Using dialogue to learn math in the LeActiveMath project
Charles B. Callaway, Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Colin Matheson, Johanna D. Moore, Claus Zinn · Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) · 2006
We describe a tutorial dialogue system under development that assists students in learning how to differentiate equations.The system uses deep natural language understanding and generation to both interpret students' utterances and automatically generate a response that is both mathematically correct and adapted pedagogically and linguistically to the local dialogue context.A domain reasoner provides the necessary knowledge about how students should approach math problems as well as their (in)correctness, while a dialogue manager directs pedagogical strategies and keeps track of what needs to be done to keep the dialogue moving along.