An Intelligent English Teaching System for Humanoid Applications
Qizhi Yang, Yisheng Guan, Weinan Chen, Wangcheng Chen · 2023
With the popularization of educational robots in the field of subject education, primary and secondary school students’ expectation for educational robots has also risen from the ordinary robot doll companion learning to the educational application of humanoid robots, hoping to learn in class with humanoid robots. In order to meet students’ demand for humanoid robot teachers’ interaction ability and English teaching function, we developed a set of humanoid robot English teaching system for primary and middle school students. The system has three functional modules: automatic teaching, intelligent question-answering and oral practice. The automatic teaching module imitates the classroom teaching of human teachers, and intelligent question-answering can enable robot teachers to answer students’ questions based on texts, which can be applied to the humanoid robots independently developed in our laboratory. At the same time, since most of the public use subjective evaluation indicators for educational robots, we designed an evaluation data set for the system, and through the designed evaluation method, the rationality of the system’s automatic teaching function and the accuracy of the intelligent question-answering function were objectively verified.