|
|
Article: Intelligent tutoring systems with conversational dialogue. (Articles).
- Article from:
- AI Magazine
- Article date:
- December 22, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 American Association for Artificial Intelligence. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) are clearly one of the successful enterprises in AI. There is a long list of ITSs that have been tested on humans and have proven to facilitate learning. There are well-tested tutors of algebra, geometry, and computer languages (such as PACT [Koedinger et al. 1997]); physics (such as ANDES [Gertner and VanLehn 2000; VanLehn 1996]); and electronics (such as SHERLOCK [Lesgold et al. 1992]). These ITSs use a variety of computational modules that are familiar to those of us in the world of AI: production systems, Bayesian networks, schema templates, theorem proving, and explanatory reasoning. According to the current estimates, the arsenal ...