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Vasile Rus

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Papers indexed

133

Venues

22

Active years

2000–2026

Best venue rank

A*

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Papers

133 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026AIEDEnhancing Intelligent Tutoring Systems with Instruction-Tuned LLMs: Automated Assessment of Student Code Comprehension.Jeevan Chapagain, Vasile Rus
2026FlAIRSA Study on How Free Use of LLMs Assists Novices with Code Comprehension Tasks.Mahmudul Islam Sajib, Shanti Tamang, Jeevan Chapagain, Vasile Rus
2026FlAIRSEvaluating Logical Structure in Computer Programs Using LLMs.Shanti Tamang, Md Abdul Mazid Adnan, Mahmudul Islam Sajib, Vasile Rus
2026LAKUnderstanding and Modeling Math Strategy Use in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.Abisha Thapa Magar, Asad Uzzaman, Tali Zacks, Stephen Fancsali, Vasile Rus, April Murphy, Ethan Shafran Moltz, Steve Ritter, Deepak Venugopal
2026LRECPersona-Conditioned Generation of Patient Self-Reports from EHRs.Yuexin Wu, Jianming Wei, Vasile Rus
2025AAAIAutomated Assessment of Student Self-Explanation in Code Comprehension Using Pre-Trained Language Models.Jeevan Chapagain, Vasile Rus
2025AIEDAnalyzing Strategies in MATHia with BERT.Abisha Thapa Magar, Stephen E. Fancsali, Vasile Rus, April Murphy, Steven Ritter, Deepak Venugopal
2025CogSciCan We Extend the Reverse Cohesion Effect to Programming Contexts?Rina Miyata Harsch, Jeffrey K. Bye, Vasile Rus, Panayiota Kendeou
2025FlAIRSSelfCode 2.0: An Annotated Corpus of Student and Expert Line-by-Line Explanations of Code Examples for Automated Assessment.Jeevan Chapagain, Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan, Kamil Akhuseyinoglu, Peter Brusilovsky, Vasile Rus
2025LAK"Can A Language Model Represent Math Strategies?": Learning Math Strategies from Big Data using BERT.Abisha Thapa Magar, Anup Shakya, Stephen E. Fancsali, Vasile Rus, April Murphy, Steven Ritter, Deepak Venugopal
2024AIEDIdentifying Gaps in Students' Explanations of Code Using LLMs.Rabin Banjade, Priti Oli, Mahmudul Islam Sajib, Vasile Rus
2024IJCAIAutomated Essay Scoring Using Discourse External Knowledge.Nisrine Ait Khayi, Vasile Rus
2024SACExploring The Effectiveness of Reading vs. Tutoring For Enhancing Code Comprehension For Novices.Priti Oli, Rabin Banjade, Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan, Peter Brusilovsky, Vasile Rus
2023AIEDImproving Code Comprehension Through Scaffolded Self-explanations.Priti Oli, Rabin Banjade, Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan, Jeevan Chapagain, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Peter Brusilovsky, Vasile Rus
2023EDMScalable and Equitable Math Problem Solving Strategy Prediction in Big Educational Data.Anup Shakya, Vasile Rus, Deepak Venugopal
2023FlAIRSSelfCode: An Annotated Corpus and a Model for Automated Assessment of Self-Explanation During Source Code Comprehension.Jeevan Chapagain, Zak Risha, Rabin Banjade, Priti Oli, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Peter Brusilovsky, Vasile Rus
2023ITSAutomated Extraction of Domain Models from Textbook Indexes for Developing Intelligent Tutoring Systems.Rabin Banjade, Priti Oli, Vasile Rus
2022AIEDAutomatic Question Generation for Scaffolding Self-explanations for Code Comprehension.Lasang Jimba Tamang, Rabin Banjade, Jeevan Chapagain, Vasile Rus
2022EDMPreliminary Experiments with Transformer based Approaches To Automatically Inferring Domain Models from Textbooks.Rabin Banjade, Priti Oli, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus
2022EDMThe Third Workshop of the Learner Data Institute: Big Data, Research Challenges, \& Science Convergence in Educational Data Science.Vasile Rus, Stephen Fancsali
2022FlAIRSAutomated Assessment of Student Self-explanation During Source Code Comprehension.Jeevan Chapagain, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Rabin Banjade, Priti Oli, Vasile Rus
2022ITSDeepCode: An Annotated Set of Instructional Code Examples to Foster Deep Code Comprehension and Learning.Vasile Rus, Peter Brusilovsky, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Kamil Akhuseyinoglu, Scott Fleming
2021CSEDUExperiments with Auto-generated Socratic Dialogue for Source Code Understanding.Zeyad Alshaikh, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus
2021EDMPrompting for Free Self-Explanations Promotes Better Code Comprehension (Work In Progress).Vasile Rus, Kamil Akhuseyinoglu, Jeevan Chapagain, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Peter Brusilovsky
2021EDMThe Learner Data Institute - Conceptualization: A Progress Report.Vasile Rus, Stephen E. Fancsali, Philip I. Pavlik Jr., Deepak Venugopal, Arthur C. Graesser, Steven Ritter, Dale Bowman, The LDI Team
2021EDMStudent Strategy Prediction using a Neuro-Symbolic Approach.Anup Shakya, Vasile Rus, Deepak Venugopal
2021EDMNeuro-Symbolic Models: A Scalable, Explainable Framework for Strategy Discovery from Big Edu-Data.Deepak Venugopal, Vasile Rus, Anup Shakya
2021FlAIRSDomain Model Discovery from Textbooks for Computer Programming Intelligent Tutors.Rabin Banjade, Priti Oli, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Jeevan Chapagain, Vasile Rus
2021FlAIRSTowards Improving Open Student Answer Assessment using Pretrained Transformers.Nisrine Ait Khayi, Vasile Rus, Lasang Jimba Tamang
2021FlAIRSAutomated Assessment of Quality of Jupyter Notebooks Using Artificial Intelligence and Big Code.Priti Oli, Rajendra Banjade, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus
2021SIGCSEA Comparative Study of Free Self-Explanations and Socratic Tutoring Explanations for Source Code Comprehension.Lasang Jimba Tamang, Zeyad Alshaikh, Nisrine Ait Khayi, Priti Oli, Vasile Rus
2020AIEDA Socratic Tutor for Source Code Comprehension.Zeyad Alshaikh, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus
2020AIEDUsing Neural Tensor Networks for Open Ended Short Answer Assessment.Dipesh Gautam, Vasile Rus
2020FlAIRSExperiments with a Socratic Intelligent Tutoring System for Source Code Understanding.Zeyad Alshaikh, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus
2020FlAIRSAttention Based Transformer for Student Answers Assessment.Nisrine Ait Khayi, Vasile Rus
2020FlAIRSThe Effects of Open Self-Explanation Prompting During Source Code Comprehension.Lasang Jimba Tamang, Zeyad Alshaikh, Nisrine Ait Khayi, Vasile Rus
2019AIEDA Concept Map Based Assessment of Free Student Answers in Tutorial Dialogues.Nabin Maharjan, Vasile Rus
2019EDMAssessing Student Response in Tutorial Dialogue Context using Probabilistic Soft Logic.Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus
2019EDMClustering Students Based on Their Prior Knowledge.Nisrine Ait Khayi, Vasile Rus
2019FlAIRSEffect of Domain Corpus Size and LSA Vector Dimension: A Study in Assessing Student Generated Short Texts in Virtual Internships Without Participant Data.Dipesh Gautam, Zhiqiang Cai, Vasile Rus
2019FlAIRSA Conversational Intelligent Agent for Career Guidance and Counseling.Andrew J. Hampton, Vasile Rus, Frank Andrasik, Benjamin Nye, Art Graesser
2019FlAIRSTowards Concept Map Based Free Student Answer Assessment.Nabin Maharjan, Vasile Rus
2019HCIStandardizing Unstructured Interaction Data in Adaptive Instructional Systems.Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Xiangen Hu, Jody L. Cockroft
2018AIEDAssessing Free Student Answers in Tutorial Dialogues Using LSTM Models.Nabin Maharjan, Dipesh Gautam, Vasile Rus
2018EDMAutomated Speech Act Categorization of Chat Utterances in Virtual Internships.Dipesh Gautam, Nabin Maharjan, Art Graesser, Vasile Rus
2018FlAIRSLong Short Term Memory Based Models for Negation Handling in Tutorial Dialogues.Dipesh Gautam, Nabin Maharjan, Rajendra Banjade, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Vasile Rus
2018FlAIRSDiscovering Effective Tutorial Strategies in Human Tutorial Sessions.Nabin Maharjan, Vasile Rus, Dipesh Gautam
2017CICLINGPooling Word Vector Representations Across Models.Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Dipesh Gautam, Frank Andrasik, Arthur C. Graesser, Vasile Rus
2017EDMModeling Classifiers for Virtual Internships Without Participant Data.Dipesh Gautam, Zachari Swiecki, David W. Shaffer, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser
2017FlAIRSAutomated Assessment of Open-ended Student Answers in Tutorial Dialogues Using Gaussian Mixture Models.Nabin Maharjan, Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus
2017FlAIRSMarkov Analysis of Students' Professional Skills in Virtual Internships.Vasile Rus, Dipesh Gautam, Dale Bowman, Arthur C. Graesser, David W. Shaffer
2017FlAIRSAn Analysis of Human Tutors' Actions in Tutorial Dialogues.Vasile Rus, Nabin Maharjan, Lasang Jimba Tamang, Michael Yudelson, Susan R. Berman, Stephen E. Fancsali, Steven Ritter
2016COLINGJoint Inference for Mode Identification in Tutorial Dialogues.Deepak Venugopal, Vasile Rus
2016EDMToward Integrating Cognitive Tutor Interaction Data with Human Tutoring Text Dialogue Data in LearnSphere.Stephen E. Fancsali, Steven Ritter, Susan R. Berman, Michael Yudelson, Vasile Rus, Donald M. Morrison
2016EDMPreliminary Results On Dialogue Act and Subact Classification in Chat-based Online Tutorial Dialogues.Vasile Rus, Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Donald M. Morrison, Steven Ritter, Michael Yudelson
2016EDMAssessing Student-Generated Design Justifications in Virtual Engineering Internships.Vasile Rus, Dipesh Gautam, Zach Swiecki, David W. Shaffer, Art Graesser
2016FlAIRSHandling Missing Words by Mapping Across Word Vector Representations.Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Dipesh Gautam, Vasile Rus
2016FlAIRSTowards Detecting Intra- and Inter-Sentential Negation Scope and Focus in Dialogue.Rajendra Banjade, Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus
2016LRECDT-Neg: Tutorial Dialogues Annotated for Negation Scope and Focus in Context.Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus
2016LRECSemAligner: A Method and Tool for Aligning Chunks with Semantic Relation Types and Semantic Similarity Scores.Nabin Maharjan, Rajendra Banjade, Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus
2015AAAIDeepTutor: An Effective, Online Intelligent Tutoring System That Promotes Deep Learning.Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Rajendra Banjade
2015AIEDTutorial Dialogue Modes in a Large Corpus of Online Tutoring Transcripts.Donald M. Morrison, Benjamin Nye, Vasile Rus, Sarah Snyder, Jennifer Boller, Kenneth B. Miller
2015AIEDIntegrating Learning Progressions in Unsupervised After-School Online Intelligent Tutoring.Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Nobal B. Niraula, Rajendra Banjade
2015CICLINGLemon and Tea Are Not Similar: Measuring Word-to-Word Similarity by Combining Different Methods.Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus, Dipesh Gautam
2015EDMHierarchical Dialogue Act Classification in Online Tutoring Sessions.Borhan Samei, Vasile Rus, Benjamin Nye, Donald M. Morrison
2015FlAIRSUsing an Implicit Method for Coreference Resolution and Ellipsis Handling in Automatic Student Answer Assessment.Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula
2015FlAIRSCombining Word Representations for Measuring Word Relatedness and Similarity.Nobal B. Niraula, Dipesh Gautam, Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Vasile Rus
2015FlAIRSAutomated Labelling of Dialogue Modes In Tutorial Dialogues.Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Nabin Maharjan, Rajendra Banjade
2014CICLINGA Machine Learning Approach to Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems.Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus
2014CICLINGA Sentence Similarity Method Based on Chunking and Information Content.Dan Stefanescu, Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus
2014EDMError Analysis as a Validation of Learning Progressions.Brent Morgan, William Baggett, Vasile Rus
2014EDMBuilding an Intelligent PAL from the Tutor.com Session Database Phase 1: Data Mining.Donald M. Morrison, Benjamin Nye, Borhan Samei, Vivek V. Datla, Craig Kelly, Vasile Rus
2014EDMMining Gap-fill Questions from Tutorial Dialogues.Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus, Dan Stefanescu, Arthur C. Graesser
2014EDMTowards Assessing Students' Prior Knowledge from Tutorial Dialogues.Dan Stefanescu, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser
2014FlAIRSOpportunities and Challenges in Semantic Similarity.Vasile Rus
2014FlAIRSA Bilingual Analysis of Cohesion in a Corpus of Leader Speeches.Lubna Shala, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser
2014FlAIRSCombining Knowledge and Corpus-based Measures for Word-to-Word Similarity.Dan Stefanescu, Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Rajendra Banjade
2014ITSMacro-adaptation in Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Matters.Vasile Rus, Dan Stefanescu, William Baggett, Nobal B. Niraula, Donald R. Franceschetti, Arthur C. Graesser
2014ITSContext-Based Speech Act Classification in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.Borhan Samei, Haiying Li, Fazel Keshtkar, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser
2014LRECThe DARE Corpus: A Resource for Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems.Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus, Rajendra Banjade, Dan Stefanescu, William Baggett, Brent Morgan
2014LRECOn Paraphrase Identification Corpora.Vasile Rus, Rajendra Banjade, Mihai C. Lintean
2014LRECLatent Semantic Analysis Models on Wikipedia and TASA.Dan Stefanescu, Rajendra Banjade, Vasile Rus
2013ACLSEMILAR: The Semantic Similarity Toolkit.Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Rajendra Banjade, Nobal B. Niraula, Dan Stefanescu
2013AIEDThe SCHOLAR Legacy: A New Look at the Affordances of Semantic Networks for Conversational Agents in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.Donald M. Morrison, Vasile Rus
2013AIEDRecommendations for the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring Based on the Development of the Deep Tutor Service.Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Mihai C. Lintean, Rajendra Banjade, Dan Stefanescu, William Baggett
2013CICLINGSimilarity Measures Based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation.Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Rajendra Banjade
2013EDMDARE: Deep Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue based Intelligent Tutoring Systems.Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus, Dan Stefanescu
2013EDMSEMILAR: A Semantic Similarity Toolkit for Assessing Students' Natural Language Inputs.Vasile Rus, Rajendra Banjade, Mihai C. Lintean, Nobal B. Niraula, Dan Stefanescu
2013FlAIRSA Study of Probabilistic and Algebraic Methods for Semantic Similarity.Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula, Rajendra Banjade
2013RANLPTowards a Structured Representation of Generic Concepts and Relations in Large Text Corpora.Archana Bhattarai, Vasile Rus
2012CICLINGA Domain Independent Framework to Extract and Aggregate Analogous Features in Online Reviews.Archana Bhattarai, Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus, King-Ip (David) Lin
2012CICLINGAutomated Detection of Local Coherence in Short Argumentative Essays Based on Centering Theory.Vasile Rus, Nobal B. Niraula
2012EDMAutomatic Discovery of Speech Act Categories in Educational Games.Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Cristian Moldovan, Nobal B. Niraula
2012FlAIRSMeasuring Semantic Similarity in Short Texts through Greedy Pairing and Word Semantics.Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus
2012ICCEHybrid Question Generation Approach for Critical Review Writing Support.Ming Liu, Rafael A. Calvo, Vasile Rus
2012ITSFacilitating Co-adaptation of Technology and Education through the Creation of an Open-Source Repository of Interoperable Code.Philip I. Pavlik Jr., Jaclyn K. Maass, Vasile Rus, Andrew Olney
2012ITSAn Optimal Assessment of Natural Language Student Input Using Word-to-Word Similarity Metrics.Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean
2011FlAIRSSpecial Track on Applied Natural Language Processing.Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus
2011FlAIRSDissimilarity Kernels for Paraphrase Identification.Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus
2011FlAIRSA Linguistic Analysis of Student-Generated Paraphrases.Vasile Rus, Shi Feng, Russell D. Brandon, Scott A. Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara
2010FlAIRSThe Role of Local and Global Weighting in Assessing the Semantic Similarity of Texts Using Latent Semantic Analysis.Mihai C. Lintean, Cristian Moldovan, Vasile Rus, Danielle S. McNamara
2010FlAIRSComputational Aspects of the Intelligent Tutoring System MetaTutor.Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Roger Azevedo
2010INLGThe First Question Generation Shared Task Evaluation Challenge.Vasile Rus, Brendan Wyse, Paul Piwek, Mihai C. Lintean, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Cristian Moldovan
2010ITSAutomatic Question Generation for Literature Review Writing Support.Ming Liu, Rafael A. Calvo, Vasile Rus
2009AIEDMetaTutor: Analyzing Self-Regulated Learning in a Tutoring System for Biology.Roger Azevedo, Amy M. Witherspoon, Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara, Amber Chauncey, Emily Siler, Zhiqiang Cai, Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean
2009AIEDThe 2nd Workshop on Question Generation.Vasile Rus, James C. Lester
2009AIEDAssessing Student Paraphrases Using Lexical Semantics and Word Weighting.Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara
2009EDMAutomatic Detection of Student Mental Models During Prior Knowledge Activation in MetaTutor.Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Roger Azevedo
2009FlAIRSParaphrase Identification Using Weighted Dependencies and Word Semantics.Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus
2009SEKEClustering of Defect Reports Using Graph Partitioning Algorithms.Vasile Rus, Xiaofei Nan, Sajjan G. Shiva, Yixin Chen
2008FlAIRSAssessing Forward-, Reverse-, and Average-Entailer Indices on Natural Language Input from the Intelligent Tutoring System, iSTART.Philip M. McCarthy, Vasile Rus, Scott A. Crossley, Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara
2008FlAIRSA Semantic Method for Textual Entailment.Andrew Neel, Max H. Garzon, Vasile Rus
2008FlAIRSParaphrase Identification with Lexico-Syntactic Graph Subsumption.Vasile Rus, Philip M. McCarthy, Mihai C. Lintean, Danielle S. McNamara, Arthur C. Graesser
2008SEKEAutomatic Clustering of Defect Reports.Vasile Rus, Sameer Mohammed, Sajjan G. Shiva
2007CICLINGExperiments on Generating Questions About Facts.Vasile Rus, Zhiqiang Cai, Arthur C. Graesser
2007CICLINGUnsupervised Method for Parsing Coordinated Base Noun Phrases.Vasile Rus, Sireesha Ravi, Mihai C. Lintean, Philip M. McCarthy
2007FlAIRSNaive Bayes and Decision Trees for Function Tagging.Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus
2007FlAIRSAssessing Entailer with a Corpus of Natural Language from an Intelligent Tutoring System.Philip M. McCarthy, Vasile Rus, Scott A. Crossley, Sarah C. Bigham, Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. McNamara
2006AAAIDeeper Natural Language Processing for Evaluating Student Answers in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser
2006CICLINGAnalysis of a Textual Entailer.Vasile Rus, Philip M. McCarthy, Arthur C. Graesser
2006FlAIRSDependency-based Textual Entailment.Vasile Rus
2006LRECThe Look and Feel of a Confident Entailer.Vasile Rus, Art Graesser
2005CICLINGAssigning Function Tags with a Simple Model.Vasile Rus, Kirtan Desai
2005FlAIRSA Method to Generate Large Common-Sense Knowledge Bases from Online Lexical Resources.Vasile Rus
2005FlAIRSFew Models for Grammatical Relations Recovery.Vasile Rus, Kirtan Desai
2005ICTAIA Study on Textual Entailment.Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Philip M. McCarthy, King-Ip (David) Lin
2004PRICAIA Model for Identifying the Underlying Logical Structure of Natural Language.Vasile Rus, Alex Fit-Florea
2002FlAIRSBracketing Compound Nouns for Logic Form Derivation.Vasile Rus, Dan I. Moldovan, Orest Bolohan
2001ACLThe Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedback in Open-Domain Textual Question-Answering.Sanda M. Harabagiu, Dan I. Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Surdeanu, Razvan C. Bunescu, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus, Paul Morarescu
2001ACLLogic Form Transformation of WordNet and its Applicability to Question Answering.Dan I. Moldovan, Vasile Rus
2001FlAIRSTransformation of WordNet Glosses into Logic Forms.Dan I. Moldovan, Vasile Rus
2001ICTAIHigh Precision Logic Form Transformation.Vasile Rus
2000ACLThe Structure and Performance of an Open-Domain Question Answering System.Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Roxana Girju, Richard Goodrum, Vasile Rus