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Publications, Gregory Aist

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

• 4-Month Evaluation of a Learner-controlled Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, C. Huang, B. Junker, R. Kennedy, H. Lan, D.T. Latimer, IV, R. O'Connor, R. Tassone, B. Tobin, and A. Wierman
  The Path of Speech Technologies in Computer Assisted Language Learning: From Research Toward Practice, V. M. Holland, F. N. Fisher, ed., Routledge, New York, 2008, pp. 201 - 219. [Abstract]

• Faster, better task choice in a reading tutor that listens
  G. Aist and J. Mostow
  The Path of Speech Technologies in Computer Assisted Language Learning: From Research Toward Practice, V. M. Holland, F. N. Fisher, ed., Routledge, New York, 2008, pp. 220 - 240. [Abstract]

• Evaluation of an automated Reading Tutor that listens: Comparison to human tutoring and classroom instruction
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, P. Burkhead, A. Corbett, A. Cuneo, S. Eitelman, C. Huang, B. Junker, M.B. Sklar, and B. Tobin
  Journal of Educational Computing Research, Vol. 29, No. 1, January, 2003, pp. 61 - 117. [Abstract]

• 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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• Adding Human-Provided Emotional Scaffolding to an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens Increases Student Persistence
  G. Aist, B. Kort, R. Reilly, J. Mostow, and R. Picard
  Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS'2002), June, 2002.
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• Experimentally Augmenting an Intelligent Tutoring System with Human-Supplied Capabilities: Adding Human-Provided Emotional Scaffolding to an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens
  G. Aist, B. Kort, R. Reilly, J. Mostow, and R. Picard
  ITS 2002 Workshop on Empirical Methods for Tutorial Dialogue Systems, June, 2002. [Abstract]
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• Independent practice versus computer-guided oral reading: Equal-time comparison of sustained silent reading to an automated reading tutor that listens
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, J. Bey, P. Burkhead, A. Cuneo, B. Junker, S.M. Rossbach, B. Tobin, J. Valeri, and S. Wilson
  Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, June, 2002. [Abstract]
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• Evaluation of an automated Reading Tutor that listens: Comparison to human tutoring and classroom instruction
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, P. Burkhead, unknown, A. Cuneo, S. Eitelman, C. Huang, B. Junker, M.B. Sklar, and B. Tobin
  Journal of Educational Computing Research, Vol. 28, 2002. [Abstract]

• Helping Children Learn Vocabulary During Computer-Assisted Oral Reading
  G. Aist
  Educational Technology and Society, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2002. [Abstract]

• Towards automatic glossarization: automatically constructing and administering vocabulary assistance factoids and multiple-choice assessment
  G. Aist
  International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Vol. 12, December, 2001, pp. 212 - 231. [Abstract]

• Towards Worldwide Literacy: Technological Affordances, Economic Challenges, Affordable Technology
  G. Aist
  Workshop on Collaborative Open Source Design of Appropriate Technologies, July, 2001.
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• A hands-on demonstration of Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor and its embedded experiments
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, J. Bey, P. Burkhead, A. Cuneo, S.M. Rossbach, B. Tobin, J. Valeri, and S. Wilson
  The Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, June, 2001. [Abstract]
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• A controlled evaluation of computer- versus human-assisted oral reading
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, P. Burkhead, A. Corbett, A. Cuneo, S. Eitelman, C. Huang, B. Junker, B. Platz, M.B. Sklar, and B. Tobin
  Proceedings of the Tenth Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED) Conference, May, 2001. [Abstract]
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• Factoids: Automatically constructing and administering vocabulary assistance and assessment
  G. Aist
  Proceedings of the Tenth Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED) Conference, May, 2001. [Abstract]

• 4-Month Evaluation of a Learner-controlled Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, C. Huang, B. Junker, R. Kennedy, H. Lan, D.L. IV, R. O'Connor, R. Tassone, B. Tobin, and A. Wierman
  Speech Technology for Language Learning, Philippe DeCloque and Melissa Holland, ed., Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, The Netherlands, 2001. [Abstract]

• Balancing Learner and Tutor Control by Taking Turns: Faster and Better Mixed-Initiative Task Choice in a Reading Tutor that Listens
  G. Aist and J. Mostow
  Speech Technology for Language Learning, Philippe DeCloque and Melissa Holland, ed., Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, The Netherlands, 2001. [Abstract]

• Computer-assisted oral reading helps third graders learn vocabulary better than a classroom control - about as well as one-on-one human-assisted oral reading.
  G. Aist, J. Mostow, B. Tobin, P. Burkhead, unknown, A. Cuneo, B. Junker, and M.B. Sklar
  Proceedings of the Tenth Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED) Conference, 2001. [Abstract]
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• Evaluating tutors that listen: An overview of Project LISTEN
  J. Mostow and G. Aist
  Smart Machines in Education: The coming revolution in educational technology., K. Forbus andP. Feltovich, ed., MIT/AAAI Press, 2001, pp. 169 - 234.

• Identifying words to explain to a reader: A preliminary study
  G. Aist
  Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000), August, 2000, pp. 1061. [Abstract]

• Helping children learn vocabulary during computer assisted oral reading
  G. Aist
  Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000), July, 2000, pp. 1100-1101.
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• Taking Turns Talking About Text in a Reading Tutor that Listens
  G. Aist
  Proceedings of the Third Workshop On Human-Machine Conversation, July, 2000. [Abstract]

• An informal model of vocabulary acquisition during assisted oral reading and some implications for computerized instruction
  G. Aist
  Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS'2000 Young Researchers Track Proceedings, June, 2000, pp. 22 - 24.

• Human Tutor and Computer Tutor Story Choice in Listening to Children Read Aloud
  G. Aist
  Proceedings of the ITS'2000 Workshop on Modeling Human Teaching Tactics and Strategies, Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, June, 2000, pp. 8 - 10. [Abstract]

• Improving story choice in a reading tutor that listens
  G. Aist and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS?2000), June, 2000, pp. 645. [Abstract]

• Using Automated Within-Subject Invisible Experiments to Test the Effectiveness of Automated Vocabulary Assistance
  G. Aist and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of ITS'2000 Workshop on Applying Machine Learning to ITS Design/Construction, Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, June, 2000, pp. 4 - 8. [Abstract]

• Measuring the Effects of Backchanneling in Computerized Oral Reading Tutoring
  G. Aist and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the ESCA Workshop on Prosody and Dialog, September, 1999. [Abstract]
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• Authoring New Material in a Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow and G. Aist
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), July, 1999. [Abstract]
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• Reading and Pronunciation Tutor
  J. Mostow and G. Aist
  United States Patent No. 5,920,838, July, 1999. [Abstract]

• Skill-specific spoken dialogs in a reading tutor that listens
  G. Aist
  Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 99 Extended Abstracts, May, 1999, pp. 55 - 56.

• Speech recognition in computer assisted language learning
  G. Aist
  Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL): Media, Design, and Applications, K. C. Cameron, ed., Swets & Zeitlinger, The Netherlands, 1999.

• Expanding A Time-Sensitive Conversational Architecture For Turn-Taking To Handle Content-Driven Interruption
  G. Aist
  International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP98), December, 1998. [Abstract]

• How effective is unsupervised data collection for children's speech recognition?
  G. Aist, P. Chan, X.D. Huang, L. Jiang, R. Kennedy, D.T. Latimer, IV, J. Mostow, and C. Yeung
  International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP98), December, 1998. [Abstract]
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• Estimating the Effectiveness of Conversational Behaviors in a Reading Tutor that Listens.
  G. Aist and J. Mostow
  AAAI Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, March, 1998. [Abstract]
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• When Listening Is Not Enough: Potential Uses of Vision for a Reading Tutor that Listens.
  J. Kominek, G. Aist, and J. Mostow
  AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Environments, March, 1998. [Abstract]
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• When Speech Input is Not an Afterthought: A Reading Tutor that Listens
  G. Aist and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, October, 1997. [Abstract]
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• Adapting Human Tutorial Interventions for a Reading Tutor that Listens: Using Continuous Speech Recognition in Interactive Educational Multimedia
  G. Aist and J. Mostow
  CALL'97 Conference on Multimedia, September, 1997. [Abstract]
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• The Sounds of Silence: Towards Automated Evaluation of Student Learning in a Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow and G. Aist
  Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97), July, 1997, pp. 355-361. [Abstract]
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• Challenges for a mixed initiative spoken dialog system for oral reading tutoring
  G. Aist
  Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction: Working Notes of the AAAI 1997 Spring Symposium, March, 1997. [Abstract]