Identifying science concepts and student misconceptions in an interactive essay writing tutor

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 12-21

  Bethard, Steven ^a   Okoye, Ifeyinwa ^a   Arafat Sultan, Md ^a   Hang, Haojie ^a   Martin, James H ^a   Sumner, Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STUDENTS;

ESSAY WRITINGS; STUDENT ESSAYS; STUDENT MISCONCEPTIONS; WEB-PAGE; WRITING TUTORS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 85006522682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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