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NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
An Exploration of Off Topic Conversation
In a corpus of expert tutoring dialogue, conversation that is considered to be "off topic" (non-pedagogical) according to a previous coding scheme is explored for its va...
Whitney L. Cade, Blair Lehman, Andrew Olney
ITS
2010
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
Persuasive Dialogues in an Intelligent Tutoring System for Medical Diagnosis
Being able to argue with a student to convince her or him about the rationale of tutoring hints is an important component of pedagogy. In this paper we present an argumentation fra...
Amin Rahati, Froduald Kabanza
TSMC
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
On the development of a cooperative tutoring environment on computer networks
Abstract--In developing a tutoring system, one of the most difficult tasks is to collect tutoring knowledge from multiple educators, especially courses in which the contents change...
Gwo-Jen Hwang
AIEDU
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Explicit Reflection in Prolog-Tutor
This paper describes a reflection-based approach for open learner modeling (OLM). Tutoring dialogues are used by learners to explicitly reveal their own knowledge state to themselv...
Joséphine M. P. Tchétagni, Roger Nka...
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Dialogue-Based Tutoring System for Beginning Programming
We present a preventive model of tutoring for novice programming derived from a human corpus and describe our intelligent tutoring system PROPL embodying that model. The system co...
H. Chad Lane, Kurt VanLehn
ICCE
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Enriching Solution Space for Robustness in an Intelligent Tutoring System
: Intelligent tutoring systems assist medical faculty in training and equipping students with the required clinical reasoning skills. Plausible student solutions to a given problem...
Hameedullah Kazi, Peter Haddawy, Siriwan Suebnukar...
EDM
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Off Topic Conversation in Expert Tutoring: Waste of Time or Learning Opportunity
While many aspects of tutoring have been identified and studied, off topic conversation has been largely ignored. In this paper, off topic conversation during 50 hours of one-to-on...
Blair Lehman, Whitney L. Cade, Andrew Olney
ADS
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Affective Feedback in a Tutoring System for Procedural Tasks
We discuss the affective aspects of tutoring dialogues in an ITS -called INES- that helps students to practice nursing tasks using a haptic device and a virtual environment. Specia...
Dirk Heylen, Maarten Vissers, Rieks op den Akker, ...
ITS
1998
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
The Foundations and Architecture of Autotutor
The Tutoring Research Group at the University of Memphis is developing an intelligent tutoring system which takes advantages of recent technological advances in the areas of semant...
Peter M. Wiemer-Hastings, Arthur C. Graesser, Dere...
ITS
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Learning by Teaching SimStudent
The purpose of the current study was to test whether we could create a system where students can learn by teaching a live machine-learning agent. SimStudent is a computer agent tha...
Noboru Matsuda, Victoria Keiser, Rohan Raizada, Ga...