Lee Becker, Martha Palmer, Sarel van Vuuren, Wayne Ward (2011), Evaluating Questions in Context, Accepted to the AAAI Fall 2001 Symposium on Question Generation, Arlington, Virginia, November 4-6, 2011
Caleb Phillips, Lee Becker, and Elizabeth Bradley, (2011), Strange Beta: An Assistance System for Indoor Rock Climbing Route Setting Using Chaotic Variations and Machine Learning. University of Colorado at Boulder, Tech. Report CU-CS-1088-11. October, 2011 [PDF]
Wayne Ward, Ronald Cole, Daniel Bolaños, Cindy Buchenroth-Martin, Edward Svirsky, Sarel van Vuuren, Timothy Weston, Jing Zheng, Lee Becker, (2011), My Science Tutor: A Conversational Multimedia Virtual Tutor for Elementary School Science, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP), Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2011 [PDF]
Lee Becker, Wayne H. Ward, Sarel van Vuuren, Martha Palmer (2011), DISCUSS: A dialogue move taxonomy layered over semantic representations, Accepted to the 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS2011), Oxford, England, January 12-14, 2011.[PDF][BIB]
Lee Becker, Rodney D. Nielsen, Ifeyinwa Okoye, Tamara Sumner, Wayne H. Ward (2010), What’s next? Target Concept Identification, Accepted to the 3rd Workshop on Question Generation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 14, 2010. [PDF][Slides][BIB]
Lee Becker, Rodney D. Nielsen, and Wayne Ward (2009), What a pilot study says about running a question generation challenge, Accepted to The 2nd Workshop on Question Generation, Brighton, England, July 6-7. 2009. [PDF] [Slides][BIB]
Rodney D. Nielsen, Lee Becker and Wayne Ward (2008), TAC 2008 CLEAR RTE System Report: Facet-based Entailment, In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 17-19, 2008. National Institute of Standards and Technology. [PDF][BIB]
Other
Lee Becker, Wayne H. Ward, Sarel Van Vuuren, DISCUSS: Enabling Detailed Characterization of Tutorial Interactions Through Dialogue Annotation, Accepted as a Poster to EDM 2011, the 3rd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 11, 2010.[BIB]
Lee Becker, Planning, Optimizing, and Tagging: Three Approaches to Dialogue Management, PhD Preliminary Exam, October 2009. [PDF][Slides]
Zachary Smith, Lee Becker, and David Heckman, Random code generation using genetic algorithms, US Patent 6918098, July 2005.