Leveraging hidden dialogue state to select tutorial moves

  • Authors:
  • Kristy Elizabeth Boyer;Robert Phillips;Eun Young Ha;Michael D. Wallis;Mladen A. Vouk;James C. Lester

  • Affiliations:
  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

  • Venue:
  • IUNLPBEA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Fifth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A central challenge for tutorial dialogue systems is selecting an appropriate move given the dialogue context. Corpus-based approaches to creating tutorial dialogue management models may facilitate more flexible and rapid development of tutorial dialogue systems and may increase the effectiveness of these systems by allowing data-driven adaptation to learning contexts and to individual learners. This paper presents a family of models, including first-order Markov, hidden Markov, and hierarchical hidden Markov models, for predicting tutor dialogue acts within a corpus. This work takes a step toward fully data-driven tutorial dialogue management models, and the results highlight important directions for future work in unsupervised dialogue modeling.