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A GPT-Based Vocabulary Tutor

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Augmented Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2023)

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Students of a foreign language need help to study vocabulary usually housed in foreign language textbooks. This need can be supported by an artificial vocabulary learning assistant, i.e., software that can ask relevant questions and reliably evaluate the answers. In this work, we present an assistant based on a combination of traditional dialogue generation technology with the latest technology of Generative Pre-trained Transformers. Moreover, we test our software and get admirable results that encourage us to continue our research in this direction.

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This work was supported by the MPhil program “Advanced Technologies in Informatics and Computers”, hosted by the Department of Computer Science, International Hellenic University, Greece.

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    George Zografos & Lefteris Moussiades

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Zografos, G., Moussiades, L. (2023). A GPT-Based Vocabulary Tutor. In: Frasson, C., Mylonas, P., Troussas, C. (eds) Augmented Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13891. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32883-1_23

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