Education

Education is a freely accessible, full-text, peer-reviewed, international journal that seeks out clear and significant contributions that further debate on educational issues. Education is interpreted in a wide manner and includes human development, learning, school education, formal and informal education, vocational education, industry training and lifelong learning. Articles are published from teachers, administrators, professors, graduate students, policy-makers, and education specialists.

Hua Ai

Editorial Board Member of Education

Research Scientist, Georgia Tech, USA

Research Areas

Computer Science (Natural Language Processing, Conversational Interface, Tutoring Systems, Social Networks)

Education

2004-2009Ph.DIntelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh
2004-2006M.ScIntelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh
2000-2004B.ScDepartment of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Experience

2010-presentResearch Scientist, Georgia Tech, College of Interactive Computing
2011-presentResearch Scientist, Georgia Tech, Center for 21st Century Universities
2009-2010Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University
2004-2009Graduate Research Assistant, University of Pittsburgh
2007-2008Research Intern, Bosch Research
2006Summer Intern, Institute of Creative Technologies at University of Southern California

Publications: Journals

[1]  Ai, H. and Litman, D. 2011. Assessing User Simulation for Dialog Systems using Human Judges and Automatic Evaluation Measures. Journal of Natural Language Engineering.
[2]  Ai, H. and Litman, D. 2011. Comparing User Simulation Models for Dialog Strategy Learning. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing.

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]  Ram, A., Ai, H., Ram, P., and Sahay, S. 2011. Open Social Learning Communities. Proceedings of International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS-11).
[2]  Hajarnis, S., Leber, C., Ai, H., Riedl, M., and Ram, A. 2011. A Case Base Planning Approach for Dialogue Generation in Digital Movie Design. Proceedings of ICCBR 2011.
[3]  Sahay, S., Ai, H., and Ram, A. Intentional Analysis of Medical Conversations for Community Engagement. Proceedings of FLAIRS-11 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
[4]  Ai, H., Kumar, K., Nagasunder, A., and Rose, C. 2010. Exploring the Effectiveness of Social Capabilities and Goal Alignment in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. Proceedings of 10th International Conferences on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).
[5]  Ai, H., Sionti, M., Wang, Y.-C., and Rose, C. 2010. Finding Transactive Contributions in Whole Group Classroom Discussions. Proceedings of 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences.
[6]  Kumar, K., Ai, H., Beuth, J., and Rose, C. 2010. Socially-Capable Conversational Tutors can be Effective in Collaborative-Learning Situations. Proceedings of 10th International Conferences on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).
[7]  Ai, H. and Litman, D. 2009. Setting Up User Action Probabilities in User Simulations for Dialog System Developmen. Proceedings 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL).
[8]  Ai, H. and Litman, D. 2008. Assessing Dialog System User Simulation Evaluation Measures Using Human Judges. Proceedings 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL).
[9]  Ai, H. and Litman, D. 2007. Knowledge Consistent User Simulations for Dialog Systems. Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2007).
[10]  Ai, H., Roque, A., Leuski, A., and Traum, D. 2007. Using Information State to Improve Dialogue Move Identification in a Spoken Dialogue System. Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2007).
[11]  Ai, H., Litman, D., Forbes-Riley, K., Rotaru, M., Tetreault, J., and Purandare, A. 2006. Using System and User Performance Features to Improve Emotion Detection in Spoken Tutoring Dialogs. Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006).
[12]  Ai, H. and Weng, F. 2008. User Simulation as Testing for Spoken Dialog Systems. Proceedings of the 9th SIGDial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue.
[13]  Ai, H., Raux, A., Bohus, D., Exkenazi, M., and Litman, D. 2007. Comparing Spoken Dialog Corpora Collected with Recruited Subjects versus Real Users. Proceedings of the 8th SIGDial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue.
[14]  Ai, H., Tetreault, J, and Litman, D. 2007. 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).
[15]  Roque, A., Ai, H., and Traum, D. 2006. Evaluation of an Information State-Based Dialogue Manager. Brandial 2006: The 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue.
[16]  Ai, H. and Litman, D. 2006. Comparing Real-Real, Simulated-Simulated, and Simulated-Real Spoken Dialogue Corpora. Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Statistical and Empirical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems.
[17]  Ai, H.; Harris, T.; and Rose, C. P. 2006. The Effect of Miscommunication Rate on User Response Preferences. Proceedings of CHI 2006.

Publications: Books/Book Chapters

[1]  Sionti, M., Ai, H., Rosé, C. P., and Resnick, L. 2010. A Framework for Analyzing Development of Argumentation through Classroom Discussions. In Niels Pinkwart & Bruce McClaren (Eds.) Educational Technologies for Teaching Argumentation Skills.