Reva Freedman
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Northern IllinoisUniversity
rfreedman@niu.edu
Coordinates
Mailing address:
Department of Computer Science
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Note: No street address is needed, but if
you can't convince your mailroom of that, use
the address of our mailroom, 1425 W. Lincoln Hwy.
Physical address:
Psychology/Computer Science 554
Phone:
Phone: The university is too cheap to provide phones to the faculty
Fax: (815) 753-0342 (let me know you've sent one)
Email preferred.
Teaching (most recent instance of each course)
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CS240 Computer Programming in C++
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CS241 Intermediate Programming
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CS330 Unix and Network Programming
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CS340 Data Stuctures and Algorithm Analysis
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CS463 Computer Architecture and Systems Organization
(in-person section only)
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CS480 Operating Systems Principles
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ILAS 261 Language, Mind and
Thought: Introduction to Cognitive Science
Research
Interests:
- AI and computational linguistics:
- Text generation
- Knowledge representation for tutoring and causal reasoning
- All kinds of declarative formalisms (logic programming
constraint-based programming, etc.)
- Dialogue annotation and analysis
- Linguistics:
- Romance linguistics
- Semitic linguistics
Current research projects:
Section under construction.
Previous research projects:
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Circle
Tutorial planning and text generation for the Atlas
system, an
integrated planning and execution system that will allow natural
language dialogues to become an integral part of an intelligent
tutoring system. Atlas is a product of Circle, the Center for
Interdisciplinary Research on Constructive Learning Environments,
a National Science Foundation-funded collaboration
between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon
University. Its goal is to develop a new generation of intelligent
tutoring systems which foster the same kind of learning as one-on-one
human tutoring. Tutoring systems involved with Circle include
Andes at Pitt and the Advanced Computer Tutoring Project at CMU.
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CIRCSIM-Tutor is an intelligent tutoring system that
helps medical students understand blood pressure regulation. The latest
version (v. 3) generates dialogues with sophisticated strategies for
tutoring and dialogue control based on an empirical analysis of
transcripts of human tutoring sessions. This reseach was supported by
the Office of Naval Research.
Other miscellaneous projects:
Getting Microsoft out of my life.
Publications
2001
- Freedman, Reva. 2001.
Adaptive Processing in a Medical Intelligent Tutoring System.
Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems, NAACL 2001, Pittsburgh.
.pdf
- Freedman, Reva. 2001.
An Approach to Increasing Programming Efficiency in Plan-Based
Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on AI in
Education (AI-ED 2001), San Antonio.
(8 1/2 x 11 version)
.pdf
2000
- Freedman, Reva. 2000.
Links: What is an
Intelligent Tutoring System?
Intelligence 11(3):
15-16.
Postscript
.pdf
- Freedman, Reva. 2000.
A Reactive Approach to
Dialogue Planning in an Intelligent User Interface.
Workshop
on Using Plans in Intelligent User Interfaces, International Conference
on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2000), New Orleans.
- Freedman, Reva. 2000.
Plan-Based Dialogue
Management in a Physics Tutor.
Proceedings of the Sixth
Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (ANLP 2000),
Seattle.
.pdf
- Freedman, Reva. 2000.
Using a Reactive Planner as
the Basis for a Dialogue Agent.
Proceedings of the
Thirteenth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS
2000), Orlando.
.pdf
For further details
about programming in APE, see the
technical note below.
- Freedman, Reva, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Michael A.
Ringenberg and Kurt VanLehn. 2000.
ITS Tools for Natural
Language Dialogue: A Domain-Independent Parser and Planner.
In Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Fifth International Conference (ITS
2000), Montreal.
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer
Science.
Postscript
.ps
or
.pdf
- Kim, Jung Hee, Michael Glass, Reva Freedman and Martha
W. Evens. 2000.
Learning the Use of Discourse Markers in
Tutorial Dialogue for an Intelligent Tutoring System.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society, Philadelphia.
.pdf
- Rosé, Carolyn, Reva Freedman, Pamela Jordan,
Michael Ringenberg, Antonio Roque, Kay Schulze, Robert Shelby,
Stephanie Siler, Donald Treacy, Kurt VanLehn, Anders Weinstein, and
Mary Wintersgill. 2000.
Conceptual Tutoring in
Atlas-Andes.
In Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial
Applications: Papers from the 2000 Fall Symposium (North Falmouth, MA),
demo session. AAAI Technical Report FS-00-01.
- VanLehn, Kurt, Reva Freedman, Pamela Jordan, Charles
Murray, Remus Osan, Michael Ringenberg, Carolyn Rosé, Kay
Schulze, Robert Shelby, Donald Treacy, Anders Weinstein, and Mary
Wintersgill. 2000.
Fading and Deepening: The Next Steps for
Andes and Other Model-Tracing Tutors.
In Intelligent
Tutoring Systems: Fifth International Conference (ITS 2000),
Montreal.
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer
Science.
1999
- Freedman, Reva. 1999.
Atlas: A Plan Manager for
Mixed-Initiative, Multimodal Dialogue.
AAAI-99 Workshop on
Mixed-Initiative Intelligence, Orlando.
.pdf
- Zhou, Yujian, Reva Freedman, Michael Glass, Joel A.
Michael, Allen A. Rovick, and Martha W. Evens. 1999.
Delivering
Hints in a Dialogue-Based Intelligent Tutoring System.
Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '99),
Orlando.
.pdf
- Zhou, Yujian, Reva Freedman, Michael Glass, Joel A.
Michael, Allen A. Rovick, and Martha W. Evens. 1999.
What Should
the Tutor Do When the Student Cannot Answer a Question?
Proceedings of the 12th Florida Artificial Intelligence Symposium
(FLAIRS '99), Orlando.
.pdf
1998
- Freedman, Reva, Stefan Brandle, Michael Glass, Jung Hee
Kim, Yujian Zhou and Martha W. Evens. 1998.
Content Planning as
the Basis for an Intelligent Tutoring System.
Proceedings of
the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation
(INLG-9), Niagara on the Lake, Canada, demo session.
.pdf
- Freedman, Reva, Yujian Zhou, Michael Glass, Jung Hee Kim
and Martha W. Evens. 1998.
Using Rule Induction to Assist in
Rule Construction for a Natural-Language Based Intelligent Tutoring
System.
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society, Madison.
Postscript
.ps
or
.pdf
- Freedman, Reva, Yujian Zhou, Jung Hee Kim, Michael Glass
and Martha W. Evens. 1998.
SGML-Based Markup as a Step toward
Improving Knowledge Acquisition for Text Generation.
AAAI
1998 Spring Symposium: Applying Machine Learning to Discourse
Processing, Stanford.
- Kim, Jung Hee, Reva Freedman and Martha W. Evens.
1998.
Relationship between Tutorial Goals and Sentence Structure
in a Corpus of Tutoring Transcripts.
Proceedings of the
Ninth Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference
(MAICS '98), Dayton.
Postscript
.ps
or
.pdf
- Kim, Jung Hee, Reva Freedman, and Martha W. Evens.
1998.
Responding to Unexpected Student Utterances in
CIRCSIM-Tutor v. 3: Analysis of Transcripts.
Proceedings of the Eleventh Florida AI Research Symposium (FLAIRS
'98), Sanibel Island, FL.
Postscript
.ps
or
.pdf
1997
- Freedman, Reva. 1997.
Degrees of Mixed-Initiative
Interaction in an Intelligent Tutoring System.
AAAI 1997
Spring Symposium: Computational Models for Mixed Initiative
Interaction, Stanford.
Postscript
.ps
or
.pdf
- Freedman, Reva. 1997.
Representing Communicative
Action in a Dialogue-Based Intelligent Tutoring System.
AAAI
1997 Fall Symposium: Communicative Action in Humans and Machines,
Boston.
Postscript
.ps
or
.pdf
- Freedman, Reva and Martha W. Evens. 1997.
The Use
of Multiple Knowledge Types in an Intelligent Tutoring System.
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society, Stanford, poster session.
1996
- Freedman, Reva. 1996.
Using a Text Planner to
Model the Behavior of Human Tutors in an ITS.
In M. Gasser,
ed., Online Proceedings of the Seventh Midwest Artificial Intelligence
and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS '96), Bloomington, IN.
Postscript
.ps. This paper is also available in the
online
proceedings as
html.
- Freedman, Reva. 1996.
Using Tutoring Patterns to
Generate More Cohesive Text in an Intelligent Tutoring System.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Systems
(ICLS '96), Evanston, IL.
Postscript
.ps
or
.pdf
- Freedman, Reva and Martha W. Evens. 1996.
Generating and Revising Hierarchical Multi-turn Text Plans in an
ITS.
In C. Frasson, G. Gauthier and A. Lesgold, eds.
Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Third International Conference (ITS '96),
Montreal. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no.
1086.
Postscript
.ps or
.pdf
- Freedman, Reva and Martha W. Evens. 1996.
Realistic Limitations in Natural Language Processing for an
Intelligent Tutoring System.
Proceedings of the Eighteenth
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, La Jolla, poster
session.
1995
- Freedman, Reva. 1995.
Using Pedagogical Knowledge
to Structure Text Generation in an Intelligent Tutoring System.
Proceedings of the 1995 Midwest Artificial Intelligence and
Cognitive Science Society Conference (MAICS-95), Carbondale,
IL.
Unpublished documents
Education
- Ph.D., Northwestern University, Department of EECS.
Interaction of Discourse Planning, Instructional Planning and
Dialogue Management in an Interactive Tutoring System.
pdf
- M. A., Northwestern University, Department of EECS.
A
Logic-Based Transformation System for using Data Flow Diagrams in
Software System Design.
- B. A., University of Chicago, mathematics.
Last updated Mon. 10/2/2023