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Preliminary Evaluations of a Dialogue-Based Digital Tutor

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Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2018)

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IBM and Pearson have partnered to develop dialogue-based intelligent tutoring systems at an unprecedented scale. We leveraged the decades-long research in intelligent tutoring systems (specifically dialogue based tutoring systems) and advances in machine learning and natural language processing to create a Watson dialogue-based tutor (WDBT). WDBT is currently being used by hundreds of students across multiple institutions. This paper describes our plans for preliminary evaluations of WDBT. Our formal evaluations begin in Spring 2018 and we will present findings shortly thereafter.

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This work was heavily supported by the broader teams at Pearson Education and IBM Research. We also thank the students and participants in our research for their invaluable feedback.

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  1. Pearson Education, Pearson, USA

    Matthew Ventura, Peter Foltz, Jessica Yarbro, Anne Pier Salverda & John Behrens

  2. IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

    Maria Chang, Nirmal Mukhi, Jae-wook Ahn, Tengfei Ma, Tejas I. Dhamecha, Smit Marvaniya, Patrick Watson, Cassius D’helon, Ravi Tejwani & Shazia Afzal

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Carolyn Penstein Rosé

  2. University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Roberto Martínez-Maldonado

  3. University of Duisburg-Essen , Duisburg, Germany

    H. Ulrich Hoppe

  4. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

    Rose Luckin

  5. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

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  6. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

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  7. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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  8. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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Ventura, M. et al. (2018). Preliminary Evaluations of a Dialogue-Based Digital Tutor. In: Penstein Rosé, C., et al. Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10948. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93846-2_90

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