The Writing-Pal
Danielle S. McNamara, Roxanne B. Raine, Rod D. Roscoe, Scott A. Crossley, G. Tanner Jackson, Jianmin Dai, Zhiqiang Cai, Adam M. Renner, Russell Brandon, Jennifer L. Weston, Kyle B. Dempsey, Diana Carney, Susan Sullivan, Loel Kim, Vasile Rus, Randy Granville Floyd, Philip M. McCarthy, Arthur C. Graesser · IGI Global eBooks · 2012
The Writing-Pal (W-Pal) is an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that provides writing strategy instruction to high school students and entering college students. One unique quality of W-Pal is that it provides feedback to students’ natural language input. Thus, much of our focus during the W-Pal project has been on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP). This chapter describes W-Pal and various NLP projects geared toward providing automated feedback to students’ writing during writing strategy training and practice.