Mark G. Core Research Scientist USC Institute for Creative Technologies 12015 Waterfront Drive Playa Vista, CA 90094 USA

email: my-last-name <AT>ict.usc.edu

Previous Locations

• As an undergraduate: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Computer Science Department
• As a graduate student: University of Rochester, Computer Science Department.
• As a research fellow: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Previous Work

• Dialog Parsing (see also Ph.D. thesis)
• Dialog Annotation (see also Ph.D. thesis)
• Discourse Planning for Tutoring
• Culture Modeling

Main Projects:

• TACL (Technologies for Accelerated Continous Learning)

  The overarching goal of TACL as described by the 2008 TACL Workshop at ICT is Intelligent Lifelong Learning Companions. The official project page details the short term goal of open learner modeling based on reflective essays and log files from computer based training environments. This project involves research areas such as intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge representation, and natural language understanding.



• IGEL (Intelligent Guided Experiential Learning):

  Inspired by Richard Clark's guided experiential learning, IGEL provides guidance and feedback to learners in realistic simulations. The official project page discusses the work of the IGEL project with the Virtual Humans (for negotiation training), the BiLAT training system for bilateral negotiations, and the UrbanSim training system for counterinsurgency operations. We are also working with Soar Technologies on a project called IMPACT related to BiLAT (for more details, see the paper "Pedagogical Experience Manipulation for Cultural Learning" under publications). This project ties together my previous work on discourse planning for tutoring and culture modeling, and involves research areas such as intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge representation, natural language generation, and intelligent agents.