OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research was to build an intelligent tutoring system
capable of carrying on a natural language dialogue with a student who is solving a problem …

Evaluative arguments are pervasive in natural human communication. In countless
situations people attempt to advise or persuade their interlocutors that something is …

One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers articulates the CIRCSIM-Tutor project, an
attempt to develop a computer tutor that generates a natural language dialogue with a …

This study analyzed twenty-eight 1-hr-long tutoring sessions that were carried out keyboard-
to-keyboard with tutor and student in different rooms. The tutors were professors of …

Intelligent Support for Computer Science Education presents the authors' research journey
into the effectiveness of human tutoring, with the goal of developing educational technology …

CIRCSIM-Tutor is a computer tutor designed to carry out a natural language dialogue with a
medical student. Its domain is the baroreceptor reflex, the part of the cardiovascular system …

Naturally occurring conversation with Alzheimer's speakers, including embedded or co-
constructed narrative, can be used to support or augment clinical findings on features of …

The problem of capturing discourse structure for complex NLP tasks has often been
addressed by exploiting surface clues that can yield a partial structure of discourse …

We annotated transcripts of human tutoring dialogue for the purpose of constructing a
dialogue-based intelligent tutoring system, CIRCSIM-Tutor. The tutors were professors of …

The focus of this dissertation is the generation of tutorial dialogue for CIRCSIM-Tutor, a
language-based tutoring system designed to help medical students learn to solve problems …