Paul Deane
Biographic Data
| ID | 3842610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Deane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Deane |
| SIGNATURE | DEANE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Educational Testing Service |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4681-7791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toward an Automatic Method for Generating Topical Vocabulary Test Forms for Specific Reading Passages
Background knowledge is typically needed for successful comprehension of topical and domain-specific reading passages, such as in the STEM domains. However, there are few automated measures of student knowledge that can be readily deployed and scored in time to make predictions on whether a given student will likely be able to understand a specific content-area text. In this research report, we present our effort in developing the K-tool, an auto…
Young L2 students’ use of an AI-assisted writing assessment and feedback tool: An exploratory study in multiple settings
Extracting interpretable writing traits from a large language model
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support automated writing evaluation (AWE), both for purposes of scoring and feedback. However, LLMs present challenges to interpretability, making it hard to evaluate the construct validity of scoring and feedback models. BIOT (best interpretable orthogonal transformations) is a new method of analysis that makes dimensions of an embedding interpretable by aligning them with external predictor…
Exploring linguistic characteristics across Cefr writing levels and their relationships with student backgrounds
This study attempted to identify significant linguistic features that distinguish across CEFR writing levels. The sample included essays from 959 German-speaking EFL students on two tasks: an Independent argumentative task and an Integrated summarizing task. Using natural language processing tools, 19 linguistic features encompassing fluency, lexical, syntactic, and cohesion dimensions were extracted and analyzed through ANOVAs and post-hoc tests…
Exploring the Relationship Between Plan Features and Argument Essay Performance
We conducted a post hoc analysis of 771 students’ argumentative writing plans and essays in the Criterion ® database, a digital writing tool, to explore the relations among plan features, essay quality, and writing traits. Students in the study were in Grades 5 to 10 from 68 schools. We found that older students produced writing plans that received higher scores and demonstrated greater genre-specific knowledge than younger students, but regardle…
Unveiling Patterns of Interaction With Automated Feedback in Writing Mentor and Their Relationships With Use Goals and Writing Outcomes
Mapping of American English vocabulary by grade levels
We describe a large-scale effort to map English-language vocabulary by U.S. school grade levels. Our motivation is to rapidly expand graded vocabulary resources for work with native English speakers in the USA, while taking into consideration school-related influences rather than relying on just the corpus-frequency approaches. We report on the initial effort of data collection, with mapping of about 22K word forms. We provide comparisons of this…
On Jackendoff's conceptual semantics
Preposition Stranding: From Syntactic to Functional Analyses
Metaphors of center and periphery in Yeats' The Second Coming
On Metaphoric Inversion
This article examines examples of metaphoric inversion, pairs of conceptual metaphors that employ the same metaphoric mapping but exhibit reversed topic-vehicle orientation. This phenomenon includes such pairs as ''PEOPLE ARE COMPUTERS'' versus ''COMPUTERS ARE PEOPLE''. It is an unusual phenomenon because the usual effect of reversing a metaphor is anomaly or a complete shift in the metaphor's conceptual ground. Analysis suggests an underlying as…
Psychology of Language: An Introduction to Sentence and Discourse Processes
Preface 1 Introduction 2 Language and meaning: representing and remembering discourse 3 Syntax and parsing processes 4 The role of knowledge in language comprehension 5 Understanding coherent discourse 6 Theme 7 Inference processes 8 Understanding stories 9 Question answering and sentence verification 10 Natural language understanding by computers - and people References Author index Subject index Acknowledgments
Limits to attention: A cognitive theory of island phenomena
Syntactic island constraints are generally viewed as paradigmatic evidence for the autonomy of syntax. However, the existence of exceptions has been known for some time. Close examination reveals that these exceptional phenomena resist purely syntactic explanations, requiring instead an account in terms of semantic relations like attribution, various kinds of semantic framing effects, and discourse variables like topic and focus. It will be argue…
Working with Analogical Semantics: Disambiguation Techniques in DLT
Black Characters in Children's Fiction Series Since 1968
A 1968 study by the author reached a necessarily bleak conclusion about the image of Blacks in various children's fiction series: Except for removing dialect, the series books are maintaining the traditional image of the Negro.1 During the almost quarter of a century since that study, entitled Persistence of Uncle Tom, the picture has changed. Whether that change has been for the better or worse depends upon the degree of one's willingness to equ…
English Possessives, Topicality, and the Silverstein Hierarchy
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 65-76
Limits to attention: A cognitive theory of island phenomena
Syntactic island constraints are generally viewed as paradigmatic evidence for the autonomy of syntax. However, the existence of exceptions has been known for some time. Close examination reveals that these exceptional phenomena resist purely syntactic explanations, requiring instead an account in terms of semantic relations like attribution, various kinds of semantic framing effects, and discourse variables like topic and focus. It will be argue…
Metaphors of center and periphery in Yeats' The Second Coming
On Jackendoff's conceptual semantics
English Possessives, Topicality, and the Silverstein Hierarchy
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 65-76
Black Characters in Children's Fiction Series Since 1968
A 1968 study by the author reached a necessarily bleak conclusion about the image of Blacks in various children's fiction series: Except for removing dialect, the series books are maintaining the traditional image of the Negro.1 During the almost quarter of a century since that study, entitled Persistence of Uncle Tom, the picture has changed. Whether that change has been for the better or worse depends upon the degree of one's willingness to equ…
Limits to attention: A cognitive theory of island phenomena
Syntactic island constraints are generally viewed as paradigmatic evidence for the autonomy of syntax. However, the existence of exceptions has been known for some time. Close examination reveals that these exceptional phenomena resist purely syntactic explanations, requiring instead an account in terms of semantic relations like attribution, various kinds of semantic framing effects, and discourse variables like topic and focus. It will be argue…
Working with Analogical Semantics: Disambiguation Techniques in DLT
Psychology of Language: An Introduction to Sentence and Discourse Processes
Preface 1 Introduction 2 Language and meaning: representing and remembering discourse 3 Syntax and parsing processes 4 The role of knowledge in language comprehension 5 Understanding coherent discourse 6 Theme 7 Inference processes 8 Understanding stories 9 Question answering and sentence verification 10 Natural language understanding by computers - and people References Author index Subject index Acknowledgments
On Metaphoric Inversion
This article examines examples of metaphoric inversion, pairs of conceptual metaphors that employ the same metaphoric mapping but exhibit reversed topic-vehicle orientation. This phenomenon includes such pairs as ''PEOPLE ARE COMPUTERS'' versus ''COMPUTERS ARE PEOPLE''. It is an unusual phenomenon because the usual effect of reversing a metaphor is anomaly or a complete shift in the metaphor's conceptual ground. Analysis suggests an underlying as…
Preposition Stranding: From Syntactic to Functional Analyses
Metaphors of center and periphery in Yeats' The Second Coming
On Jackendoff's conceptual semantics
Mapping of American English vocabulary by grade levels
We describe a large-scale effort to map English-language vocabulary by U.S. school grade levels. Our motivation is to rapidly expand graded vocabulary resources for work with native English speakers in the USA, while taking into consideration school-related influences rather than relying on just the corpus-frequency approaches. We report on the initial effort of data collection, with mapping of about 22K word forms. We provide comparisons of this…
Unveiling Patterns of Interaction With Automated Feedback in Writing Mentor and Their Relationships With Use Goals and Writing Outcomes
Toward an Automatic Method for Generating Topical Vocabulary Test Forms for Specific Reading Passages
Background knowledge is typically needed for successful comprehension of topical and domain-specific reading passages, such as in the STEM domains. However, there are few automated measures of student knowledge that can be readily deployed and scored in time to make predictions on whether a given student will likely be able to understand a specific content-area text. In this research report, we present our effort in developing the K-tool, an auto…
Young L2 students’ use of an AI-assisted writing assessment and feedback tool: An exploratory study in multiple settings
Extracting interpretable writing traits from a large language model
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support automated writing evaluation (AWE), both for purposes of scoring and feedback. However, LLMs present challenges to interpretability, making it hard to evaluate the construct validity of scoring and feedback models. BIOT (best interpretable orthogonal transformations) is a new method of analysis that makes dimensions of an embedding interpretable by aligning them with external predictor…
Exploring linguistic characteristics across Cefr writing levels and their relationships with student backgrounds
This study attempted to identify significant linguistic features that distinguish across CEFR writing levels. The sample included essays from 959 German-speaking EFL students on two tasks: an Independent argumentative task and an Integrated summarizing task. Using natural language processing tools, 19 linguistic features encompassing fluency, lexical, syntactic, and cohesion dimensions were extracted and analyzed through ANOVAs and post-hoc tests…
Exploring the Relationship Between Plan Features and Argument Essay Performance
We conducted a post hoc analysis of 771 students’ argumentative writing plans and essays in the Criterion ® database, a digital writing tool, to explore the relations among plan features, essay quality, and writing traits. Students in the study were in Grades 5 to 10 from 68 schools. We found that older students produced writing plans that received higher scores and demonstrated greater genre-specific knowledge than younger students, but regardle…
Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Writing and Handwriting Education (5 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Argumentative (2 works)