WT&D 2025: WINTER TEXT AND DISCOURSE CONFERENCE 2025
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, February 3rd Tuesday, February 4th Wednesday, February 5th

Monday, February 3rd

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17:00-18:00 Session 1: Opening Panel on AI and Education Discourse

Owen Henkel: Moderator

Discussants: Art GraesserPanayiota KendeouSashank Varma

Location: Alpine-Balsam
Opening Panel on AI and Education Discourse
PRESENTER: Art Graesser
18:00-19:00 Session 2: AI Driven Assessment
Location: Alpine-Balsam
18:00
Charactering Dimensions of Thought Disorder with Large Language Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Peter Foltz
18:20
Do Large Language Models Perceive the Same Event Boundaries as Humans? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sashank Varma
18:40
Using LLMs to help With Story Retell Assessment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Owen Henkel
19:00-21:00 Session 3: Poster Session I and Reception
A Review of Topic Change During Communication (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lauren Flynn
Using Synthetic Data to Improve the Performance of Automated Summary Scoring (abstract)
PRESENTER: Wesley Morris
Enhancing the Cross-Domain Generalizability of Collaborative Discourse Classification with Large Language Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chelsea Chandler
Representation Learning for Reading Behaviors: Integrating Cognitive Models with Deep Learning (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ekta Sood
Self-regulation of digital reading: effects of a long intervention in high-school students (abstract)
From Textual Product to Text Production: Engaging Teachers in Writing Process Feedback (abstract)
PRESENTER: Justin Young
Aligning to Adults Is Easy, Aligning to Children Is Hard: A Study of Linguistic Alignment in Dialogue Systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Dorothea French
Do English Noun Phrase Structures Make Mathematics More Difficult? (abstract)
Too Hard or Just Right? How Difficulty Affects Student Engagement (abstract)
An eye-tracking study of idiom processing by readers with Autism (abstract)
Tuesday, February 4th

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17:00-18:00 Session 4: Discourse in Education
Location: Alpine-Balsam
17:00
Assessment of Training Data for Asset-based Technology (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jaclyn Ocumpaugh
17:20
Putting the Brain Back in the Eye-Mind Link (abstract)
PRESENTER: Megan Caruso
17:40
An NLP investigation of difference and overlap between ELL and native speakers’ writing styles (abstract)
PRESENTER: Maria Goldshtein
18:00-20:00 Session 5A: Poster Session II and Reception
“It feels like we're not meeting the criteria": Examining and mitigating the cascading effects of bias in automatic speech recognition in spoken language interfaces (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kelechi Ezema
Differences in sensitivity to situational and perceptual changes between hearing and deaf individuals when processing stories in American sign language (abstract)
PRESENTER: Joe Magliano
Debunking learning myths: from scientific research to YouTube videos (abstract)
Individual Differences in Thought Patterns and Their Influence on Phenomenology of Reading (abstract)
PRESENTER: Püren Öncel
Cognitive reserve effects on cognitive and discourse production processing in healthy aging (abstract)
PRESENTER: Andrea Marini
Could word lists and short films help young students to write informative texts ? (abstract)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Tier 2 and 3 Reading Interventions for Middle School Readers (abstract)
Impact of Tier 2 Reading Intervention on 7th-Grade Multilingual Learners (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sarah Kocherhans
AI Teammates and Inclusion Analytics: Revolutionizing Equity in STEM Collaboration (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nia Nixon
Supporting Teacher Noticing in Classroom Discourse with Generative AI Analytics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Fanjie Li
18:00-20:00 Session 5B: Demonstrations
Detection and support of states of collaboration through discourse using the Jigsaw Interactive Agent (JIA) (abstract)
PRESENTER: Peter Foltz
Hybrid Human AI Tutoring Technology (HAT) Demo (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sidney D'Mello
Intelligent Texts for Enhanced Lifelong Learning (iTELL) (abstract)
PRESENTER: Wesley Morris
Wednesday, February 5th

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17:00-18:00 Session 6: Features of Reading
Location: Alpine-Balsam
17:00
Detecting Unreliable Narration (abstract)
PRESENTER: Peter Dixon
17:20
Text comprehension in adults with cognitive and communicative disabilities (abstract)
17:40
Assessment of Elementary Students' Detection of Text Structure Inconsistencies (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lexi Elara
18:00-18:40 Session 7: Misinformation and Trust
Location: Alpine-Balsam
18:00
The contributions of prior topic beliefs and general reading comprehension skill to evaluating and writing about contradictory claims about childhood vaccines (abstract)
18:20
The Role of Trust in Science/Scientists on Belief in Information and Knowledge Revision: A Theoretical Framework (abstract)
PRESENTER: Victoria Johnson
18:40-19:00 Session 8: Winter Text Business Meeting: Discussing WT&D 2026 and Beyond

All are invited to discuss the conference and what we can do next year to make it even better! 

Location: Alpine-Balsam
19:00-21:00 Session 9: Closing Poster Session and Reception
Emotions and Multiple Document Comprehension: Static or Dynamic? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Varun Athilat
Agency in Reward Devaluation: Fear of Happiness and Feedback Selection (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mya Urena
Linguistic Analysis of Veteran Job Interviews to Assess Effectiveness in Translating Military Expertise to the Civilian Workforce (abstract)
Linguistic Alignment and Suspicion in 911 Calls (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nicholas Duran
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Analyzing Neurodivergent Learners’ Reading Interactions with Webcam Based Eye Tracking (abstract)
PRESENTER: Stephen Hutt
A Critical Discourse Analysis: News Media Portrayals of Gaza (abstract)
PRESENTER: Danielle Shariff
Examining the Robustness of Large Language Models by Language Complexity (abstract)
Collective Language: A Replication of Collective Narcissism using LLMs (abstract)
Modeling Susceptibility to Cognitive Attacks in Operational Teams (abstract)
PRESENTER: Emily Doherty
Dependency Bigrams as a Measure of Collocation Use in Learner Writing (abstract)