Proposal for a conversational English tutoring system that encourages user engagement

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 10-12

  Mazur, Michal ^a   Rzepka, Rafal ^a   Araki, Kenji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Code mixing; Emotion recognition; Human computer interaction; Natural language processing; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

CODE-MIXING; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; EMOTION RECOGNITION; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; KEY FEATURE; MODERN TIME; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; TUTORING SYSTEM; USER ENGAGEMENT; USER INTERACTION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84860475858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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