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AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating a Collaborative Constraint-based Tutor for UML Class Diagrams
COLLECT-UML is a collaborative constraint-based tutor for teaching object-oriented analysis and design using Unified Modelling Language. It is the first system in the family of con...
Nilufar Baghaei, Antonija Mitrovic
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Is Over Practice Necessary? - Improving Learning Efficiency with the Cognitive Tutor through Educational Data Mining
This study examined the effectiveness of an educational data mining method
Hao Cen, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Brian Junker
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Novel Tools for Assessing Student Discussions: Modeling threads and participant roles using speech act and course topic analysis
This paper describes new techniques for assessing pedagogical discourse via threaded discussions that are based on an analysis of speech acts and course topics. The context is an u...
Jihie Kim, Erin Shaw, Grace Chern, Roshan Herbert
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
'Tis Better to Construct than to Receive? The Effects of Diagram Tools on Causal Reasoning
Previous research on the use of diagrams for argumentation instruction has highlighted, but not conclusively demonstrated, their potential benefits. We examine the relative benefit...
Matthew W. Easterday, Vincent Aleven, Richard Sche...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Domain-Specific and Domain-Independent Interactive Behaviors in Andes
In this study, students studied two different domains in the same Intelligent Tutoring System, Andes. Analysis of 435 log files from 22 subjects indicated that there are two types ...
Min Chi, Kurt VanLehn
AI
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Executable Specifications of Fully General Attribute Grammars with Ambiguity and Left-Recursion
Abstract. A top-down parsing algorithm has been constructed to accommodate any form of ambiguous context-free grammar, augmented with semantic rules with arbitrary attribute depend...
Rahmatullah Hafiz
AI
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Performance Measures in Classification of Human Communications
This study emphasizes the importance of using appropriate measures in particular text classification settings. We focus on methods that evaluate how well a classifier performs. The...
Marina Sokolova, Guy Lapalme
AI
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Profit-Based Business Model for Evaluating Rule Interestingness
Different types of rules are mined from transaction databases often with the goal of improving sales and services. In this paper, we link the interestingness of rules with the cont...
Yaohua Chen, Yan Zhao, Yiyu Yao
AI
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
ICS: An Interactive Classification System
Abstract. Interactive data mining focuses on efficient and effective humancomputer interactions for data analysis purposes. An interactive system is an integration of a human user ...
Yan Zhao, Yiyu Yao, Mingwu Yan