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The Explanation Agent

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2000)

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The problem of judging the effectiveness of a course in general, and of explanations in particular, is certainly one of the most sensible areas in intelligent tutoring systems. In this paper, we present an explanation agent, whose aim is to evaluate the quality of explanations presented to learners. He has two objectives: discovering the source of learner’s misunderstandings by taking into account his student model, and helping the course designer to adapt his explanations according to these observations. We use the conceptual graph theory to structure our explanations into a formal representation. This representation is used by the explanation agent to make his deductions about learners misconceptions

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  1. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P.6128, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3C 3J7

    Amal Zouaq, Claude Frasson & Khalid Rouane

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  1. Amal Zouaq
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  1. Département d’informatique, Université du Québec á Montréal, C.P. 8888, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3C 3P8

    Gilles Gauthier

  2. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3C 3J7

    Claude Frasson

  3. Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Kurt VanLehn

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Zouaq, A., Frasson, C., Rouane, K. (2000). The Explanation Agent. In: Gauthier, G., Frasson, C., VanLehn, K. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1839. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45108-0_59

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