"What if there was no oxygen?": Responding to hypothetical questions in an intelligent tutoring agent

Neil Yorke-Smith, Stijn Heymans, Vinay Chaudhri

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Abstract

Our aim is for intelligent tutoring agents to replace traditional and even online textbooks with personalized, adaptive, one-to-one instruction. We focus on science subjects, and describe an approach to answering hypothetical questions from the student, such as "Would cellular respiration continue in the absence of oxygen?"

Original languageEnglish
Pages1257-1258
Number of pages2
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013 - Saint Paul, MN, United States
Duration: 6 May 201310 May 2013

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySaint Paul, MN
Period6/05/1310/05/13

Keywords

  • Natural language
  • Question answering
  • Tutoring systems

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