decision Trees.

Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004

2002

High Performance Logic Form Transformation.

Vasile Rus, Dan I. Moldovan

Int. J. Artif. Intell. Tools, 2002

Bracketing Compound Nouns for Logic Form Derivation.

Vasile Rus, Dan I. Moldovan, Orest Bolohan

Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2002

2001

Answering Complex, List and Context Questions with LCC's Question-Answering Server.

Sanda M. Harabagiu, Dan I. Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Mihai Surdeanu, Rada Mihalcea, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus, V. Finley Lacatusu, Paul Morarescu, Razvan C. Bunescu

Proceedings of The Tenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2001

High Precision Logic Form Transformation.

Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2001

Transformation of WordNet Glosses into Logic Forms.

Dan I. Moldovan, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2001

Logic Form Transformation of WordNet and its Applicability to Question Answering.

Dan I. Moldovan, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistic, 2001

The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedback in Open-Domain Textual Question-Answering.

Sanda M. Harabagiu, Dan I. Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Surdeanu, Razvan C. Bunescu, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus, Paul Morarescu

Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistic, 2001

2000

FALCON: Boosting Knowledge for Answer Engines.

Sanda M. Harabagiu, Dan I. Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Surdeanu, Razvan C. Bunescu, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus, Paul Morarescu

Proceedings of The Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, 2000

Domain-Specific Knowledge Acquisition from Text.

Dan I. Moldovan, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 6th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, 2000

The Structure and Performance of an Open-Domain Question Answering System.

Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Roxana Girju, Richard Goodrum, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2000

1999

LASSO: A Tool for Surfing the Answer Net.

Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Richard Goodrum, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus

Proceedings of The Eighth Text REtrieval Conference, 1999