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AIED
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Politeness Effect: Pedagogical Agents and Learning Gains
Pedagogical agent research seeks to exploit Reeves and Nass’s Media Equation, which holds that users respond to interactive media as if they were social actors. Investigations ha...
Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Pao...
ITS
2010
Springer
166views Multimedia» more  ITS 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Socially Capable Conversational Tutors Can Be Effective in Collaborative Learning Situations
Tutorial Dialog has been shown to be effective in supporting both individual as well as group learners. However, unlike the case with individual learners, teams of learners often i...
Rohit Kumar, Hua Ai, Jack L. Beuth, Carolyn Penste...
AGI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Fusing Animals and Humans
AI has many techniques and tools at its disposal, yet seems to be lacking some special "juice" needed to create a true being. We propose that the missing ingredients are ...
Jonathan Connell
IADIS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
The Semantic + Pragmatic Web = The Semiotic Web
The desideratum for the concept of a semiotic web is proposed. It combines both the recent semantic web and the pragmatic web initiatives but surpasses them in being faithful to C...
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
SEMCO
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
LexPar: A Freely Available English Paraphrase Lexicon Automatically Extracted from FrameNet
—This is a paper about a new resource, namely an English paraphrase dictionary extracted from the FrameNet lexicon and its example data base. I. THE LEXPAR PARAPHRASE DICTIONARY ...
Bob Coyne, Owen Rambow