Despite empirical evidence that natural language dialog capabilities are necessary for the success of tutorial sessions, only few state-of-the-art tutoring systems use natural-language style interaction. Since domain knowledge, tutoring and pedagogical knowledge, and dialog management are tightly intertwined, the modeling and integration of proper natural language dialog capabilities in a tutor...

Despite its clarity and eloquence, Woodward’s wonderful book does not wear its virtues on its sleeve. You need the whole shirt. I aim to let those virtues show a bit more, and that requires some background to explain what Woodward has accomplished. Philosophical theories come chiefly in two flavors, Socratic and Euclidean. Socratic philosophical theories, whose paradigm is The Meno, advance an ...

1. Introduction Empirical evidence has shown that natural language (NL) dialogue capabilities are a crucial factor to making human explanations effective [6]. Moreover, the use of teaching strategies is an important ingredient for intelligent tutoring systems. Such strategies, normally called dialectic or socratic, have been demonstrated to be superior to pure explanations , especially regardin...