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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Recommended Citation
Chua, H., Cu, G., Ibarrientos, C., Paguiligan, M., & Ong, E. (2017). Towards a virtual peer that writes stories with children. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2017 - Main Conference Proceedings, 95-97. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/4293
Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Keywords
Natural language generation (Computer science); Intelligent agents (Computer software)
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