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Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2007-present.
Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER), Carnegie Mellon University, 2007-present.
Siebel Scholarship, 2007.
Reilly Scholarship, University of Notre Dame, 2005.
Tree edit models for semantic tasks such as recognizing textual entailment (2009-present)
Automatic Question Generation (2008-present)
RAVINE (2008-present)
REAP (2005-2008)
Readability Prediction (2005-2008)
M. Heilman and N. A. Smith. 2009. Ranking automatically generated questions as a shared task. In Proc. of the 2nd Workshop of Question Generation. [PDF]
M. Heilman and N. A. Smith. 2009. Question Generation via Overgenerating Transformations and Ranking. Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report CMU-LTI-09-013. [PDF]
N. A. Smith, M. Heilman, and R. Hwa. 2008. Question generation as a competitive undergraduate course project. In Proc. of the Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge. [PDF]
M. Heilman and M. Eskenazi. 2008. Self-assessment in vocabulary tutoring. In Proc. of the Young Researcher's Track. Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. [PDF]
C. Feeney and M. Heilman. 2008. Automatically generating and validating reading-check questions. In Proc. of the Young Researcher's Track. Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. [PDF]
J. Pino, M. Heilman, and M. Eskenazi. 2008. A selection strategy to improve cloze question quality. In Proc. of the Workshop of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Ill-Defined Domains. Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring System [PDF]
M. Heilman, K. Collins-Thompson, and M. Eskenazi. 2008. An analysis of statistical models and features for reading difficulty prediction. In Proc. of The 3rd Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. [PDF]
M. Heilman, L. Zhao, J. Pino, and M. Eskenazi. 2008. Retrieval of reading materials for vocabulary and reading practice. In Proc. of the 3rd Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. [PDF]
M. Heilman and M. Eskenazi. 2007. Application of automatic thesaurus extraction for computer generation of vocabulary questions. In Proc. of the SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education. [PDF]
M. Heilman, A. Juffs, and M. Eskenazi. 2007. Choosing reading passages for vocabulary learning by topic to increase intrinsic motivation. In Proc. of AIED. [PDF]
M. Heilman, K. Collins-Thompson, J. Callan, and M. Eskenazi. 2007. Combining lexical and grammatical features to improve readability measures for first and second language texts. In Proc. NAACL-HLT. [PDF]
M. Heilman, K. Collins-Thompson, J. Callan, and M. Eskenazi. 2006. Classroom success of an intelligent tutoring system for lexical practice and reading comprehension. In Proc. of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. [PDF]
M. Heilman and M. Eskenazi. 2006. Language learning: Challenges for intelligent tutoring systems. In Proc. of the Workshop of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Ill-Defined Tutoring Systems. Eight International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. [PDF]
K. M. Eberhard, M. Scheutz, and M. Heilman. 2005. An empirical and computational test of linguistic relativity. In Proc. of the Cognitive Science Society Conference.
