Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, page 152,
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Invited Talk
Discourse and Dialogue Processing in Spoken
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Diane J. Litman
Computer Science Department &
Learning Research and Development Center
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA 15260
email: litman@cs.pitt.edu
Abstract
In recent years, the development of intelligent tutoring dialogue systems
has become more prevalent, in an attempt to close the performance gap be-
tween human and computer tutors. Tutoring applications differ in many
ways, however, from the types of applications for which spoken dialogue
systems are typically developed. This talk will illustrate some of the op-
portunities and challenges in this area, focusing on issues such as affective
reasoning, discourse and dialogue analysis, and performance evaluation.
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