Intelligent Dialog Tutor and Conversational Agents -- Continuation

Abstract

The report describes research done to develop a prototype of an easy to use authoring system for an intelligent, computer-based trainer. It focuses on simulated agents who are capable of mixed-initiative dialog with the user through a natural language interface. Trainees converse as they would in normal English discourse asking quests, giving answers, and making comments. The simulated agent generates appropriate responses within any defined domain. The resulting tutor provides individualized instruction based on trained performance. The system is fully authorable and conversational agents are easily created for new scenarios. Technologies used include: natural language processing, semantic analysis, discourse management, agent control architectures, and distributed object-oriented software.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA399439

Entities

People

  • Donald Loritz
  • Michelle Sams
  • William H. Desmedt
  • William R. Murray

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Languages
  • Computers
  • Grammars
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Systems
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Languages
  • Ontologies
  • Operating Systems
  • Reasoning
  • Second World War
  • Students
  • Web Browsers

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computational Linguistics
  • STEM Education

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation