The Beetle and BeeDiff Tutoring Systems
Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology for Education (SLaTE)
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2007Author
Callaway, Charles
Dzikovska, Myroslava
Farrow, Elaine
Marques-Pita, Manuel
Matheson, Colin
Moore, Johanna D.
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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.