| Selected Publications Best, R.M., Floyd, R.G., & McNamara, D.S. (2004, April). Understanding the fourth-grade slump: Comprehension difficulties as a function of reader aptitudes and text genre. Paper presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Bruss, M., Albers, M., & McNamara, D. S. (2004). Changes in scientific articles over two hundred years: A Coh-Metrix analysis. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Computer Documentation. Cai, Z., McNamara, D. S., Louwerse, M., Hu, X., Rowe, M., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). NLS: Non-latent similarity algorithm. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner, T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 180-185). Mahwah , NJ : Erlbaum. Christian F. Hempelmann, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, and Danielle S. McNamara. "Evaluating State-of-the-Art Treebank-style Parsers for Coh-Metrix and Other Learning Technology Environments." with Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics at the ACL conference 2005. Ann Arbor, MI. 25-30 June 2005. David Dufty, Christian F. Hempelmann, Philip M. McCarthy, Arthur C. Graesser, Zhiquiang Cai, and Danielle S. McNamara. (2005) "Using LSA to Automatically Identify Givenness and Newness of Noun Phrases in Written Discourse." Proceedings of the XXVII Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy. 21 - 23 July, 2005. [PDF] Dufty, D.F., Graesser, A. C., & Mathews, M. (2005, in press). New directions in eLearning technologies: Deployment of technology based adaptive learning Tools for Tomorrow's Power Users. Power Users of ICT International Symposium, Costa Rica, August 2005. [doc] Dufty, D. F., Hempelmann, C. F., Graesser, A. C., Cai, Z., & McNamara, D. S. (2005). An algorithm for detecting causal and intentional information in text. 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Amsterdam. Dufty, D. F., McNamara, D., Louwerse, M., Cai, Z., Graesser, A. C. (2004). Automated evaluation of aspects of document quality. Proceedings of the 22nd annual international conference on Documentation. [pdf] Graesser, A. C., McNamara, D. S., Louwerse, M., & Cai, Z. (2004). Coh-Metrix: Analysis of text on cohesion and language. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36 , 193-202. Graesser, A.C., McNamara, D.S., Louwerse, M.M., & Cai, Z. (2003, November). Coh-Metrix: Analysis of text on cohesion and language. Paper presented at the 33rd annual meeting for the Society for Computers in Psychology, Vancouver, Canada. Graesser, A. C., McNamara, D. S., & Louwerse, M. M. (2003). What do readers need to learn in order to process coherence relations in narrative and expository text. In A. P. Sweet and C. E. Snow (Eds.), Rethinking reading comprehension (pp.82-98). New York : Guilford Publications. Graesser, A., Louwerse, M., McNamara, D., Olney, A., Cai, Z., & Mitchell, H. (in press). Inference generation and cohesion in the construction of situation models: Some connections with computational linguistics. In F. Schmalhofer & C. A. Perfetti (Eds.), Higher level language processes in the brain: Inference and comprehension processes. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Hu, X., Cai, Z., Franceschetti, D., Penumatsa, P., Graesser, A.C., Louwerse, M.M., McNamara, D.S., & the TRG (2003). LSA: The first dimension and dimensional weighting. In R. Alterman and D. Hirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 587-592). Boston, MA: Cognitive Science Society. Hu, X., Cai, Z., Wiemer-Hasting, P., Graesser, A., & McNamara, D. S. (in press). Strengths, limitations, and extensions of LSA. In T. Landauer, D.S., McNamara, S. Dennis, & W. Kintsch (Eds.), LSA: A Road to Meaning. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Louwerse, M. M., McCarthy, P. M., McNamara, D. S., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). Variation in language and cohesion across written and spoken registers. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner, T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 843-848). Mahwah , NJ : Erlbaum. McNamara, D.S. & the CSEP lab (2003). Coh-Metrix: Automated cohesion and coherence scores to predict text readability and facilitate comprehension. Annual project report submitted to the Institute of Education Sciences. McNamara, D. S., Cai, Z., & Louwerse, M. M. (in press). Comparing latent and non-latent measures of cohesion. In T. Landauer, D.S., McNamara, S. Dennis, & W. Kintsch (Eds.), LSA: A Road to Meaning. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. McNamara, D. S. (2001). Reading both high and low coherence texts: Effects of text sequence and prior knowledge. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55, 51-62. McNamara, D. S., Floyd, R. G., Best, R., & Louwerse, M. (2004). World knowledge driving young readers' comprehension difficulties. In Y. B. Yasmin, W. A., Sandoval, N. Enyedy, A. S. Nixon, F. Herrera (Eds.), Proceedings of the sixth international conference of the learning sciences: Embracing diversity in the learning sciences (pp. 326-333). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. McNamara, D. S., Kintsch, E., Songer, N. B., & Kintsch, W. (1996). Are good texts always better? Text coherence, background knowledge, and levels of understanding in learning from text. Cognition and Instruction, 14, 1-43. McNamara, D.S., & Kintsch, W. (1996). Learning from text: Effects of prior knowledge and text coherence. Discourse Processes, 22, 247-287. McNamara, D. S., Ozuru, Y., Louwerse, M. M., & Graesser, A. (2005, January). Coh-Metrix: An automated measure of cohesion. Paper presentation at the 16th annual Winter Text Conference, Jackson, WY. McNamara, D.S., (2004, January). Coh-Metrix: Automated analysis of text cohesion to match readers to texts. Invited paper presented at IES Reading Research Program Principal Investigator Conference. Washington, D.C. McNamara, D.S., Graesser, A., & Louwerse, M. (2004, January). Coh-Metrix: Automated analysis of text cohesion to match readers to texts. Invited paper presented at IES Reading Research Program Principal Investigator Conference. Washington, D.C. McNamara, D.S., Louwerse, M.M., Floyd, R., & Graesser, A. (2004, January). Coh-Metrix: Automated analysis of text cohesion to match readers to texts. Invited presentation at the annual IES Reading Research Program Principal Investigator Conference. Washington, D.C. McNamara, D.S. (2005, January). Coh-Metrix: Measuring text difficulty to improve text comprehension. Invited presentation at the National Board for Education Sciences Inaugural Meeting, Washington, D.C. |
