About the Authors

Art Graesser is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His primary research interests are in cognitive science, discourse processing, and the learning sciences. More specific interests include knowledge representation, question asking and answering, tutoring, text comprehension, conversation, emotions, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics. He served as editor of the journals Discourse Processes (1996–2005) and Journal of Educational Psychology (2009–2014). His service in professional societies includes having been president of the Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media (1989–1992), the Society for Text and Discourse (2007–2010), the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education (2007–2009), and the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences Foundation (2012–2013). He and his colleagues have developed and tested software in learning, language, and discourse technologies, including those that hold a conversation in natural language and interact with multimedia (such as AutoTutor) and those that analyze text on multiple levels of language and discourse (Coh-Metrix and QUAID). He has served on four Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) expert panels on problem solving, including acting as chair of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 Collaborative Problem Solving.