Dialogue Systems in Education and Learning
A talk on dialogue interfaces for intelligent tutoring systems (ITS)
One-to-one tutoring has been shown to increase learning gain in
students because instruction can be adapted to the student's expertise.
Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) are computer programs that
adaptively provide students with exercise problems to solve and a
detailed feedback once they resolve the problems. However the interface
between the student and the system is restricted to GUI and therefore
detailed discussion on what went wrong in problem solving cannot be
discussed. Dialogue interfaces to tutoring systems resolves this
drawback and enables the student to have a conversation on the mistakes
he/she committed. In tutorial dialogue systems, the system interacts
with the students in natural language either spoken or typed. The
system and the student engage in a conversation after the student
presents a solution to the problem. In case of an incorrect solution,
the system helps the student to solve the problem by engaging the
student in a remediation dialogue by asking simpler questions and
giving clues. Such systems have been shown to be more effective than
its GUI counterparts. Can such systems be used to improve the learning
gain amongst students in India?
Speaker
Srinivasan
Janarthanam is a third year Ph.D student at the University of
Edinburgh, UK. He works in Spoken Dialogue Systems with focus on making
user adaptive systems. His Ph.D is supported by UK India Education Research
Initiative. Previously, he worked as a research associate in Amrita
Vishwa Vidyapeetam, Coimbatore on English-Tamil Machine Translation. He
did his M.Sc in Intelligent Systems from the University of Sussex, UK
and his B.E from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore. His other
interests are Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Indian languages,
application of NLP and Artificial Intelligence for education.
Time and Date
Friday, 12 June, 2009; 5.30-6.30 pm
Venue
Centre for Internet and Society, No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers, 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore - 560052
Map
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Event details
When
from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
