Publications

Bronner, Lenny, Diane Napolitano, Kati Perry, and Luis Melgar. November 2024. “Who is ahead in Harris vs. Trump 2024 presidential polls right now?” The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/presidential-polling-averages/.

Napolitano, Diane, and Lenny Bronner. April 2024. “Analyzing Voter Behavior Patterns: Insights from The Washington Post”. https://washpost.engineering/analyzing-voter-behavior-patterns-insights-from-the-washington-post-07284ee5cd77.

Bronner, Lenny, Derek Hawkins, Luis Melgar, and Diane Napolitano. January 2024a. “See how Trump more than doubled his support in Iowa since 2016”. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/01/16/trump-iowa-results/.

______. January 2024b. “See how Trump pulled support from his 2016 rivals to fuel New Hampshire win”. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/24/new-hampshire-results-republican-voters/.

Sheehan, Kathleen M, and Diane Napolitano. May 2019. “Generating Reliable Feedback About Students’ Performances Within an Automated Reading Tutor”. Journal of Educational Computing Research 57 (3): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0735633119845412. https://doi.org/10.1177/0735633119845412.

Forsyth, Carolyn M., Stephanie Peters, Jung Aa Moon, and Diane Napolitano. April 2019. Assessing Scientific Inquiry Based on Multiple Sources of Evidence. Presentation. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Toronto, ON, Canada.

Burstein, Jill, Norbert Elliot, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Nitin Madnani, Diane Napolitano, Maxwell Schwartz, Patrick Houghton, and Hillary Molloy. December 2018. “Writing Mentor: Writing Progress Using Self-Regulated Writing Support”. The Journal of Writing Analytics 2 (1): 285–313. https://journals.colostate.edu/analytics/article/view/213.

Madnani, Nitin, Jill Burstein, Norbert Elliot, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Diane Napolitano, Slava Andreyev, and Maxwell Schwartz. August 2018. “Writing Mentor: Self-Regulated Writing Feedback for Struggling Writers”. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING): System Demonstrations Session. Santa Fe, NM. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-2025.

Madnani, Nitin, Aoife Cahill, Daniel Blanchard, Slava Andreyev, Diane Napolitano, Binod Gyawali, Michael Heilman, et al. April 2018. A Robust Microservice Architecture for Scaling Automated Scoring Applications. ETS Research Report Series. https://doi.org/10.1002/ets2.12202. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ets2.12202.

Malmasi, Shervin, Keelan Evanini, Aoife Cahill, Joel Tetreault, Robert Pugh, Christopher Hamill, Diane Napolitano, and Yao Qian. September 2017. “A Report on the 2017 Native Language Identification Shared Task”. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA). Copenhagen, Denmark: Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-5007.

Yoon, Su-Youn, Yeonsuk Cho, and Diane Napolitano. June 2016. “Spoken Text Difficulty Estimation Using Linguistic Features”. In Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA). San Diego, CA: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). http://m-mitchell.com/NAACL-2016/BEA/pdf/BEA1131.pdf.

Sheehan, Kathleen M., Michael Flor, Diane Napolitano, and Chaitanya Ramineni. December 2015a. Using TextEvaluator to Quantify Sources of Linguistic Complexity in Textbooks Targeted at First-Grade Readers Over the Past Half Century. ETS Research Report Series. https://doi.org/10.1002/ets2.12085. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ets2.12085/full.

Bhat, Suma, Su-Youn Yoon, and Diane Napolitano. September 2015. “Automatic Detection of Grammatical Structures from Non-native Speech”. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE). Leipzig, Germany: INTERSPEECH. https://www.slate2015.org/files/submissions/Bhat15-ADO.pdf.

Napolitano, Diane, Kathleen M. Sheehan, and Robert Mundkowsky. June 2015. “Online Readability and Text Complexity Analysis with TextEvaluator”. In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL): System Demonstrations Session. Denver, CO. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N/N15/N15-3020.pdf.

Sheehan, Kathleen M., Michael Flor, Diane Napolitano, and Chaitanya Ramineni. April 2015b. Using TextEvaluator to Better Understand the Comprehension Challenges Presented Within Textbooks Targeted at First Grade Readers. Presentation. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL.

Sheehan, Kathleen M., Irene Kostin, Diane Napolitano, and Michael Flor. December 2014. “The TextEvaluator Tool: Helping Teachers and Test Developers Select Texts for Use in Instruction and Assessment”. The Elementary School Journal 115 (2): 184–209. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678294.

Cho, Yeonsuk, Su-Youn Yoon, Diane Napolitano, and Yuan Wang. May 2014. An Automated Spoken Text Difficulty Evaluation System. Presentation. Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), Athens, OH. https://calico.org/calico-conference/conferences-from-previous-years/calico-2014-ohio-university/thursday-may-8/.

Sheehan, Kathleen M., and Diane Napolitano. April 2014. Measuring the Difficulty of Inferring Connections Across Sentences. Presentation. National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia, PA.

Higgins, Derrick, Chris Brew, Michael Heilman, Ramon Ziai, Lei Chen, Aoife Cahill, Michael Flor, et al. March 2014. Is getting the right answer just about choosing the right words? The role of syntactically-informed features in short answer scoring. arXiv: 1403.0801 [cs.CL]. http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0801v2.

Sheehan, Kathleen M., Irene Kostin, Diane Napolitano, and Michael Flor. December 2013. Helping teachers and test developers determine the difficulty of text for instruction and assessment. Presentation. Literacy Research Association, Addressing the Three Legs of the Text Complexity Triangle: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Reader-Task Systems, Dallas, TX.

Cahill, Aoife, Joel Madnani Nitin Tetreault, and Diane Napolitano. June 2013. “Robust Systems for Preposition Error Correction Using Wikipedia Revisions”. In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Atlanta, GA. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N13/N13-1055.pdf.

Sheehan, Kathleen M., Michael Flor, and Diane Napolitano. June 2013. “A Two-Stage Approach for Generating Unbiased Estimates of Text Complexity”. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA). Atlanta, GA: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W13/W13-15.pdf#page=59.

Sheehan, Kathleen M., Irene Kostin, and Diane Napolitano. April 2012a. SourceRater: An automated approach for generating text complexity classifications aligned with the Common Core Standards. Presentation. National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Vancouver, BC, Canada.

______. April 2012b. SourceRater: Helping Teachers and Test Developers Determine the Difficulty of Text for Instruction and Assessment. Presentation. National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Napolitano, Diane, and Amanda Stent. May 2009. “TechWriter: An Evolving System for Writing Assistance for Advanced Learners of English”. CALICO Journal 26 (3): 611–625. https://www.jstor.org/stable/calicojournal.26.3.611.

______. 2008. TechWriter: An individualized approach to writing assistance and improvement. Poster. Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), Workshop on the Automatic Analysis of Learner Language. calico_poster_08.png.