Discourse Generation for Instructional Applications: Identifying and Exploiting Relevant Prior Explanations

Journal of the Learning Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-94

  Moore, Johanna D ^a   Lemaire, Benoît ^b   Rosenblum, James A ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

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EID: 0030549750     PISSN: 10508406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327809jls0501_3     Document Type: Article

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