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Annotating Student Talk in Text-based Classroom Discussions
Luca Lugini, Diane Litman, Amanda Godley +1
Classroom discussions in English Language Arts have a positive effect on students' reading, writing and reasoning skills. Although prior work has largely focused on teacher talk an…
Argument Component Classification for Classroom Discussions
Luca Lugini, Diane Litman
This paper focuses on argument component classification for transcribed spoken classroom discussions, with the goal of automatically classifying student utterances into claims, evi…
Annotation and Classification of Sentence-level Revision Improvement
Tazin Afrin, Diane Litman
Studies of writing revisions rarely focus on revision quality. To address this issue, we introduce a corpus of between-draft revisions of student argumentative essays, annotated as…
Identifying Editor Roles in Argumentative Writing from Student Revision Histories
Tazin Afrin, Diane Litman
We present a method for identifying editor roles from students' revision behaviors during argumentative writing. We first develop a method for applying a topic modeling algorithm t…
Predicting Specificity in Classroom Discussion
Luca Lugini, Diane Litman
High quality classroom discussion is important to student development, enhancing abilities to express claims, reason about other students' claims, and retain information for longer…
Identifying Personality Traits Using Overlap Dynamics in Multiparty Dialogue
Mingzhi Yu, Emer Gilmartin, Diane Litman
Research on human spoken language has shown that speech plays an important role in identifying speaker personality traits. In this work, we propose an approach for identifying spea…