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Rus, Vasile; Moldovan, Cristian; Niraula, Nobal; Graesser, Arthur C. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2012
In this paper we address the important task of automated discovery of speech act categories in dialogue-based, multi-party educational games. Speech acts are important in dialogue-based educational systems because they help infer the student speaker's intentions (the task of speech act classification) which in turn is crucial to providing adequate…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Feedback (Response), Classification, Expertise
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Frazier, Lyn; Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Stolterfoht, Britta – Cognition, 2008
Gradable adjectives denote a function that takes an object and returns a measure of the degree to which the object possesses some gradable property [Kennedy, C. (1999). Projecting the adjective: The syntax and semantics of gradability and comparison. New York: Garland]. Scales, ordered sets of degrees, have begun to be studied systematically in…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages)