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18 Mar 2024
Visual Data Science with Blockly-DS
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25 Sep 2023
Exploring the Relationship Between Usability and Cognitive Load in Data Science Education
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07 Jul 2023
Generating multiple choice questions from a textbook - LLMs match human performance on most metrics
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02 May 2023
Deeper learning through interactions with students in natural language
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03 Jan 2023
Computational Thinking through Modular Sound Synthesis
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20 Dec 2022
Scaffolding Computational Thinking Through Block Coding - A Learner Experience Design Study
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23 Aug 2022
Online Tutoring System (MoFaCTS) for Anatomy and Physiology - Implementation and Initial Impressions
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19 Aug 2022
Computational Thinking in Education - Past and Present
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07 Jul 2022
Generating Multiple Choice Questions with a Multi-Angle Question Answering Model
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24 Apr 2022
Assessing Readability by Filling Cloze Items with Transformers
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17 Apr 2022
Using community-based problems to increase motivation in a data science virtual internship
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04 Nov 2021
Datawhys Phase 1 - Problem Solving to Facilitate Data Science & STEM Learning Among Summer Interns
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20 Aug 2021
Special Issue on Creating and Improving Adaptive Learning - Smart Authoring Tools and Processes (IJAIED)
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27 Jun 2021
Sentence Selection for Cloze Item Creation - A Standardized Task and Preliminary Results
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09 Jun 2021
JupyterLab Extensions for Blocks Programming, Self-Explanations, and HTML Injection
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25 May 2021
Contextual Definition Generation
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05 Apr 2021
WikiMorph - Learning to Decompose Words into Morphological Structures
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05 Apr 2021
Paraphrasing Academic Text - A Study of Backtranslating Anatomy and Physiology with Transformers
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31 Mar 2021
Generating Response-Specific Elaborated Feedback Using Long-Form Neural Question Answering
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08 Mar 2021
Learning Data Science with Blockly in JupyterLab
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12 Jul 2020
Estimating the Effect of Social Distancing Interventions on COVID-19 in the United States
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06 Jul 2020
The Mobile Fact and Concept Textbook System (MoFaCTS)
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26 Dec 2019
A Cognitive Load Perspective on the Design of Blocks Languages for Data Science.
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01 Nov 2019
Semantic Representation and Analysis (SRA) and its Application in Conversion-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (CbITS)
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30 Sep 2019
Educational Technologies that Support Reading Comprehension for Adults Who Have Low Literacy Skills
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29 Nov 2018
ElectronixTutor - An adaptive learning platform with multiple resources
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27 Nov 2018
Using Novices to Scale Up Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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05 Nov 2018
Automatically Measuring Question Authenticity in Real-World Classrooms
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02 Nov 2018
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of AutoTutor
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20 Aug 2018
Graphical Supports for Collaboration - Constructing Shared Mental Models
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15 Jul 2018
An Open Vocabulary Approach for Detecting Authentic Questions in Classroom Discourse
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16 Apr 2018
ElectronixTutor - an intelligent tutoring system with multiple learning resources for electronics
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13 Apr 2018
SKOPE-IT (Shareable Knowledge Objects as Portable Intelligent Tutors) - overlaying natural language tutoring on an adaptive learning system for mathematics
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29 Aug 2017
Automated Assessment of Learner-Generated Natural Language Responses
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29 Aug 2017
Assessing Teacher Questions in Classrooms
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27 Jun 2017
Improving Reading Comprehension with Automatically Generated Cloze Item Practice
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26 Jun 2017
Tracking Online Reading of College Students
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25 Jun 2017
The Reading Ability of College Freshmen
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24 Jun 2017
Assessing the Dialogic Properties of Classroom Discourse - Proportion Models for Imbalanced Classes
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23 Jun 2017
Assessing Computer Literacy of Adults with Low Literacy Skills
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13 Mar 2017
Words matter - automatic detection of teacher questions in live classroom discourse using linguistics, acoustics, and context
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13 Mar 2017
Put your thinking cap on - Detecting cognitive load using EEG during learning
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22 Sep 2016
Multi-Sensor Modeling of Teacher Instructional Segments in Live Classrooms
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13 Sep 2016
Identifying Teacher Questions Using. Automatic Speech Recognition in Classrooms
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29 Jul 2016
Automatic Teacher Modeling from Live Classroom Audio
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15 Jul 2016
Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Volume 4 - Domain Modeling
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14 Jul 2016
Design and Construction of Domain Models
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29 Jun 2016
Semi-Automatic Detection of Teacher Questions from Human-Transcripts of Audio in Live Classrooms
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01 Jan 2016
Reading Comprehension Lessons in AutoTutor for the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
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18 Oct 2015
Bibtex Updated
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01 Jan 2015
Motion Tracker - Camera-Based Monitoring of Bodily Movements Using Motion Silhouettes
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01 Jan 2015
Evolution of reflexive signals using a realistic vocal tract model
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01 Jan 2015
Modeling Classroom Discourse - Do Models that Predict Dialogic Instruction Properties Generalize across Populations?
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01 Jan 2015
Attention in Educational Contexts - The Role of the Learning Task in Guiding Attention
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01 Jan 2015
Emerging Trends in Automated Authoring
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01 Jan 2015
Authoring Intelligent Tutoring Systems Using Human Computation - Designing for Intrinsic Motivation
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01 Jan 2015
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Integrating Natural Language Tutoring into an Existing Adaptive Learning System
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01 Jan 2015
Mind Wandering During Learning with an Intelligent Tutoring System
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01 Jan 2015
The Language of Instruction - Compensating for Challenge in Lectures
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01 Jan 2015
Multimodal Capture of Teacher-Student Interactions for Automated Dialogic Analysis in Live Classrooms
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01 Jan 2015
Breaking Off Engagement - Readers’ Disengagement as a Function of Reader and Text Characteristics
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01 Jan 2015
Moody Agents - Affect and Discourse During Learning in a Serious Game.
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01 Jan 2015
Automatic Classification of Question and Answer Discourse Segments from Teacher’s Speech in Classrooms
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01 Jan 2015
A Study of Automatic Speech Recognition in Noisy Classroom Environments for Automated Dialog Analysis
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01 Jan 2014
Domain independent assessment of dialogic properties of classroom discourse
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01 Jan 2014
Alignment Is a Function of Conversational Dynamics
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01 Jan 2014
Scaffolding Made Visible
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01 Jan 2014
Question classification in an epistemic game
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01 Jan 2014
Animated Presentation of Pictorial and Concept Map Media in Biology
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01 Jan 2013
A review of student models used in intelligent tutoring systems
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01 Jan 2013
XNAgent - Authoring embodied conversational agents for tutor-user interfaces
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01 Jan 2013
Symbolic, indexical, and iconic communication with domestic dogs
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01 Jan 2013
Predicting film genres with implicit ideals
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01 Jan 2013
Matching learner models to instructional strategies
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01 Jan 2013
Affect, meta-affect, and affect regulation during complex learning
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01 Jan 2013
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining
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01 Jan 2012
Interactive Concept Maps and Learning Outcomes in Guru
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01 Jan 2012
Facilitating Co-adaptation of Technology and Education through the Creation of an Open-source Repository of Interoperable Code
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01 Jan 2012
Guru - Designing a Conversational Expert Intelligent Tutoring System
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01 Jan 2012
Question Generation from Concept Maps
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01 Jan 2012
The World within Wikipedia - An Ecology of Mind
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01 Jan 2012
Guru - A Computer Tutor that Models Expert Human Tutors
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01 Jan 2012
Practical Programming for NLP
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01 Jan 2012
AutoTutor
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01 Jan 2012
Gaze Tutor - A Gaze-Reactive Intelligent Tutoring System
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01 Jan 2011
Nonverbal Action Selection for Explanations Using an Enhanced Behavior Net
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01 Jan 2011
Evidence for alignment in a computer-mediated text-only environment
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01 Jan 2011
Student speech act classification using machine learning
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01 Jan 2011
Large-scale latent semantic analysis
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01 Jan 2011
Generating Concept Map Exercises from Textbooks
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01 Jan 2011
Intelligent tutoring systems
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01 Jan 2011
Building rapport with a 3D conversational agent
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01 Jan 2010
Fast Parallel Topic Model - C# source code
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01 Jan 2010
Tutorial Dialog in Natural Language
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01 Jan 2010
Likability-based genres - Analysis and evaluation of the netflix dataset
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01 Jan 2010
Extraction of concept maps from textbooks for domain modeling
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01 Jan 2010
A DIY pressure sensitive chair for intelligent tutoring systems
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01 Jan 2010
Off topic conversation in expert tutoring - Waste of time or learning opportunity?
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01 Jan 2010
Individual differences as predictors of learning and engagement
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01 Jan 2010
Mining collaborative patterns in tutorial dialogues
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01 Jan 2010
Collaborative lecturing by human and computer tutors
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01 Jan 2010
Tutor me elmo - Improving engagement and learning gains in intelligent tutoring systems with a robotic interface
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01 Jan 2010
An exploration of off topic conversation
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01 Jan 2010
Using topic models to bridge coding schemes of differing granularity
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01 Jan 2009
Gnututor - An open source intelligent tutoring
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01 Jan 2009
Gnututor - An open source intelligent tutoring system
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01 Jan 2009
Generalizing latent semantic analysis
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01 Jan 2007
Distributional statistics and thematic role relationships
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01 Jan 2007
When are tutorial dialogues more effective than reading?
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01 Jan 2007
Toward socially intelligent interviewing systems
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01 Jan 2007
Semantic heads for grammar induction
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01 Jan 2007
Multi-robot dispatch
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01 Jan 2007
Latent semantic grammar induction - Context, projectivity, and prior distributions
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01 Jan 2007
Dialogue generation for robotic portraits
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01 Jan 2007
Inference generation and cohesion in the construction of situation models - Some connections with computational linguistics
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01 Jan 2006
Minimum Spanning Tree - C# source code
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01 Jan 2006
Unsupervised induction of latent semantic grammars with application to parsing
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01 Jan 2006
AutoTutor 3-D Simulations - Analyzing user’s actions and learning trends
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01 Jan 2005
When is reading just as effective as one-on-one interactive tutoring?
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01 Jan 2005
Engineering Agent-Based Software Systems
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01 Jan 2005
An orthonormal basis for topic segmentation in tutorial dialogue
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01 Jan 2005
An orthonormal basis for entailment
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01 Jan 2005
The effectiveness of computer simulations in a computer based learning environment
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01 Jan 2005
Computer simulation as an instructional technology in AutoTutor
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01 Jan 2005
Upending the uncanny valley
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01 Jan 2005
AutoTutor’s coverage of expectations during tutorial dialogue
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01 Jan 2005
AutoTutor - A cognitive system that simulates a tutor that facilitates learning through mixed-initiative dialogue
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01 Jan 2005
AutoTutor - An intelligent tutoring system with mixed-initiative dialogue
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01 Jan 2005
The AutoTutor 3 architecture - A software architecture for an expandable, high-availability ITS
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01 Jan 2004
The context dependent sentence abstraction model
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01 Jan 2004
A framework of synthesizing tutoring conversation capability with web based distance education courseware
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01 Jan 2004
AutoTutor - A tutor with dialogue in natural language
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01 Jan 2003
Utterance classification in AutoTutor
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01 Jan 2003
Achieving domain independence in AutoTutor
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01 Jan 2003
Modeling student performance to enhance the pedagogy of AutoTutor
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01 Jan 2003
A Revised Algorithm for Latent Semantic Analysis
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01 Jan 2003
AutoTutor improves deep learning of computer literacy - Is it the dialog or the talking head?
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01 Jan 2003
Why/AutoTutor - A test of learning gains from a physics tutor with natural language dialog
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01 Jan 2002
AutoTutor - A conversational tutoring environment
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01 Jan 2002
AutoTutor’s log files and categories of language and discourse
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01 Jan 2002
Good computational manners - Mixed-initiative dialog in conversational agents
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01 Jan 2002
Implementing latent semantic analysis in learning environments with conversational agents and tutorial dialog
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