Enhancing the effectiveness of spoken dialogue for STEM education
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This talk will discuss the application of speech and language processing to two types of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) dialogue applications: 1) one-on-one physics tutoring, where students engage in dialogues with either a computer or human tutor, and 2) engineering design, where students engage in multi-party dialogue to complete a group project. I will first present results illustrating that relationships exist between student learning and both student affect, as well as lexical/prosodic entrainment between conversational partners. I will then illustrate our use of such findings to build better educational dialogue systems.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013