Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue: Issues and Agents

MERL Report:  TR2000-37
Where Published: Published in AAAI Fall Symposium on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications, Technical Report FS-00-01, November 2000, pages 52-57.

Towards our goal of developing computer tutors that can collaborate with students on tasks in simulated environments, we have built a series of four prototype tutors. These tutors integrate two independent but related strands of research: intelligent tutoring systems and task-oriented dialogue systems. While the tutors share a core approach to teaching procedural tasks, each was designed to explore a different set of issues.

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