PhD Dissertation

Lintean, M.C. (2011). Measuring Semantic Similarity: Representations and Methods (Doctoral dissertation). The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

Dissertation Defense - Presentation Slides. June, 2011. Department of Computer Science, The University of Memphis.

Journal Publications

Lintean, M., Rus, V., & Azevedo R. (in press). Automatic Detection of Student Mental Models during Prior Knowledge Activation in Metatutor. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, IOS Press.

Lintean, M., & Rus, V. (2010). Paraphrase Identification Using Weighted Dependencies and Word Semantics. Informatica, An International Journal of Computing and Informatics, 34(2010):19-28.

Lintean, M., & Rus, V. (2008). Large Scale Experiments with Naïve Bayes and Decision Trees for Function Tagging. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 17(3):483-499, June, 2008.

Book Chapters

Lintean, M., Rus, V., Cai, Z., Witherspoon-Johnson, A., Graesser, A., & Azevedo, R. (2011). Chapter 14: Computational Aspects of the Intelligent Tutoring System MetaTutor. In McCarthy, P.M. & Boonthum-Denecke, C. (Eds.). Applied Natural Language Processing: Identification, Investigation and Resolution. ISBN: 978-1-609-60741-8.

Rus, V., Lintean, M., Graesser, A., & McNamara, D.S. (2011). Chapter 7: Text-to-Text Similarity of Sentences. In McCarthy, P.M. & Boonthum-Denecke, C. (Eds.). Applied Natural Language Processing: Identification, Investigation and Resolution. ISBN 978-1-609-60741-8.

Lester, J., Walker, M., Prasad, R., Lintean, M., & Giordani, N. (2009). Chapter 2: Question Generation Tasks and Subtasks. In Rus, V. & Graesser, A.C. (Eds.). The Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge. ISBN:978-0-615-27428-7.

Conference Proceedings

Lintean, M. & Rus, V. (2015). An Optimal Quadratic Approach to Monolingual Paraphrase Alignment. Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2015).

Banjade, R., Niraula N.B., Maharjan, N., Rus, V., Stefanescu, D, Lintean M. & Gautam, D. (2015). NeRoSim: A System for Measuring and Interpreting Semantic Textual Similarity. Proceedings of the Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015), ACL. Denver, Colorado.

Rus, V., Lintean, M., Banjade, R., Niraula, N.B., & Stefanescu, D, (2013). SEMILAR: The Semantic Similarity Toolkit. Proceedings of the ACL 2013 Demo Track. Sofia, Bulgaria.

Rus, V., Niraula, N.B., Lintean, M., Banjade, R., Stefanescu, D., & Bagget, W. (2013). Recommendations for the generalized intelligent framework for tutoring based on the development of the deeptutor tutoring service. Proceedings of the AIED 2013 Workshop.

Rus, V. & Lintean, M. (2012). A comparison of greedy and optimal assessment of natural language student input using word-to-word similarity metrics. Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP.

Rus, V., Lintean, M., Moldovan, C., Baggett, W., Niraula, N., & Morgan, B. (2012). The SIMILAR Corpus: A Resource to Foster the Qualitative Understanding of Semantic Similarity of Texts. Semantic Relations II: Enhancing Resources and Applications, The 8th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2012). Istanbul, Turkey.

Rus, V. & Lintean, M. (2012). An Optimal Assessment of Natural Language Student Input Using Word-to-Word Similarity Metrics. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2012). Crete, Greece.

Lintean, M. & Rus, V. (2012). Measuring Semantic Similarity in Short Texts through Greedy Pairing and Word Semantics. Proceedings of the 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. Marco Island, FL.

Lintean, M., & Rus, V. (2011). Dissimilarity Kernels for Paraphrase Identification. Proceedings of the 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. Palm Beach, FL.

Rus, V., Wyse, B., Piwek, P., Lintean, M., Stoyanchev S., & Moldovan, C. (2010). Overview of The First Question Generation Shared Task Evaluation Challenge. Proceedings of QG2010: The Third Workshop on Question Generation, at ITS2010. Pittsburg, PA. June.

Azevedo, R., Witherspoon, A.M, Chauncey, A., Lintean, M.C., Cai, Z., Rus, V., Graesser, A. (2010). Deciphering the complex nature of log-file data collected during self-regulated learning with MetaTutor. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS, 2010). Chicago, IL.

Lintean, M., Moldovan, C., Rus, V., & McNamara D. (2010). The Role of Local and Global Weighting in Assessing the Semantic Similarity of Texts Using Latent Semantic Analysis. Proceedings of the 23rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. Daytona Beach, FL.

Rus V., Lintean M., & Azevedo R. (2010). Computational Aspects of the Intelligent Tutoring System MetaTutor. Proceedings of the 23rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. Daytona Beach, FL.

Rus, V., Woolley, E., Lintean, M., & Graesser, A. (2009). Building Resources for An Open Task on Question Generation. The 2nd Workshop on Question Generation. 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Brighton, UK.

Rus, V., Lintean, M., Graesser, A., & McNamara, D. (2009). Assessing Student Paraphrases Using Lexical Semantics and Word Weighting. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Brighton, UK.

Azevedo, R., Witherspoon, A., Graesser, A., McNamara, D., Chauncey, A., Siler, E., Cai, Z., Rus, V., & Lintean, M. (2009). MetaTutor: Analyzing Self-Regulated Learning in a Tutoring System for Biology. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Brighton, UK.

Rus, V., Lintean, M., Azevedo, R. (2009). Automatic Detection of Student Mental Models During Prior Knowledge Activation in MetaTutor. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining. Cordoba, Spain.

Lintean, M., & Rus, V. (2009). Paraphrase Identification Using Weighted Dependencies and Word Semantics. Proceedings of the 22st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. Sanibel Island, FL.

Lintean, M., Rus, V., & Graesser, A. (2008). Using Dependency Relations to Decide Paraphrasing. In Proceedings of the Society for Text and Discourse Conference. Memphis, TN.

Rus, V., Lintean, M., McCarthy, P. M., McNamara, D. S., & Graesser, A. C. (2008). Paraphrase identification with lexico-syntactic graph subsumption. In D. Wilson, & G. Sutcliffe (Ed.), Proceedings of the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (pp. 201-206). Menlo Park, CA: The AAAI Press.

Lintean, M., & Rus, V. (2007). Large Scale Experiments with Function Tagging. Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering: Principles and Techniques. Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Lintean, M., & Rus, V. (2007). Naïve Bayes and Decision Trees for Function Tagging. In D. Wilson, & G. Sutcliffe (Ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (pp. 247-252). Menlo Park, CA: The AAAI Press.

Rus, V., McCarthy, P. M., Lintean, M. C., Graesser, A. C., & McNamara, D. S. (2007). Assessing student self-explanations in an intelligent tutoring system. In D. S. McNamara, & G. Trafton (Ed.), Proceedings of the 29th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.

Rus, V., Ravi, S., Lintean, M., & McCarthy, P. M. (2007). Unsupervised Method for Parsing Coordinated Base Noun Phrases. In A. F. Gelbukh (Ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 8th International Conference, CICLing 2007. Mexico City, Mexico.