There is a growing need for creating life-like virtual human simulations that can conduct a natural spoken dialog with a human student on a predefined subject. We present an over...
Anton Leuski, Jarrell Pair, David R. Traum, Peter ...
It seems obvious that a successful model of natural language would incorporate a great deal of both linguistic and world knowledge. Interestingly, state of the art language models...
Eric Brill, Radu Florian, John C. Henderson, Lidia...
This paper presents a novel Automatic Question Generation (AQG) approach that generates trigger questions as a form of support for students’ learning through writing. The approac...
We present an algorithm for pronounanaphora (in English) that uses Expectation Maximization (EM) to learn virtually all of its parameters in an unsupervised fashion. While EM freq...
Analyzing coverage of a student’s utterance or essay (completeness) and diagnosing errors (correctness) can be treated as a diagnosis problem and solved using a well-known techni...