Publications

• Paper E. Margaret Perkoff, Angela Maria Ramirez, Sean von Bayern, Marilyn A. Walker, and James Martin. 2024. “Keep up the good work!”: Using Constraints in Zero Shot Prompting to Generate Supportive Teacher Responses. In 25th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Kyoto, Japan.
• E. Margaret Perkoff, Emily Doherty, Jeffrey Bush. 2024. Crafting a Responsible Dialog System for Collaborative Learning Environments. In AI for Education: Bridging Innovation and Responsibility at the 38th AAAI Annual Conference on AI. Vancouver, Canada.
• PaperE. Margaret Perkoff, Abhidip Bhattacharya, Jon Z. Cai. Comparing Neural Question Generation Architectures for Reading Comprehension. In ACL 2023 Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Toronto, Canada.
• PaperAnanya Ganesh, Jie Cao,E. Margaret Perkoff, Rosy Southwell, Martha Palmer and Katharina Kann. Mind the Gap between the Application Track and the Real World. In ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada.
• PaperJie Cao, Ananya Ganesh, Jon Cai, Rosy Southwell, Margaret Perkoff, Michael Regan, Katharina Kann, James Martin, Martha Palmer and Sidney D’Mello. A Comparative Analysis of Automatic Speech Recognition Errors in Small Group Classroom Discourse. In ACM UMAP 2023, Limassol, Cyprus.
• PaperLayne Jackson Hubbard, Norielle Adricula, Chelsea Brown, E. Margaret Perkoff, Shiran Dudy, Eliana Colunga, Tom Yeh. The Dimensions of Reflection Coding Scheme: A New Tool for Measuring the Impact of Designing for Reflection in Early Childhood. In ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2023, Virtual.
• PaperJon Z. Cai, Brendan King, Margaret Perkoff, Shiran Dudy, Jie Cao, Marie Grace, Natalia Wojarnik, Ananya Ganesh, James H. Martin, Martha Palmer, Marilyn Walker and Jeffrey Flanigan. Dependency Dialogue Acts — Annotation Scheme and Case Study. In IWSDS 2023, Los Angeles, USA.
• PaperJeffrey B. Bush, Indrani Dey, Michael Alan Chang, and Margaret Perkoff. Envisioning a Classroom AI as a Community Builder. In AIED 2022 Workshop - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Getting AI Experts and Education Stakeholders Talking, Durham, United Kingdom.
• Paper E. Margaret Perkoff. 2021. Dialogue Act Classification for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact, pages 107–114, Online, August. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• White Paper Earl Huff, Varsha Koushik, Richard E. Ladner, Stephanie Ludi, Lauren Milne, Aboubakar Mountapmbeme, Margaret Perkoff, and Andreas Stefik. 2021. Accessible Tools and Curricula for K-12 Computer Science Education. Technical report, Microsoft, February.
• Paper E. Margaret Perkoff, Josh Daniels, and Alexis Palmer. 2021. Orthographic vs. Semantic Representations for Unsupervised Morphological Paradigm Clustering. In Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 90–97, Online, August. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Paper Abhijit Suresh, Jennifer Jacobs,Margaret Perkoff, James H. Martin and Tamara Sumner. Fine-tuning Transformers with Additional Context to Classify Discursive Moves in Mathematics Classrooms. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Seattle WA.
• Paper Rosy Southwell, Samuel Pugh,E. Margaret Perkoff, Charis Clevenger, Jeffrey Bush, Rachel Lieber, Wayne Ward, Peter Foltz and Sidney D’Mello. Challenges and Feasibility of Automatic Speech Recognition for Modeling Student Collaborative Discourse in Classrooms. In Proceedings of The 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2022), Durham UK.
• Paper Abhijit Suresh, Jennifer Jacobs, Charis Harty, Margaret Perkoff, James H. Martin and Tamara Sumner. 20-25 June 2022. The TalkMoves Dataset: K-12 Mathematics Lesson Transcripts Annotated for Teacher and Student Discursive Moves.
• Jeffrey B. Bush, Indrani Dey, Michael Alan Chang, and Margaret Perkoff. Envisioning a Classroom AI as a Community Builder. In AIED 2022 Workshop - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Getting AI Experts and Education Stakeholders Talking, Durham, United Kingdom.

Interactive Demos

** Winner of Best Interactive Event at AIED 2022**

• Rachel Dickler, Peter Foltz, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Jacob Whitehill, John Weatherly, Michal Bodzianowski, Maggie Perkoff, Rosy Southwell, Samuel Pugh, Jeff Bush, Michael Chang, Leanne Hirshfield, Daeja Showers, Ananya Ganesh, Zeqian Li, Elita Danilyuk, Xinlu He, Ibrahim Khalil Khebour, Indrani Dey, et al. July 29-30 2022. iSAT Speech-Based AI Display for Small Group Collaboration in Classrooms.
• Weatherley, J., Dickler, R., Foltz, P. W., Srinivas, A., Pugh, S., Krishnaswamy, N., Whitehill, J., Bodzianowski, M., Perkoff, M., Southwell, R., Bush, J., Chang, M., Hirshfield, L. M., Showers, D., Ganesh, A., Li, Z., Danilyuk, E., He, X., Khebour, I., Dey, I., and D’Mello, S. K. (2023). The iSAT Collaboration Analytics Pipeline. In International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK). Society for Learning Analytics Research.