Inferring Tutorial Dialogue Structure with Hidden Markov Modeling

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 19-26

  Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth ^a   Ha, Eun Young ^a   Phillips, Robert ^a,b   Wallis, Michael D ^a,b   Vouk, Mladen A ^a   Lester, James C ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Family Health International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS; BEST FIT; CORPUS-BASED; DIALOG ACTS; DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; INPUT SEQUENCE; MANAGEMENT MODEL;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 85122870070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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