Towards a virtual peer that writes stories with children

College

College of Computer Studies

Department/Unit

Advance Research Institute for Informatics, Computing and Networking

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source Title

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2017 - Main Conference Proceedings

First Page

95

Last Page

97

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Abstract

Children encounter more difficulty in writing than in sharing their stories verbally. This difficulty may be due to the need for them to organize their thoughts and express them in the written language. A software agent can be designed to mimic the support given by a human teacher or peer, such as asking questions, giving directives, and recommending possible story text. We describe how these tasks can be achieved by our software agent, Alice, using a combination of computational text understanding and generation techniques. Children found Alice's prompts to be useful in situations when they were having a hard time writing their story. Those children who opted to include Alice's suggested story text did so because they found the peer to state certain facts that can add new details to their stories. © 2017 Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. All rights reserved.

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Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Natural language generation (Computer science); Intelligent agents (Computer software)

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