Recognizing young readers' spoken questions

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 255-269

  Chen, Wei ^a   Mostow, Jack ^a   Aist, Gregory ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children's reading; comprehension strategy instruction; Intelligent tutoring system; language modeling; predictable response training; Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor; question generation; spoken dialogue system

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN'S READING; COMPREHENSION STRATEGY INSTRUCTION; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; LANGUAGE MODELING; QUESTION GENERATION; READING TUTORS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

TEACHING;

EID: 84880200529     PISSN: 15604292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAI-130031     Document Type: Article

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