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Culture Modeling
Tutoring and Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Discourse Planning for Tutoring
Ph.D. Thesis
Dialog Parsing Papers
Dialog Annotation Papers
Invited Talks

Culture Modeling

Steven Solomon, Michael van Lent, Mark Core, Paul Carpenter, and Milton Rosenberg. (2008). A Language for Modeling Cultural Norms, Biases and Stereotypes for Human Behavior Models. Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS08), Providence, RI.

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Michael van Lent, Mark Core, Milton Rosenberg, Ryan McAlinden, Paul Carpenter, Steve Solomon, and Tae Yoon. (2007). Culturally-Affected Human Behavior Modeling and Its Applications to Serious Games. The Bridge, vol. 37, no. 4, Winter, National Academy of Engineering.

Tutoring and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Julia C. Campbell, Matthew Jensen Hays, Mark Core, Mike Birch, Matt Bosack, Richard E. Clark. (2011). Interpersonal and leadership skills: Using virtual humans to teach new officers. Proceedings of the 2011 Interservice/Industry Training Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC 2011). Best paper honorable mention.

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Julia Campbell, Mark Core, Ron Artstein, Lindsay Armstrong, Arno Hartholt, Cyrus Wilson, Kallirroi Georgila, Fabrizio Morbini, Edward Haynes, Dave Gomboc, Mike Birch, Jonathan Bobrow, H. Chad Lane, Jillian Gerten, Anton Leuski, David Traum, Matthew Trimmer, Rich DiNinni, Matthew Bosack, Timothy Jones, Richard E. Clark & Kenneth A. Yates. (2011). Developing INOTS to Support Interpersonal Skills Practice. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT.
H. Chad Lane, Matthew J. Hays, Daniel Auerbach, & Mark Core. (2010). Investigating the relationship between presence and learning in a serious game. Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Tenth International Conference (ITS 2010), Pittsburgh, PA, pages 274-284.
Robert Wray, H. Chad Lane, Brian Stensrud, Mark Core, Laura Hamel, & Eric Forbell. (2009). Pedagogical Experience Manipulation for Cultural Learning. CATS 2009: 2nd Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems held in conjunction with AIED 2009. Full proceedings for CATS 2008 and 2009.
H. Chad Lane, Mark Core, Dave Gomboc, Mike Birch, John Hart, & Milton Rosenberg. (2009). Using Written and Behavioral Data to Detect Evidence of Continuous Learning. In proceedings of the User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) Workshop on Lifelong Learner Modeling, 54-61, June, Trento, Italy.
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Matthew Hays, H. Chad Lane, Daniel Auerbach, Mark G. Core, Dave Gomboc, & Milton Rosenberg. (2009). Feedback Specificity and the Learning of Intercultural Communication Skills. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2009).
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Julia M. Kim, Randall W. Hill, Jr., Paula J. Durlach, H. Chad Lane, Eric Forbell, Mark Core, Stacy Marsella, David V. Pynadath, and John Hart. (2009). BiLAT: A Game-Based Environment for Practicing Negotiation in a Cultural Context Special Issue on Ill-Defined Domains: International Journal of AI in Education, 19(3), 289-308.
Dave Gomboc, H. Chad Lane, Mark Core, Ashish Karnavat, Daniel Auerbach, and Milton Rosenberg. (2008). An Intelligent Tutoring Framework for Simulation-based Training. Short paper in the 16th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2008.

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H. Chad Lane, Matthew Hays, Mark Core, Dave Gomboc, Eric Forbell, and Milton Rosenberg. (2008). Coaching Intercultural Communication in a Serious Game. 16th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2008, WINNER BEST PAPER AWARD.
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Dave Gomboc, Mark Core, H. Chad Lane, Ashish Karnavat, & Milton Rosenberg (2008). An Intelligent Tutoring Architecture for Simulation-based Training. Poster presentation at the 21st International FLAIRS (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium) Conference, Track on Artificial Intelligence Education, Coconut Grove, FL., May 2008.

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H. Chad Lane, Mark G. Core, Dave Gomboc, Ashish Karnavat, & Milton Rosenberg. (2007). Intelligent Tutoring for Interpersonal and Intercultural Skills. Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC 2007), Orlando, FL.

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Core, M. G., Traum, D., Lane, H. C., Swartout, W., Marsella, S., Gratch, J., and van Lent, M. (2006). Teaching negotiation skills through practice and reflection with virtual humans. SIMULATION, November, Vol. 82 No. 11 685-701.
R. Hill, J. Belanich, , H. Lane, , M. Core, M. Dixon, E. Forbell, J. Kim, J. Hart, Pedagogically Structured Game-Based Training: Development of the ELECT BiLAT Simulation, Proceedings of the 25th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, November 27-30, 2006.
H. Chad Lane, Mark Core, Dave Gomboc, Steve Solomon, Michael van Lent, and Milton Rosenberg, Reflective Tutoring for Immersive Simulation, Short paper in the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2006), Jhongli, Taiwan. June 2006.
Mark G. Core, H. Chad Lane, Michael van Lent, Dave Gomboc, Steve Solomon, and Milton Rosenberg, Building Explainable Artificial Intelligence Systems, Proceedings of the Eighteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-06), Boston, MA, July 2006.
Mark G. Core, H. Chad Lane, Michael van Lent, Steve Solomon, Dave Gomboc, and Paul Carpenter, Toward Question Answering for Simulations, Poster presentation at the Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions (KRAQ05) workshop at IJCAI 05, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.
H. Chad Lane, Mark G. Core, Michael van Lent, Steve Solomon, and Dave Gomboc, Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Training and Tutoring, Short paper in the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AIED05), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2005.
Dave Gomboc, Steve Solomon, Mark G. Core, H. Chad Lane, and Michael van Lent, Design Recommendations to Support Automated Explanation and Tutoring, Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS05), Universal City, CA, May 2005.

Discourse Planning for Tutoring

Claus Zinn, Johanna D. Moore, Mark G. Core, Sebastian Varges, and Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, The BE&E Tutorial Learning Environment (BEETLE), System Demonstration, Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DiaBruck 2003), Saarbrucken, Germany, September 2003.

Claus Zinn, Johanna D. Moore, and Mark G. Core, Intelligent Information Presentation for Tutoring Systems, Intelligent Information Presentation, Kluwer, In Press.

Claus Zinn, Johanna D. Moore, and Mark G. Core, A 3-tier Planning Architecture for Managing Tutorial Dialogue, System Demonstration at the Sixth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (EDILOG 2002), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, September 2002, page 200.

Claus Zinn, Johanna D. Moore, and Mark G. Core, A 3-tier Planning Architecture for Managing Tutorial Dialogue, Presented at Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Sixth International Conference (ITS 2002), Biarritz, France, June 2002, pages 574-584.

Mark G. Core, Johanna D. Moore, and Claus Zinn, Supporting Constructive Learning with a Feedback Planner, Poster presentation at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications, Cape Cod, MA, November 2000. Available as part of AAAI technical report FS-00-01, pages 1-9.

Mark G. Core, Johanna D. Moore, Claus Zinn, and Peter Wiemer-Hastings, Modeling Human Teaching Tactics in a Computer Tutor, Presented at the ITS 2000 Workshop on Modeling Human Teaching Tactics and Strategies, Montreal, Canada, June 2000, pages 20-31.

Ph.D. Thesis

Mark G. Core, Dialog Parsing: From Speech Repairs to Speech Acts, Ph.D. Thesis and Technical Report 721, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0226, December 1999.

Dialog Parsing Papers

Mark G. Core and Johanna D. Moore, Robustness versus Fidelity in Natural Language Understanding, presented at the Second International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding, held at NAACL-04.

Mark Core and Lenhart Schubert, A Model of Speech Repairs and Other Disruptions, Presented at AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication in Collaborative Systems, Cape Cod, MA, November 1999. (pages 48-53 in the working notes)

Mark Core and Lenhart Schubert, Speech Repairs: A Parsing Perspective, Presented at the ICPhS Satellite Meeting on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, Berkeley, CA, July 1999. (pages 47-50 in the working notes)

Mark Core and Lenhart Schubert, A Syntactic Framework for Speech Repairs and Other Disruptions, Presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-99), College Park, MD, June 1999. (pages 413-420)

Mark Core and Lenhart Schubert, Implementing Parser Metarules that Handle Speech Repairs and Other Disruptions, Presented at the 11th International FLAIRS (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium) Conference, Sanibel Island, FL., May 1998, pages 283-288, proceedings edited by Diane Cook. Note the electronic version contains two corrections not in the conference proceedings version.

Mark Core and Lenhart Schubert, Handling Speech Repairs and Other Disruptions Through Parser Metarules, Presented at AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction, Stanford, CA, March 1997. Available as part of AAAI technical report SS-97-04, pages 23-29.

Mark Core and Lenhart Schubert, "Dialog Parsing in the TRAINS System", Technical Report 612, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0226.

Mark Core, "Using Parsed Corpora for Structural Disambiguation in the TRAINS Domain", a poster presentation during the student session of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-96), Santa Cruz, CA, pages 345-347

Mark Core and Lenhart Schubert, "Using Parsed Corpora for Structural Disambiguation in the TRAINS Domain", Technical Report 608, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0226. Note, this is a longer version of the ACL-96 paper

Dialog Annotation Papers

General Work:

The Report of The Third Workshop of the Discourse Resource Initiative, Editors: Mark Core, Masato Ishizaki, Johanna Moore, Christine Nakatani, Norbert Reithinger, David Traum, and Syun Tutiya, Chiba Corpus Project Technical Report No. 3 (CC-TR-99-1), Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Faculty of Letters, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8522 (email corpus-project@CogSci.L.chiba-u.ac.jp), August, 1999.

James Allen and Mark Core, Draft of DAMSL: Dialog Annotation Markup in Several Layers.

In the domain of tutoring basic electricity and electronics:

The following papers use a corpus of tutoring dialogues concerning basic eletricity and electronics which were annotated for initiative using this annotation manual.

Mark G. Core, Johanna D. Moore, and Claus Zinn, The Role of Initiative in Tutorial Dialogue, presented at the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary, April, 2003.

Mark G. Core, Johanna D. Moore, and Claus Zinn, Initiative in Tutorial Dialogue, Presented at the ITS 2002 Workshop on Empirical Methods for Tutorial Dialogue Systems, San Sebastian, Spain, June 2002, pages 46-55.

Mark G. Core, Johanna D. Moore, and Claus Zinn, Initiative Management for Tutorial Dialogue, NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2001.

In the domain of transport planning:

Teresa Zollo and Mark Core, Automatically Extracting Grounding Tags from BF Tags, Presented at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Workshop on Standards and Tools for Discourse Tagging, June, 1999, pages 109-114.

Mark Core, Analyzing and Predicting Patterns of DAMSL Utterance Tags, Presented at AAAI Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, Stanford, CA, March 1998. Available as part of AAAI technical report SS-98-01, pages 18-24.

Mark Core and James Allen, Coding Dialogs with the DAMSL Annotation Scheme, Presented at AAAI Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, Boston, MA, November 1997, pages 28-35. This addendum to the workshop paper uses a different inter-annotator reliability calculation.

Invited Talks (excluding presentations of above papers)

"Predicting Success of a Tutorial Dialogue", ISLE Workshop on Dialogue Tagging for Multi-Modal Human Computer Interaction, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, December 2002.

"Annotating Tutorial Dialogue", ITS 2002 Workshop on Empirical Methods for Tutorial Dialogue Systems, San Sebastian, Spain, June 2002.

Panel presentations, "Natural Language Understanding" and "A Taxonomy of Tutorial Annotations", AAAI Fall Symposium on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications, Cape Cod, MA, November 2000.

"Implementing Parser Metarules that Handle Speech Repairs and Other Disruptions", Northeast Cognitive Science Society (NECSS) Graduate Conference, Cornell University, May 1998.

"Allowing 'Freeform' Dialogs with a Computerized Planning Assistant", Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, Rochester NY, March 1997.

"Handling Speech Repairs and Other Disruptions Through Parser Metarules" (POSTER), Cognitive Science Graduate Mini-Conference, University of Rochester, February 1997.

"KANKEI, a structural disambiguation system for the TRAINS Project", Computer Science Department, State Univ. of N.Y. at Geneseo, November 1996.

"KANKEI, a structural disambiguation system for the TRAINS Project", Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, Rochester NY, April 1996.

Here are some slides from an internal talk I gave on speech repairs.