NLP Summary

Guru

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A computer tutor models the strategies
and dialogue of expert human tutors.

http://sites.google.com/site/graesserart/projects/guru

Aries

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Conversations with animated pedagogical agent.

http://sites.google.com/site/graesserart/projects/aries

Agent Technologies
Designed to Facilitate
Interactive Knowledge
Construction

Conversation

Auto Tutor's dialogue includes feedback, pumping for more information, etc.

Discourse Processes, Vol. 45

Assessing Student
Self-Explanations in an
Inteligent Tutoring System

Sentences

Entailment approach to textual analysis.

Rus, Graesser, McCarthy, ...
(from conference)

Cycle Talk

Conversation

Computer-supported collaborated learning environment.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose/CycleTalk.html

Tag Helper

Conversation

Filters "listen in" on student conversations to montor.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose/TagHelper.html

SIDE

Data

Machine-learning model facilitate getting a quick sense of text data.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose/SIDE.html

Tutalk

Dialogue

Builds dialogue-base help for a tutoring system.

http://www.learnlab.org/technologies/tutalk/index.php

Analyzing Collab. Learning
Processes Automatically

Text

Capture patterns that are more complex than what is isolated words.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose/pubweb/Publications.html

Tools for Authoring a Dialogue Agent that
Participates in Learning Studies

Dialogue

Uses Tutalk to provide the infrastructure for testing hypotheses about dialogue.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose/pubweb/Publications.html

IADE - Intellectual Academic Discourse Evaluation

Sentences

Compare papers with others in the same discipline and provide feedback.

http://www.npendar.info/contributions

Automatic Identification of Discourse Moves in Scientific Article Introductions

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Uses NLP to evaluate text organization, limited to 5-paragraph essay format, thesis & topic sentences.

http://www.npendar.info/contributions