Presentations
(Katja Wiemer-Hastings)

Wiemer-Hastings, K. (2001).

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Wiemer-Hastings, P. (2001).

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Cooper, E. (2001).

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (2000).  Contextually representing abstract concepts with abstract structures.  Poster presented at the 22^nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, PA, August 13-15.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (2000). Verb-based classification of abstract concepts. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyons, France, July 19-21.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Rajan, S., Graesser, A.C., Kreuz, R.J., & Karnavat, A. (2000).  DP--A Detector for Presuppositions in Survey Questions.  Paper to be presented at the Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (ANLP-2000), Seattle, Washington, April 29 - May 3.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (2000, January). Abstract concepts hinge on verbs: Predicting abstract concept similarity with verb co-occurrence.  Paper presented at the 11th Annual Winter Conference on Discourse, Text, & Cognition, Jackson, WY.

Graesser, A.C., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Harter, D., Person, N., & Kreuz, R.J. (November, 1999). Latent Semantic Analysis can reliably evaluate student contributions in AutoTutor. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Graesser, A.C., Kreuz, R.J., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Wiemer-Hastings, K. (1999, November). QUEST Questionnaire Evaluation Aid (QQEA): A tool for survey methodologists.  In A.C. Graesser & C. Burgess (Chairs), Cognitively motivated computerized approaches to survey research. Symposium conducted at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Kreuz, R.J., & Graesser, A.C. (1999, November).  A comparison of question critiques provided by the QUEST Questionnaire Evaluation Aid (QQEA) and human raters.  In A.C. Graesser & C. Burgess (Chairs), Cognitively motivated computerized approaches to survey research. Symposium conducted at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., and Graesser, A.C. (1999, August).  Assessing student contributions in a simulated human tutor with Latent Semantic Analysis. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., Graesser, A.C.,  & Doyle, C. (1999, August). How often is often?  Effects of context on the interpretation of frequency adverbs.  Paper presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Vancouver, CA, August 1999.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., and Graesser, A.C. (1999, July). Improving an intelligent tutor's comprehension of students with Latent Semantic Analysis. AI in Education '99, Le Mans, France. July 19 - 23, 1999.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1999, July). A neural network analysis of sentence context features: A comparison of abstract versus concrete nouns. Poster presented at the 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Stockholm, Sweden: July 10-16.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1999, July). Abstract concept representation: Intrinsic or contextual? Poster presented at the 8th European Congress of Psychology, Rome, Italy.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., Preuss, M., & Graesser, A.C. (1999, June). Vocabulary learning of abstract and concrete word types: What methods work best?  Poster presented at the Conference of the American Psychological Society, Denver, CO, June 3-6, 1999.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., Graesser, A.C., & Wiemer-Hastings, P. (1999, May). Exploring effective linguistic context with feedforward neural networks.  Poster presented at the Third International Conference of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA, May 26-29.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Wiemer-Hastings, K., and Graesser, A. (1999, May). Approximate natural language understanding for an intelligent tutor. Paper presented at the 12th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium, Orlando, FL.

Wiemer-Hastings, P.M., Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1999, January). Using latent semantic analysis to evaluate tutee contributions. Paper presented at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text & Cognition, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, January 23-27, 1999.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Graesser, A. C. (1998, November).  The more, the better?  The effect of the number of input variables on generalization in neural networks.  Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Dallas, Texas.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A. C. (1998, August). Contextual representation of abstract nouns: A neural network approach. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Graesser, A. C., & Wiemer-Hastings, K. (1998, August).  Inferring the meaning of verbs from context.  Poster presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Anwar, A. (1998, July). Tests of latent semantic analysis in the domain of computer literacy.  Paper presented as part of symposium at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Madison, Wisconsin.

Wiemer-Hastings, K. (1997, November).  A neural network that identifies abstract nouns on the basis of linguistic context information. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society of Computers in Psychology, Philadelphia.

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Graesser, A.C., & Wiemer-Hastings, K. (1997, August).  Symbolic, statistical, and human verb acquisition. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stanford, CA.

Wiemer-Hastings, K., & Graesser, A.C. (1997, August). Interconcept organization of abstract nouns, concrete nouns, and verbs: Hierarchical versus matrix representation. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stanford, CA.

Wiemer-Hastings, K. (1997, July).  Reactions and potatoes don’t mix: The semantic interconcept organization of abstract nouns, verbs, and concrete nouns. Paper presented at the 7th European Congress of Psychology, Dublin, Ireland.

Wiemer, K., & Funke, J. (1995, March). Risks of computer-supported disaster management. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ROHMI project (Robust Design of Human - Machine Interaction), Delft, NL.