Personalized intelligent english vocabulary learning system based on item response theory and learning memory cycle

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3828-3833

  Chen, Chih Ming ^a   Chung, Ching Ju ^b   Chen, Ming Chuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LINGUISTICS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

ENGLISH VOCABULARY; VOCABULARY LEARNING SYSTEM;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548134068     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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