An intelligent discussion-bot for guiding student interactions in threaded discussions

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn SS-07-04, Issue , 2007, Pages 66-71

  Kim, Jihie ^a   Shaw, Erin ^a   Chern, Grace ^a   Feng, Donghui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

AUTOMATIC SCAFFOLDING; CHAT FACILITIES; COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 37349015555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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