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Rebecca Passonneau

Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Computer Science and Engineering
  • Computer Science and Engineering
  • Natural Language Processing Lab

W318 Westgate Building

rjp49@psu.edu

814-865-9233

Personal or Departmental Website

Research Areas:

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

 
 

 

Education

  • BA, Linguistics, University of Chicago, 1974
  • MA, Linguistics, University of Chicago, 1976
  • Ph D, Linguistics, University of Chicago, 1985

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Rebecca Passonneau, Ananya Poddar, Gaurav Gite, Alisa Krivokapic, Dolores Pe andin, , 2018, "Wise Crowd Content Assessment and Educational Rubrics", International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 8, (1), pp. 27

Conference Proceedings

  • Zhaohui Li, Yajur Tomar and Rebecca Passonneau, 2021, "A Semantic Feature-Wise Transformation Relation Network for Automatic Short Answer Grading"
  • Yanjun Gao, Ting-Hao Huang, Rebecca J Passonn andau, , 2021, "ABCD: A Graph Framework to Convert Complex Sentences to a Covering Set of Simple Sentences", Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Maryam Zare, Ali Ayub, Aishan Liu, Sweekar Sudhakara, Alan Wagner and Rebecca J Passonneau, 2020, "Dialogue Policies for Learning Board Games through Multimodal Communication", Association for Computational Linguistics, United States, pp. 8
  • Rebecca Passonneau, Yanjun Gao, Alex Driban, Brennan McManus, Elena Musi, Patricia Davies and Smaranda Muresan, 2019, "Rubric Reliability and Annotation of Content and Argument in Source-Based Argument Essays", Association for Computational Lingusitics, pp. pages 507-518
  • Rebecca Passonneau, Maryam Zare, Ali Ayub and Alan Wagner, 2019, "A Robot that Uses Dialog Management to Learn from Demonstrations.", Association for Computing Machinery, Article number 78
  • Yanjun Gao, Patricia Davies and Rebecca Passonneau, 2018, "Automated Content Analysis: A Case Study of Computer Science Student Summaries"
  • Kyriaki Zafeiroudi, Leah Eckman and Rebecca Passonneau, 2018, "Testing a Knowledge Inquiry System on Question Answering Tasks"
  • Kyriaki Zafeiroudi and Rebecca Passonneau, 2018, "Knowledge Inquiry for Information Foraging"
  • Yanjun Gao, Andrew Warner and Rebecca Passonneau, 2018, "PyrEval: An Automated Method for Summary Content Analysis"
  • Cheng Liang, Xiao Yang, Neisarg Dave, Drew Wham, Bart Pursel and Rebecca Passonneau, 2017, "Distractor Generation with Generative Adversarial Nets for Automatically Creating Fill-in-the-blank Questions"
  • Qian Yang, Rebecca Passonneau and Gerard de Melo, 2016, "PEAK: Pyramid Evaluation via Automated Knowledge Extraction"

Other

  • Rebecca Passonneau, Danielle MacNamara, Smaranda Muresan and Dolores Perin, 2017, "Special Issue on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Reading and Writing Integrated with Disciplinary Education, Part 1", International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 27, (4), pp. 154
  • Rebecca Passonneau, Danielle MacNamara, Smaranda Muresan and Dolores Perin, 2017, "Special Issue on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Reading and Writing Integrated with Disciplinary Education, Part 2", International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 28, (1), pp. 137

Research Projects

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About

The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was created in the spring of 2015 to allow greater access to courses offered by both departments for undergraduate and graduate students in exciting collaborative research fields.

We offer B.S. degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering and data science and graduate degrees (master's degrees and Ph.D.'s) in electrical engineering and computer science and engineering. EECS focuses on the convergence of technologies and disciplines to meet today’s industrial demands.

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