People

Litman, Diane J.

Research Scientist, Project Director

PhD, University of Rochester

Contact:
741 LRDC
412-624-1261
412-624-9149

Summary:
I am Professor of Computer Science, and a Research Scientist with the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), at the University of Pittsburgh. I moved here from the Garden State (aka New Jersey), where from 1985-2001 I was a member of the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department, AT&T Labs - Research (formerly Bell Laboratories); From 1990-1992, I was also an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.

I received my PhD and MS in Computer Science from the University of Rochester, and my AB in Mathematics and Computer Science from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Research Interests: My research is in the area of artificial intelligence, and includes contributions in the areas of computational linguistics, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language learning, plan recognition, spoken language, user modeling, and artificial intelligence and education. My work has included both fundamental research, and applied research resulting in technology transfer and patents.

Projects/Labs

Publications

Hua Ai, Joel R. Tetreault, and Diane J. Litman. Comparing User Simulation Models for Dialog Strategy Learning. Proceedings Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April. (Abstract-pdf)
Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane J. Litman. Analyzing Dependencies Between Student Certainness States and Tutor Responses in a Spoken Dialogue Corpus. Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue, Laila Dybkjaer and Wolfgang Minker (eds.), Springer (to appear).
Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Amruta Purandare, Mihai Rotaru, and Joel Tetreault. Comparing Linguistic Features for Modeling Learning in Computer Dialogue Tutoring. Proceedings 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) Los Angeles, CA, July. (Abstract-pdf)
Kate Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, and Diane J. Litman. The Relative Impact of Student Affect on Performance Models in a Spoken Dialogue Tutoring System. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (Special Issue on Affective Modeling and Adaptation) (to appear).
Kate Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman and Joel Tetreault, Exploring Affect-Context Dependencies for Adaptive System Development. Proceedings Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April. (Abstract-pdf)
Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. The Utility of a Graphical Representation of Discourse Structure in Spoken Dialogue Systems. Proceedings 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, June.
Joel R. Tetreault, Dan Bohus, and Diane J. Litman. Estimating the Reliability of MDP Policies: A Confidence Interval Approach. Proceedings Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April. (Abstract-pdf)
Arthur Ward and Diane Litman. Dialog Convergence and Learning. Proceedings 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Los Angeles, CA, July. (Abstract-pdf)
Hua Ai, Diane J. Litman, Kate Forbes-Riley, Mihai Rotaru, Joel Tetreault, and Amruta Purandare. Using System and User Performance Features to Improve Emotion Detection in Spoken Tutoring Dialogs. Proceedings of Interspeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA. (Abstract-pdf)
Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane J. Litman. Modelling User Satisfaction and Student Learning in a Spoken Dialogue Tutoring System with Generic, Tutoring, and User Affect Parameters. Proceedings Human Language Technology Conference/North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT-NAACL), New York, NY. (Abstract-pdf)
Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Scott Silliman, and Joel Tetreault. Comparing Synthesized versus Pre-recorded Tutor Speech in an Intelligent Tutoring Spoken Dialogue System. Proceeding 19th International FLAIRS (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) Conference, Melbourne Beach, FL. (Abstract-pdf)
Rohit Kumar, Carolyn P. Rose, Diane J. Litman. Identification of Confusion and Surprise in Spoken Dialog using Prosodic Features. Proceedings International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006), Pittsburgh, PA. (Abstract-pdf)
Diane Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley. Correlations betweeen Dialogue Acts and Learning in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Natural Language Engineering, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 161-176. (Abstract-pdf)
Diane J. Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley. Recognizing Student Emotions and Attitudes on the Basis of Utterances in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues with both Human and Computer Tutors. Speech Communication, Volume 48, Issue 5, May 2006, Pages 559-590. (Abstract-html)
Diane Litman, Julia Hirschberg, and Marc Swerts. Characterizing and Predicting Corrections in Spoken Dialogue Systems. Computational Linguistics, Volume 32, Number 3, September 2006, Pages 417-438. (Abstract-pdf)
Diane J. Litman, Carolyn P. Rose, Kate Forbes-Riley, Kurt VanLehn, Dumisizwe Bhembe, and Scott Silliman. Spoken Versus Typed Human and Computer Dialogue Tutoring. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Volume 16, Pages 145-170. (Abstract-pdf)
Greg Nicholas, Mihai Rotaru, and Diane J. Litman. Exploiting Word-level Features for Emotion Prediction. Proceedings of IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT). Aruba. (Abstract-pdf)
Amruta Purandare and Diane Litman. Humor: Prosody Analysis and Automatic Recognition for FRIENDS. Proceedings Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Sydney, Australia. (Abstract-pdf)
Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. Dependencies between Student State and Speech Recognition Problems in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (Coling/ACL), Sydney, Australia. (Abstract-pdf)
Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. Exploiting Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Performance Analysis, Proceedings Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Sydney, Australia. (Abstract-pdf)
Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. Discourse Structure and Speech Recognition Problems, Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA. (Abstract-pdf)
Swapna Somasundaran, Janyce Wiebe, Paul Hoffmann and Diane Litman. Manual Annotation of Opinion Categories in Meetings. Proceedings of the ACL/Coling Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora, Sydney, Australia. (Abstract-pdf)
Joel Tetreault and Diane Litman. Using Reinforcement Learning to Build a Better Model of Dialogue State. Proceedings 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Trento, Italy. (Abstract-pdf)
Joel R. Tetreault and Diane J. Litman. Comparing the Utility of State Features in Spoken Dialogue Using Reinforcement Learning. Proceedings Human Language TechnologyConference/North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT-NAACL), New York, NY. (Abstract-pdf)
Arthur Ward and Diane Litman. Cohesion and Learning in a Tutorial Spoken Dialog System. Proceeding 19th International FLAIRS (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) Conference, Melbourne Beach, FL. (Abstract-pdf)
Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane Litman. Correlating Student Acoustic-Prosodic Profiles with Student Learning in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech-2005/Eurospeech), Lisbon, Portugal. (Abstract-pdf)
Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane J. Litman. Using Bigrams to Identify Relationships Between Student Certainness States and Tutor Responses in a Spoken Dialogue Corpus. Proceedings of 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Lisbon, Portugal. (Abstract-pdf)
Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, Alison Huettner and Arthur Ward. Dialogue-Learning Correlations in Spoken Dialogue Tutoring. Proceedings 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Education (AIED), Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Abstract-pdf)
Diane Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley. Speech Recognition Performance and Learning in Spoken Dialogue Tutoring. Proceedings 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech-2005/Eurospeech), Lisbon, Portugal. (Abstract-pdf)
Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. Improving Question Answering for Reading Comprehension Tests by Combining Multiple Systems. Proceedings of the AAAI 2005 Workshop on Question Answering in Restricted Domains, Pittsburgh, PA. (Abstract-pdf)
Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. Using Word-level Pitch Features to Better Predict Student Emotions during Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech-2005/Eurospeech), Lisbon, Portugal. (Abstract-pdf)
Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman, and Katherine Forbes-Riley. Interactions between Speech Recognition Problems and User Emotions. Proceedings 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech-2005/Eurospeech), Lisbon, Portugal. (Abstract-pdf)
Arthur Ward and Diane Litman. Predicting Learning in Tutoring with the Landscape Model of Memory. Proceedings of the ACL Second Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Abstract-pdf)
Claire Cardie, Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson, and Diane Litman. 2004. Low Level Annotations and Summary Representations of Opinions for Multi-Perspective Question Answering. In New Directions in Question Answering, Mark Maybury, editor. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, California.
Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane Litman. 2004. Predicting Emotion in Spoken Dialogue from Multiple Knowledge Sources. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference: 4th Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL), Boston, MA. (Abstract-pdf)
Julia Hirschberg, Diane Litman, and Marc Swerts. Prosodic and Other Cues to Speech Recognition Failures. Speech Communication, Volume 43, Issues 1-2, June 2004, Pages 155-175.
Diane Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley. 2004. Annotating Student Emotional States in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings of 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Boston, MA. (Abstract-pdf)
Diane J. Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley. 2004. Predict ing Student Emotions in Computer-Human Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Barcelon, Spain. (Abstract-pdf)
Diane J. Litman, Carolyn P. Rose, Kate Forbes-Riley, Kurt VanLehn, Dumisizwe Bhembe, and Scott Silliman. 2004. Spoken Versus Typed Human and Computer Dialogue Tutoring. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Maceio, Brazil. (Abstract-pdf)
Diane Litman and Scott Silliman. 2004. ITSPOKE: An Intelligent Tutoring Spoken Dialogue System. Companion Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference: 4th Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL), Boston, MA. (Abstract-pdf)
Beatriz Maeireizo, Diane Litman and Rebecca Hwa. 2004. Co-training for Predicting Emotions with Spoken Dialogue Data. Companion Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain.
Ves Stoyanov, Claire Cardie, Diane Litman, and Janyce Wiebe. 2004. Evaluating an Opinion Annotation Scheme Using a New Multi-Perspective Question and Answer Corpus. Working Notes - Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text: Theories and Applications (AAAI Spring Symposium Series), Stanford, CA. (Abstract-pdf)
Claire Cardie, Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson and Diane Litman. 2003. Combining Low-Level and Summary Representations of Opinions for Multi-Perspective Question Answering. Working Notes -New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI Spring Symposium Series), Stanford, CA. (Abstract-pdf)
Diane Litman and Kate Forbes. 2003. Recognizing Emotions from Student Speech in Tutoring Dialogues. Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. (Abstract-pdf)
Diane Litman, Kate Forbes, and Scott Silliman. 2003. Towards Emotion Prediction in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues. Companion Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference: 3rd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL), Edmonton, Canada. (Abstract-pdf)
Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman. 2003. Exceptionality and Natural Language Learning. Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Edmonton, Canada. (Abstract-pdf)
Janyce Wiebe, Eric Breck, Chris Buckley, Claire Cardie, Paul Davis, Bruce Fraser, Diane Litman, David Pierce, Ellen Riloff, Theresa Wilson, David Day, and Mark Maybury. 2003. Recognizing and Organizing Opinions Expressed in the World Press, Working Notes - New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI Spring Symposium Series), Stanford, CA. (Abstract-pdf)

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