Profiling Student Interactions in Threaded Discussions with Speech Act Classifiers

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 158, Issue , 2007, Pages 357-364

  Ravi, Sujith ^a   Kim, Jihie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

discussion assessment; On line discussion board; speech act

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS;

AUTOMATIC TOOLS; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; DISCUSSION ASSESSMENT; DISCUSSION BOARDS; ON-LINE DISCUSSION BOARD; SPEECH ACT CLASSIFIERS; SPEECH ACTS; STUDENT INTERACTIONS; THREADED DISCUSSIONS; WEB-BASED COMPUTER;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 80051879783     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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