Reva Freedman

Associate Professor

Psychology/Computer Science Building, room 554
rfreedman@niu.edu
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Education

• Ph.D., Northwestern University
• M.A., Northwestern University
• B.A., University of Chicago

Areas of Interest

• AI and computational linguistics
  • Text generation
  • Knowledge representation for tutoring and causal reasoning
  • All kinds of declarative formalisms (logic programming constraint-based programming, etc.)
  • Dialogue annotation and analysis
• Linguistics
  • Romance linguistics
  • Semitic linguistics

Representative Publications

• Murtuza Shahzad, Hamed Alhoori, Reva Freedman, and Shaikh Abdul Rahman. (2022).
  Quantifying the Online Long-Term Interest in Research. Journal of Informetrics 16(2): 101288.
• Pi-Sui Hsu, Reva Freedman, Annalise Brockmann, Zachary Hueneke, Dean La Barbera, Ben Kluga, Rui Zhang, Ian Sullivan, and Margot Van Dyke. (2022). Development of a Gamified Argumentation Tool for Middle School Students. International Journal of Designs for Learning 13(1): 114-125.
• Reva Freedman, Virginia Naples, Ian Sullivan, Annalise Brockmann, Lucas Edwards and Dean LaBarbera. (2023). Teaching Cardiovascular Physiology with a Minigame-Based ITS.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2023), Corfu, pp. 137-146.
• Ben Kluga, Manohar Sai Jasti, Virginia Naples, and Reva Freedman. (2019).
  Adding Intelligence to a Textbook for Human Anatomy with a Causal Concept Map Based ITS (PDF). First Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks, co-located with AIED 2019, Chicago.
• Virginia Naples and Reva Freedman. (2022) A graduate research methods class assists students in defining their main and interrelated research areas. 101st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Tucson.
• Reva Freedman. (2018). Evolution of Methods of Evaluation in AI in Education.
  14th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Montreal, pp. 428-430.
• Ashli Fain and Reva Freedman. (2019). How Animacy and Information Status Determine Word Order in Translation of the Passive Voice (PDF). 32nd International FLAIRS Conference, Sarasota, pp. 233-237.
• Reva Freedman. (2017). Can Natural Language Processing Help Identify the Author(s) of the Book of Isaiah? (PDF). 30th International FLAIRS Conference, Marco Island, pp. 297-300.
• Melissa Wright and Reva Freedman. (2017) Syntactic Differentiation in Oscar Wilde's "Dorian Gray" (PDF). 28th Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS 2017), Fort Wayne, pp. 204-206.

Students

• Mosab Rezaei (Ph.D.)
• Miguel Williams (Ph.D.)
• Mina Rajaei Moghadam (M.S., linguistics)