Motivate the learners to practice english through playing with chatbot CSIEC

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5093 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 180-191

  Jia, Jiyou ^a   Chen, Weichao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chatting; CSIEC; English Learning; Motivation; Playing; Scoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; E-LEARNING; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; TAXONOMIES; TECHNOLOGY;

CHATTING; CSIEC; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT; EDUTAINMENT; ENGLISH LEARNING; FLOW DIAGRAMS; HUMAN-COMPUTER; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; INTERNET USAGE; MOTIVATION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PLAYING; SCORING; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM STRUCTURES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 48249147462     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69736-7_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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