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Publications, Joseph E Beck

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow and J.E. Beck
  Scale-Up in Education, B. Schneider & S.-K. McDonald, ed., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD, Vol. 2, 2007, pp. 183 - 200. [Abstract]

• Can automated questions scaffold children's reading comprehension?
  J.E. Beck, J. Mostow, and J. Bey
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, September, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Using knowledge tracing to measure student reading proficiencies
  J.E. Beck and J. Sison
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, September, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Lessons on using ITS data to answer educational research questions
  C. Heiner, J.E. Beck, and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the ITS2004 Workshop on Analyzing Student-Tutor Interaction Logs to Improve Educational Outcomes, August, 2004, pp. 1 - 9. [Abstract]
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• Using response times to model student disengagement
  J.E. Beck
  Proceedings of the ITS2004 Workshop on Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments, August, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Automated student assessment in language tutors
  J.E. Beck and J. Sison
  CALICO, June, 2004. [Abstract]

• Improving the Help Selection Policy in a Reading Tutor that Listens
  C. Heiner, J.E. Beck, and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the InSTIL/ICALL Symposium on NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems, June, 2004, pp. 195 - 198. [Abstract]
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• Using automated speech recognition to measure scaffolding and learning effects of word identification interventions in a computer tutor that listens
  J.E. Beck, J. Sison, and J. Mostow
  Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, June, 2004.

• Which Help Helps? Effects of Various Types of Help on Word Learning in an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, and C. Heiner
  Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, June, 2004. [Abstract]

• Automatically assessing oral reading fluency in a computer tutor that listens
  J.E. Beck, P. Jia, and J. Mostow
  Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, Vol. 1, 2004, pp. 61 - 81. [Abstract]
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• Using automated questions to assess reading comprehension, vocabulary, and effects of tutorial interventions
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, J. Bey, A. Cuneo, J. Sison, B. Tobin, and J. Valeri
  Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, Vol. 2, 2004, pp. 97 - 134. [Abstract]
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• Improving Language Models by Learning from Speech Recognition Errors in a Reading Tutor that Listens
  S. Banerjee, J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, and W. Tam
  Second International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence, December, 2003. [Abstract]
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• Evaluating the Effect of Predicting Oral Reading Miscues
  S. Banerjee, J.E. Beck, and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2003), September, 2003, pp. 3165 - 3168. [Abstract]
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• Training a Confidence Measure for a Reading Tutor that Listens
  Y. Tam, J.E. Beck, J. Mostow, and S. Banerjee
  Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2003), September, 2003. [Abstract]
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• Can automated questioning help children's reading comprehension?
  J.E. Beck, J. Mostow, A. Cuneo, and J. Bey
  Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2003), July, 2003, pp. 380 - 382. [Abstract]
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• Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor: Interactive Event Description
  J. Mostow and J.E. Beck
  Supplemental Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2003), July, 2003, pp. 30 - 32. [Abstract]
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• An Embedded Experiment to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Vocabulary Previews in an Automated Reading Tutor
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, J. Bey, A. Cuneo, J. Sison, and B. Tobin
  Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, June, 2003. [Abstract]

• Assessing student proficiency in a Reading Tutor that listens
  J.E. Beck, P. Jia, and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on User Modeling, June, 2003, pp. 323 - 327. [Abstract]
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• Can Automated Emotional Scaffolding Affect Student Persistence? A Baseline Experiment
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, and J. Valeri
  Proceedings of the Workshop on "Assessing and Adapting to User Attitudes and Affect: Why, When and How?" at the 9th International Conference on User Modeling (UM'03), June, 2003, pp. 61 - 64. [Abstract]
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• Predicting student help-request behavior in an intelligent tutor for reading
  J.E. Beck, P. Jia, J. Sison, and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on User Modeling, June, 2003, pp. 303 - 312. [Abstract]
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• Viewing and Analyzing Multimodal Human-computer Tutorial Dialogue: A Database Approach
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, R. Chalasani, A. Cuneo, and P. Jia
  Fourth IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2002), October, 2002, pp. 129 - 134. [Abstract]
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• Predicting oral reading miscues
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, S.V. Winter, S. Wang, and B. Tobin
  Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-02), September, 2002. [Abstract]
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• A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, or As Time Goes By: Where does the time go in a Reading Tutor that listens?
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, J.E. Beck, R. Chalasani, A. Cuneo, P. Jia, and K. Kadaru
  Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS'2002), Springer-Verlag, June, 2002. [Abstract]
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• Can a Reading Tutor that Listens use Inter-word Latency to Assess a Student's Reading Ability?
  P. Jia, J.E. Beck, and J. Mostow
  ITS 2002 Workshop on Creating Valid Diagnostic Assessments, June, 2002. [Abstract]
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• Directing Development Effort with Simulated Students
  J.E. Beck
  Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS'2002), June, 2002. [Abstract]
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• Viewing and Analyzing Multimodal Human-computer Tutorial Dialogue: A Database Approach
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, R. Chalasani, A. Cuneo, and P. Jia
  ITS 2002 Workshop on Empirical Methods for Tutorial Dialogue Systems, June, 2002. [Abstract]
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