Bringing chatbots into education: Towards natural language negotiation of open learner models

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-185

  Kerly, Alice ^a   Hall, Phil ^b   Bull, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Elzware Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chatbots; Conversational agents; Learner modelling; Natural language; Negotiation

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS;

CHATBOTS; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; LEARNER MODELLING; NEGOTIATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847170368     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2006.11.014     Document Type: Article

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