NLP Summary

This summary provides brief descriptions and links to other software tools that have similar goals to the goal of ThinkSpace. We welcome suggested additions!

Name of Project

Type of Text Entered

Description of Method

Researcher Links

Guru

Paragraph

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

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

Aries

Paragraph

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

Paragraph

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

http://www.npendar.info/contributions