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Gregory Aist
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics and Communication Studies, Department of English.
Office/Office Hours
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- 355 Ross: T 5:30-7:00pm, W 10-11:30am
- Skype (Gregory.Aist): Th 10:00-11:00am
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Interests
- Computer-assisted language learning
- Natural language processing
- Computational linguistics
- Spoken dialogue systems
- Vocabulary learning
Selected Publications
- Aist, G.S. Under review. Computer-user-expert (CUE) dialogues: a method to help extend a dialogue system with new capabilities.
- Aist, G.S. and Mostow, J. 2007. Faster, Better Task Choice in a Reading Tutor that Listens. In
Melissa Holland and F. Pete Fisher (Editors), The Path of Speech Language Learning: From Research Toward Practice. Routledge.
- Aist, G.S., Bohus, D., Boven, B., Campana, E., Early, S., and Phan, S. 2004. Initial development of a
voice-activated astronaut assistant for procedural tasks: From need to concept to prototype. Journal of
Interactive Instruction Development 16(3): 32-36.
- Aist, G. 2002. Helping Children Learn Vocabulary during Computer-Assisted Oral Reading.
Educational Technology and Society 5(2).
- Aist, G. 2001. Towards automatic glossarization: automatically constructing and administering
vocabulary assistance factoids and multiple-choice assessment. International Journal of Artificial
Intelligence in Education 12: 212-231.
- Aist, G. 1999. Speech recognition in computer assisted language learning. In K. C. Cameron (ed.),
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL): Media, Design, and Applications. Lisse: Swets &
Zeitlinger.
- Gavalda, M., Zechner, K., and Aist, G. 1997. High performance segmentation of spontaneous
speech using part of speech and trigger word information. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on
Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP), Washington, D.C., U.S.A., April.
Affiliations
Degrees
- Ph.D., Language and Information Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University
- M.S., Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University
