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Zusatztext "...recommend this book to all researchers who are interested in explaining problem oriented human-human dialogues or who are interested in building and evaluating dialogue systems as one way of testing the generality of one's theories and systems....a guidebook for researchers who are interested in getting started in the area of dialogues for educational applications."—Computational Linguistics Informationen zum Autor Martha Evens, Joel Michael Klappentext "One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers "articulates the CIRCSIM-Tutor project! an attempt to develop a computer tutor that generates a natural language dialogue with a student. The editors present the educational context within which the proje Zusammenfassung One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers articulates the CIRCSIM-Tutor project, an attempt to develop a computer tutor that generates a natural language dialogue with a student. The editors present the educational context within which the proje Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface. Part I: Introduction. Origins of the CIRCSIM-Tutor Project. What's Being Tutored: The Domain and the Problem. Part II: Studies of Expert Human Tutors. The Collection and Analysis of Tutoring Transcripts. The Language Used by Tutors and Students. Domain Knowledge for Problem Solving and for Tutoring. Planning for Tutoring: What Is the Task to Be Accomplished? Carrying Out the Tutoring Task. Hinting as a Technique to Keep Students Active. A Tutoring Episode Analyzed. How Effective Are Human Tutors? Part III: Building CIRCSIM-Tutor: An Intelligent Tutoring System With Natural Language Capabilities. The Architecture of an Intelligent Tutoring System. Plans and Planning in the CIRCSIM-Tutor Project. Understanding the Student Input. Student Modeling. The Domain Knowledge Base and the Problem Solver. Generating Tutorial Dialogue. The Screen Manager. Part IV: What Have We Learned? CIRCSIM-Tutor in the Classroom. Machine Tutors and Natural Language. Where Do We All Go From Here? What We Have Learned. ...
