Designing an ontology-based intelligent tutoring agent with instant messaging

Min Yuh Day*, Chun Hung Lu, Jin Tan David Yang, Guey Fa Chiou, Chorag Shyong Ong, Wen Lian Hsu

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Abstract

The rapid growth of the Internet and Instant Messaging (IM) offers new opportunities as well as challenges to both educators and students. In this paper, we propose an Intelligent Tutoring Agent (ITA) that uses the ontology, INFOMAP, and question answering techniques through the Instant Messaging platform for the "operating system" course. The ITA embeds the above techniques in the teaching process and plays the role of a tutoring agent to help a teacher track, record, and understand a student 's status. The ITA interface can interpret natural language to facilitate communication between the student and the tutor. Student can query and learn the concept of "operating system" through MSN Messenger, which ITA adopts as the communication protocol. The proposed ITA is accessible by adding the contact ID: [email protected] to the MSN Messenger contacts list.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2005
Pages318-320
Number of pages3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Event5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2005 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Duration: 2005 Jul 52005 Jul 8

Publication series

NameProceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2005
Volume2005

Other

Other5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2005
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityKaohsiung
Period2005/07/052005/07/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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