Architecture for building conversational agents that support collaborative learning

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-34

  Kumar, Rohit ^a   Rosé, Carolyn P ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; intelligent agents; natural language interfaces; software architectures

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL COMPONENT; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; DIALOG SYSTEMS; LEARNING TECHNOLOGY; MULTI-USER; MULTIPLE RESEARCH; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; OBJECT ORIENTED APPROACH; ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING; WORK FOCUS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84862833490     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2010.41     Document Type: Article

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