Evaluating the Effectiveness of SCoT: A Spoken Conversational Tutor
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SCoT is a tutorial dialogue system that engages students in natural language discussions through a speech interface. The current instantiation, SCoT-DC, is applied to the domain of shipboard damage control—the task of containing the effects of crises (e.g. fires) that occur aboard Navy vessels. This paper describes a recent evaluation of SCoT-DC and presents preliminary results showing: (1) the effectiveness of SCoT-DC as a learning tool, and (2) that speech recognition technology is mature enough to support use in tutorial dialogue systems.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004