The Beetle and BeeDiff Tutoring Systems

Charles B. Callaway; Myroslava O. Dzikovska; Elaine Farrow; Manuel Marques-Pita; Colin Matheson; Johanna D. Moore

The Beetle and BeeDiff Tutoring Systems

Charles B. Callaway, Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Elaine Farrow, Manuel Marques-Pita, Colin Matheson, Johanna D. Moore

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Abstract

We describe two tutorial dialogue systems that adapt techniques from task-oriented dialogue systems to tutorial dialogue. Both systems employ the same reusable deep natural language understanding and generation components to interpret students' written utterances and to automatically generate adaptive tutorial responses, with separate domain reasoners to provide the necessary knowledge about the correctness of student answers and hinting strategies. We focus on integrating the domain-independent language processing components with domain-specific reasoning and tutorial components in order to improve the dialogue interaction, and present a preliminary analysis of BeeDiff's evaluation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education
Place of Publication	Farmington
Publisher	Carnegie Mellon University and ISCA Archive
Pages	92-95
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - Oct 2007
Event	SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education - Farmington, Pennsylvania, United States Duration: 1 Oct 2007 → 3 Oct 2007

Conference

Conference	SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education
Country	United States
City	Farmington, Pennsylvania
Period	1/10/07 → 3/10/07

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Callaway, CB, Dzikovska, MO, Farrow, E, Marques-Pita, M, Matheson, C & Moore, JD 2007, The Beetle and BeeDiff Tutoring Systems. in SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education. Carnegie Mellon University and ISCA Archive, Farmington, pp. 92-95, SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, Farmington, Pennsylvania, United States, 1/10/07. <http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccallawa/papers/slate2007.pdf>

The Beetle and BeeDiff Tutoring Systems. / Callaway, Charles B.; Dzikovska, Myroslava O.; Farrow, Elaine; Marques-Pita, Manuel; Matheson, Colin; Moore, Johanna D.

SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education. Farmington : Carnegie Mellon University and ISCA Archive, 2007. p. 92-95.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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