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Scott Crossley,
Assistant Professor

Curriculum Vitae

Institute for Intelligent Systems
Scott Crosslely Scott Crossley received his Ph.D. from the University of Memphis in 2006. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate classes in second language acquisition, general linguistics, and TESOL approaches and methodology. He has also held various teaching positions both abroad and in the United States. His past research projects include work with conceptual metaphors, genre analysis, structural grammars, and literary cohesion. His current research interests include computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, dialogue structures, conversational agents, multi-modal behavior, and discourse analysis. He is also affliated with the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis..

Selected publications

Crossley, S.A. (2005). Metaphorical considerations in hip-hop music: Toward a better understanding of the hip-hop generation. African American Review, 9, (4) 501-512. [PDF]

Louwerse, M.M. & Crossley, S.A. (2006). Dialog act classification using N-Gram algorithms. In G. Sutcliffe & R. Goebel (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (pp. 758-763). Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press. [PDF]

Crossley, S.A., McCarthy, P.M. and McNamara, D.S. (2007). Discriminating between second language learning text-types. In D. Wilson & G. Sutcliffe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (pp. 205-210). Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press. [PDF]

McCarthy, P.M., Rus, V., Crossley, S.A., Bigham, S.C., Graesser, A.C. & McNamara, D.S. (2007). Assessing entailer with a corpus of natural language from an intelligent tutoring system. In D. Wilson & G. Sutcliffe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (pp. 247-252). Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press. [PDF]

Crossley, S.A, Dufty, D.F., McCarthy, P.M. & McNamara, D.S. (2007). Toward a new readability: A mixed model approach. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Crossley, S. A. (2007). A chronotopic approach to genre analysis: An exploratory study. English for Specific Purposes, 26 (1) 4-24. [PDF]

Crossley, S. A., Louwerse, M. M., McCarthy, P. M. & McNamara, D. S. (2007). A linguistic analysis of simplified and authentic texts. Modern Language Journal, 91, (2) 15-30. [PDF]

Crossley, S. A., Salsbury, T. McCarthy, P. M. & McNamara, D. S. (2008). Using Latent Semantic Analysis to explore second language lexical development. In D. Wilson & G. Sutcliffe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (pp. 136-141). Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press. [PDF]

McCarthy, P. M., Rus, V., Crossley, S. A., Graesser, A. C., & McNamara, D. S. (2008). Assessing forward-, reverse-, and average entailment indices on natural language input from the intelligent tutoring system, iSTART. In D. Wilson & G. Sutcliffe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (pp. 165-170). Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press. [PDF]

Crossley, S. A., Salsbury, T., McCarthy, P. M., & McNamara, D. S. (2008) LSA as a measure of second language natural discourse. In V. Sloutsky, B. Love, and K. McRae (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (1906-1911). Washington, D.C.: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

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