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Cai, Zhiqiang; Hu, Xiangen; Graesser, Arthur C. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) are expensive to develop. While simple online courseware could be easily authored by teachers, the authoring of conversational ITSs usually involves a team of experts with different expertise, including domain experts, linguists, instruction designers, programmers, artists, computer scientists,…
Descriptors: Programming, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Courseware, Educational Technology
Cai, Zhiqiang; Gong, Yan; Qiu, Qizhi; Hu, Xiangen; Graesser, Art – Grantee Submission, 2016
AutoTutor uses conversational intelligent agents in learning environments. One of the major challenges in developing AutoTutor applications is to assess students' natural language answers to AutoTutor questions. We investigated an AutoTutor dataset with 3358 student answers to 49 AutoTutor questions. In comparisons with human ratings, we found…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Processing, Dialogs (Language), Programming
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Zilio, Leonardo; Wilkens, Rodrigo; Fairon, Cédrick – Research-publishing.net, 2017
Presentation of raw text to language learners is not enough to ensure learning. Thus, we present the Smart and Immersive Language Learning Environment (SMILLE), a system that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for enhancing grammatical information in texts chosen by a given user. The enhancements, carried out by means of text highlighting, are…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Second Language Instruction