Reinforcement learning-based feature selection for developing pedagogically effective tutorial dialogue tactics

Educational Data Mining 2008 - 1st International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 258-265

  Chi, Min ^a   Jordan, Pamela ^a   Vanlehn, Kurt ^a   Hall, Moses ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; TUTORING DIALOGUES; TUTORING SYSTEM; UPPER-BOUND METHODS;

DATA MINING; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

TEACHING;

EID: 84857469933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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