Putting Artificial Intelligence Techniques into a Concept Map to Build Educational Tools

  • Authors:
  • Denysde Medina;Natalia Martínez;Zoila Zenaida García;María Carmen Chávez;María Matilde García Lorenzo

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Central University of Las Villas, Cuba;Department of Computer Science, Central University of Las Villas, Cuba;Department of Computer Science, Central University of Las Villas, Cuba;Department of Computer Science, Central University of Las Villas, Cuba;Department of Computer Science, Central University of Las Villas, Cuba

  • Venue:
  • IWINAC '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international work-conference on Nature Inspired Problem-Solving Methods in Knowledge Engineering: Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, Part II
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

When a tutoring aims to guide students in the teaching/learning process, it needs to know what knowledge the student has and what goals the student is currently trying to achieve. The Bayesian framework offers a number of techniques for inferring individual's knowledge state from evidence of mastery of concepts or skills. Using Bayesian networks, we have devised the probabilistic student models for MacBay, a tutoring system that is an authoring tool. MacBay's models provide prediction of student's action during teaching/learning process. We combined the Concept Maps and the Bayesian networks in order to obtain a Concept Map with intelligent behavior, where "intelligence" is considered as the capacity to adapt the interaction to its user's specific needs. In this paper we describe the way in which we do this combination and inference process.