🧑‍🔬 James C. Lester

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓North Carolina State UniversityRaleigh · United States1994–2026 · 443 papersEmployment · Goodnight Distinguished University Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Computer Sciencecurrent🎓Indiana UniversityBloomington · United States2023 · 2 papers🎓The University of Texas at AustinAustin · United States1994 · 1 paperEducation

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. An Affect-Enriched Dialogue Act Classification Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue (2011 · 60 citations)
   Most dialogue act classifiers ignore the user's emotional state. This paper asks whether facial cues of confusion can help label student moves in textual, task-oriented tutoring dialogue. The data come from a human-human tutoring study in introductory computer programming. Students typed to tutors while webcams…
2. Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented Domain (2010 · 42 citations)
   The paper addresses automatic recognition of student dialogue acts in tutoring for introductory Java programming.
3. Dual Process Masking for Dialogue Act Recognition (2024 · 6 citations)
   The paper addresses dialogue act recognition: labelling each utterance in a conversation with its communicative function.
4. Improving Classroom Dialogue Act Recognition from Limited Labeled Data with Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Classifiers (2023 · 3 citations)
   Labeled K-12 classroom dialogue is scarce. Privacy rules limit sharing, research groups each use their own coding schemes, and classroom talk is tied to the subject being taught. Kumaran et al. therefore address dialogue act recognition when only a handful of annotated utterances per class exist. Their system, SSCon…

All works

11 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Towards Narrative-Centered Learning Environments ↗no summary yetBradford W. Mort et al.1999 · 91 citations
2. An Affect-Enriched Dialogue Act Classification Model for Task-Oriented DialogueAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Kristy Boyer, Joseph Grafsgaard, Eun Young Ha, et al.2011 · 60 citations
3. Goal Recognition with Markov Logic Networks for Player-Adaptive Games ↗Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yetEun Young Ha et al.51 citations
4. Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented DomainAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Kristy Boyer, Eun Y. Ha, Robert Phillips, et al.2010 · 42 citations
5. Habitable 3D Learning Environments for Situated Learning ↗Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yetWilliam H. Bares, Luke Zettlemoyer, James C. Lester1998 · 32 citations
6. Task-sensitive cinematography interfaces for interactive 3D learning environments ↗ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) · no summary yetWilliam H. Bares et al.1998 · 26 citations
7. Animated pedagogical agents in knowledge-based learning environments ↗no summary yetJames C. Lester et al.2001 · 20 citations
8. Dual Process Masking for Dialogue Act RecognitionFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsYeo Jin Kim, Halim Acosta, Wookhee Min, et al.2024 · 6 citations
9. Improving Classroom Dialogue Act Recognition from Limited Labeled Data with Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning ClassifiersFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsVikram Kumaran, Jonathan Rowe, Bradford Mott, et al.2023 · 3 citations
10. The MITRE Corporation, “A Proposed VDLT Traffic Model for Capacity Simulation”, AMCP/WG-D/5 WP-16 ↗no summary yetJoël P. Grégoire, Luke Zettlemoyer, James C. Lester1999
11. Explanatory Lifelike Avatars: Performing User Centered Tasks ↗no summary yetJames C. Lester et al.1999

🤝 Co-authors here

6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Bradford Mott ×2
• Eun Young Ha ×2
• Jonathan Rowe ×2
• Kristy Boyer ×2
• Robert Phillips ×2
• Snigdha Chaturvedi ×2

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ×2: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2024, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023
• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): ACL 2011
• Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL): SIGDIAL 2010
• ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
• Lecture notes in computer science
• Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 25 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 10 citing papers with a page here →.

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