Reva Freedman

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Northern IllinoisUniversity

rfreedman@niu.edu

Coordinates

Mailing address:

Department of Computer Science
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115

Note: No street address is needed, but if you can't convince your mailroom of that, use the address of our mailroom, 1425 W. Lincoln Hwy.

Physical address:

Psychology/Computer Science 554

Phone:

Phone: The university is too cheap to provide phones to the faculty
Fax: (815) 753-0342 (let me know you've sent one)

Email preferred.

Teaching (most recent instance of each course)

• CS240 Computer Programming in C++
• CS241 Intermediate Programming
• CS330 Unix and Network Programming

• CS340 Data Stuctures and Algorithm Analysis
• CS463 Computer Architecture and Systems Organization (in-person section only)
• CS480 Operating Systems Principles

• CSCI 656 Artificial Intelligence
• CSCI 657 Natural Language Processing I
• CSCI 658 Natural Language Processing II

• CSCI 470/502 Programming Principles in Java
• CSCI 503 Programming Principles in Python
• CSCI 701 Research Methods in Computer Science

• ILAS 261 Language, Mind and Thought: Introduction to Cognitive Science

Research

Research interests

• 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

Natural language research

• Style in text generation using deep learning
  • Flairs 2024 paper
  
  
• Machine learning for natural language
  • 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.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2022.101288.
  
  
  • Ashli Fain and Reva Freedman. (2019).
    How Animacy and Information Status Determine Word Order in Translation of the Passive Voice
    32nd International FLAIRS Conference, Sarasota, pp. 233-237.
    https://cdn.aaai.org/ocs/18308/18308-78927-1-PB.pdf
  
  
  • Reva Freedman. (2017).
    Can Language Processing Help Identify the Author(s) of the Book of Isaiah?
    30th International FLAIRS Conference, Marco Island, pp. 297-300,
    https://cdn.aaai.org/ocs/15541/15541-68665-1-PB.pdf
  
  
  • Melissa Wright and Reva Freedman. (2017)
    Syntactic Differentiation in Oscar Wilde's "Dorian Gray."
    28th Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS 2017), Fort Wayne, pp. 204-206.
    https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1964/PosterPapers.pdf
  
  

Intelligent tutoring systems (not currently accepting new students)

• ALAST: Middle-school scientific argumentation
  • 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.
    https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/article/view/32624/37851
  
  
• CRAM: College-level anatomy and biology
  • 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.
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-32883-1_12
  
  
  • 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.
    First Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks, co-located with AIED 2019, Chicago.
    https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2384/paper13.pdf
  
  

Research methods and scientometrics

• 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.

Other miscellaneous projects

• Getting Microsoft out of my life.

Unpublished documents

Education

• Ph.D., Northwestern University, Department of EECS.
  Interaction of Discourse Planning, Instructional Planning and Dialogue Management in an Interactive Tutoring System.
  pdf

• M. A., Northwestern University, Department of EECS.
  A Logic-Based Transformation System for using Data Flow Diagrams in Software System Design.

• B. A., University of Chicago, mathematics.

Last updated Fri. 8/26/2024