A & A* Conferences

Masala, M., Ilie-Ablachim, D., Dima, A., Corlatescu, D., Zavelca, M.-A., Olaru, O., Terian, S.-M., Terian, A., Leordeanu, M., Velicu, H., Popescu, M., Dascalu, M., & Rebedea, T..
“Vorbești Românește?” A Recipe to Train Powerful Romanian LLMs with English Instructions.
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EMNLP 2024, Miami, USA Cosma, A., Ruseti, S., Dascalu, M., & Caragea, C.
How Hard is this Test Set? NLI Characterization by Exploiting Training Dynamics.
In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2024, Miami, USA Dutulescu, A., Ruseti, S., Iorga, D., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.
Beyond the Obvious Multi-Choice Options: Introducing a Toolkit for Distractor Generation Enhanced with NLI Filtering.
In 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2024, Recife, Brazil Smadu, R.-A., Zaharia, G.-E., Avram, A.-M., Cercel, D.-C., Dascalu, M., & Pop, F.
TA-DA: topic-aware domain adaptation for scientific keyphrase identification and classification
Best Student Paper: In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2023, Washington DC, USA Nicula, B., Panaite, M., Arner, T., Balyan, R., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.
Automated Assessment of Comprehension Strategies from Self-explanations Using Transformers and Multi-task Learning.
In 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2023, Tokyo, Japan Morris, W., Crossley, S. A., Holmes, L., Ou, C., McNamara, D. S., & Dascalu, M.
Using Large Language Models to Provide Formative Feedback in Intelligent Textbooks.
In 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2023, Tokio, Japan Zaharia, G.-E., Smadu, R.-A., Cercel, D.-C., & Dascalu, M.
Domain Adaptation in Multilingual and Multi-Domain Monolingual Settings for Complex Word Identification.
In 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2022, Dublin, Ireland Skalicky, S., Bell, N. D., Dascalu, M., & Crossley, S. A.
“A fork is a food stabber”: Linguistic creativity in English L1 and L2 speakers.
In 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2022, Toronto, Canada Botarleanu, R., Dascalu, M., Allen, L. K., Crossley, S. A., & McNamara, D. S.
Multitask Summary Scoring with Longformers.
In 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2022, Durham, UK Ruseti, S., Dascalu, M.-D., Corlatescu, D.-G., Dascalu, M., Trausan-Matu, S., & McNamara, D. S.
Exploring Dialogism using Language Models.
In 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2021, Utrech, Netherlands Masala, M., Ruseti, S., Dascalu, M., & Dobre, C.
Extracting and Clustering Main Ideas from Student Feedback using Language Models.
In 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2021, Utrech, Netherlands Corlatescu, D.-G., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.
Automated Model of Comprehension v2.0.
In 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2021, Utrech, Netherlands Botarleanu, R.-M., Dascalu, M., Watanabe, M., McNamara, D. S., & Crossley, S. A.
Multilingual Age of Exposure.
In 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2021, Utrech, Netherlands Nicula, B., Perret, C. A., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.
Extended Multi-document Cohesion Network Analysis Centered on Comprehension Prediction.
In 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2020, Online Neagu, L.-M., Rigaud, E., Travadel, S., Dascalu, M., & Rughinis, R.-V.
Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Psychomotor Training – A Systematic Literature Review.
In 16h International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2020, Online Masala, M., Ruseti, S., & Dascalu, M.
RoBERT – A Romanian BERT Model.
In 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Online Dascalu, M.-D., Ruseti, S., Dascalu, M., McNamara, D. S., & Trausan-Matu, S.
Multi-Document Cohesion Network Analysis: Visualizing Intratextual and Intertextual Links.
In 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2020, Online Dascalu, M.-D., Dascalu, M., Ruseti, S., Carabas, M., Trausan-Matu, S., & McNamara, D. S.
Cohesion Network Analysis: Predicting Course Grades and Generating Sociograms for a Romanian Moodle Course.
Best Paper Award: In 16h International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2020, Online Botarleanu, R.-M., Dascalu, M., Crossley, S. A., & McNamara, D. S.
Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Automated Text Simplification.
In 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2020, Online

Q1 Journals

Corlatescu, D., Watanabe, M., Ruseti, S., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.
The Automated Model of Comprehension version 4.0 – Validation Studies and Integration of ChatGPT.
Computers in Human Behavior, CHB 2024 Morris, W., Crossley, S. A., Holmes, L., Ou, C., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.
Formative Feedback on Student-Authored Summaries in Intelligent Textbooks using Large Language Models.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, IJAIED 2024 Ruseti, S., Paraschiv, I., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.
Automated Pipeline for Multi-lingual Automated Essay Scoring with ReaderBench.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, IJAIED 2024 Scheibenzuber, C., Neagu, L.-M., Ruseti, S., Artmann, B., Bartsch, C., Kubik, M., Dascalu, M., Trausan-Matu, S., & Nistor, N.
Dialog in the echo chamber: Fake news framing predicts emotion, argumentation and dialogic social knowledge building in subsequent online discussions.
Computers in Human Behavior, CHB 2023 Botarleanu, R.-M., Watanabe, M., Dascalu, M., Crossley, S. A., & McNamara, D. S.
Multilingual Age of Exposure 2.0.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, IJAIED 2023 Botarleanu, R.-M., Dascalu, M., Watanabe, M., Crossley, S. A., & McNamara, D. S.
Age of Exposure 2.0: Estimating Word Complexity using Iterative Models of Word Embeddings.
Behavior Research Methods, BRM 2022 Dascalu, M.-D., Ruseti, S., Dascalu, M., McNamara, D. S., Carabas, M., Rebedea, T., & Trausan-Matu, S.
Before and during COVID-19: A Cohesion Network Analysis of Students’ Online Participation in Moodle Courses.
Computers in Human Behavior, CHB 2021 Nistor, N., Dascalu, M., Tarnai, C., & Trausan-Matu, S.
Predicting newcomer integration in online learning communities: Automated dialog assessment in blogger communities.
Computers in Human Behavior, CHB 2020 Westera, W., Prada, R., Mascarenhas, S., Santos, P. A., Dias, J., Guimarães, M., Georgiadis, K., Nyamsuren, E., Bahreini, K., Yumak, Z., Christyowidiasmoro, C., Dascalu, M., Gutu-Robu, G., & Ruseti, S.
Artificial intelligence moving serious gaming: presenting reusable game AI components.
Education and Information Technologies, EIT 2020