John Sabatini


2019

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My Turn To Read: An Interleaved E-book Reading Tool for Developing and Struggling Readers
Nitin Madnani | Beata Beigman Klebanov | Anastassia Loukina | Binod Gyawali | Patrick Lange | John Sabatini | Michael Flor
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations

Literacy is crucial for functioning in modern society. It underpins everything from educational attainment and employment opportunities to health outcomes. We describe My Turn To Read, an app that uses interleaved reading to help developing and struggling readers improve reading skills while reading for meaning and pleasure. We hypothesize that the longer-term impact of the app will be to help users become better, more confident readers with an increased stamina for extended reading. We describe the technology and present preliminary evidence in support of this hypothesis.

2017

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Continuous fluency tracking and the challenges of varying text complexity
Beata Beigman Klebanov | Anastassia Loukina | John Sabatini | Tenaha O’Reilly
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

This paper is a preliminary report on using text complexity measurement in the service of a new educational application. We describe a reading intervention where a child takes turns reading a book aloud with a virtual reading partner. Our ultimate goal is to provide meaningful feedback to the parent or the teacher by continuously tracking the child’s improvement in reading fluency. We show that this would not be a simple endeavor, due to an intricate relationship between text complexity from the point of view of comprehension and reading rate.

2016

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Language Muse: Automated Linguistic Activity Generation for English Language Learners
Nitin Madnani | Jill Burstein | John Sabatini | Kietha Biggers | Slava Andreyev
Proceedings of ACL-2016 System Demonstrations

2013

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A User Study: Technology to Increase Teachers’ Linguistic Awareness to Improve Instructional Language Support for English Language Learners
Jill Burstein | John Sabatini | Jane Shore | Brad Moulder | Jennifer Lentini
Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility

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Automated Scoring of a Summary-Writing Task Designed to Measure Reading Comprehension
Nitin Madnani | Jill Burstein | John Sabatini | Tenaha O’Reilly
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

2009

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Automatic Scoring of Children’s Read-Aloud Text Passages and Word Lists
Klaus Zechner | John Sabatini | Lei Chen
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

2007

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The Automated Text Adaptation Tool
Jill Burstein | Jane Shore | John Sabatini | Yong-Won Lee | Matthew Ventura
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT)