Capturing the evolution of grammatical knowledge in a CALL System for deaf learners of english

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-97

  Michaud, Lisa N ^a   McCoy, Kathleen F ^b  

^a WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

CALL; Intelligent Tutoring Systems; Natural language processing; Student modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013580150     PISSN: 15604292     EISSN: 15604306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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