Current Projects:
- ITSPOKE: an Intelligent Tutoring SPOKEn dialogue system
- Monitoring Student State in Tutorial Spoken Dialogue
- Tutoring Scientific Explanations via Natural Language Dialogue
- Adapting to Student Uncertainty over and above Correctness in A Spoken Tutoring Dialogue System
- Cohesion in Tutorial Dialogue and its Impact on Learning
- Recognizing linguistic expressions of private states for use in NLP applications (opinions, evaluations, speculations, emotions, sentiments); Automatic subjectivity analysis
- Improving Subjectivity Analysis to Achieve High-Precision Information Extraction
- Opinions In Automatic Question Answering
- Released corpus: MPQA Opinion Corpus(v.1.2) with contextual polarity annotations
- Semi-supervised approaches to multilingual processing
- Learning Syntax-based Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation