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Designing a Tutoring Agent for Facilitating Collaborative Learning with Instant Messaging

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2006)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 4053))

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In this study, we propose a tutoring agent that uses MSN Messenger, a popular synchronous internet media, as the communication platform. Students can invite the agent to a discussion session on MSN Messenger. The agent understands the students’ questions in natural language, and provides answers or hints during the group discussion. Unlike a traditional natural language tutoring agent that converses with one student at a time, our agent needs to work with a group of students in MSN chat.

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering Science and Technology,  

    Sheng-Cheng Hsu

  2. Graduate School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan

    Wing-Kwong Wong

  3. Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

    Min-Yuh Day & Wen-Lian Hsu

  4. Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

    Min-Yuh Day

  5. Department of CSIE, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

    Shih-Hung Wu

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  1. JAIST, 1-1, Asahi-dai, Nomi, 923-1292, Ishikawa, Japan

    Mitsuru Ikeda

  2. Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Kevin D. Ashley

  3. Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, 300, Jhongda Rd., 32001, Jhongli City,Taoyuan County, Taiwan

    Tak-Wai Chan

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Hsu, SC., Day, MY., Wu, SH., Wong, WK., Hsu, WL. (2006). Designing a Tutoring Agent for Facilitating Collaborative Learning with Instant Messaging. In: Ikeda, M., Ashley, K.D., Chan, TW. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4053. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11774303_69

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