Assessing forward-, reverse-, and average-entailer indices on natural language input from the Intelligent Tutoring System, iSTART

Proceedings of the 21th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS-21

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 165-170

  McCarthy, Philip M ^a   Rus, Vasile ^a   Crossley, Scott A ^a   Graesser, Arthur C ^a   McNamara, Danielle S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE INPUTS; NEW INDICES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 55849112976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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