Computational Semantics Laboratory

Natural Language Interaction with Intelligent Tutoring Systems

People

Elizabeth Owen Bratt
Tina Chen
Herb Clark
John Fry
David Haley
Stanley Peters
Gabe Recchia
Karl Schultz (E-mail: schultzk(at)csli(dot)stanford(dot)edu)

Alumni

Simon Berring
Brady Clark
Tyson Condie
Carole Critchlow
Ally DeArman
Matt Ginzton
Philip Hofmeister
Heather Pon-Barry
Pucktada Treeratpituk
Zack Thomsen-Gray (E-mail: ztgray(at)stanfordalumni(dot)org)
Mija Van Der Wege (E-mail: mija(at)mthoyloke(dot)edu)

Papers

Empirical Foundations for Intelligent Coaching Systems . Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Karl Schultz, Stanley Peters, Tina Chen, Heather Pon-Barry. To be in Proceedings of I/ITSEC 2005. Orlando, Florida
Intelligent Systems for Training Damage Control Assistants. Stanley Peters, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Brady Clark, Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz. To be in Proceedings of I/ITSEC 2004. Orlando, Florida.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of SCoT: a Spoken Conversational Tutor. Heather Pon-Barry, Brady Clark, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Karl Schultz, and Stanley Peters. In Proceedings of ITS 2004 Workshop on Dialogue-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems: State of the Art and New Research Directions. August 31, 2004. Maceio, Brazil. 23-32.
Advantages of Spoken Language in Dialogue-based Tutoring Systems. Heather Pon-Barry, Brady Clark, Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, and Stanley Peters. In Proceedings of ITS 2004, 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. August 30 - September 3, 2004. James C. Lester, Rosa Maria Vicari, Fábio Paraguaçu (Eds.). Maceiò, Brazil. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3220 Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-22948-5. pp 390-400.
Contextualizing Learning in a Reflective Conversational Tutor. Heather Pon-Barry, Brady Clark, Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, and Stanley Peters. In Proceedings of The 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies. August 2004. Joensuu, Finland.
A Scalable, Reusable Spoken Conversational Tutor: SCoT. Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Brady Clark, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, and Pucktada Treeratpituk. ( pdf ) In AIED 2003 Supplementary Proceedings (Vincent Aleven, Ulrich Hoppe, Judy Kay, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Helen Pain, Felisa Verdejo, and Kalina Yacef, eds.). University of Sydney. 2003. 367-377.
Intelligent Tutoring for Non-Deterministic and Dynamic Domains. Zack Thomsen-Gray, Karl Schultz, Brady Clark, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, and Stanley Peters. ( pdf ) In Artificial Intelligence in Education (Ulrich Hoppe, Felisa Verdejo, and Judy Kay, eds.). Amsterdam: IOS Press. 2003. 506-508.
The Gerona Knowledge Ontology and Its Support for Spoken Dialogue Tutoring of Crisis Decision Making Skills. David M. Fried, David C. Wilkins, Eugene Grois, Stanley Peters, Karl Schultz, and Brady Clark. ( pdf) In The 3rd Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems (Arne Jönsson, Jan Alexandersson, Tilman Becker, Kristiina Jokinen, and Magnus Merkel, eds.). 2003. 79-89.
SCoT: A Model of Conversational and Tutorial Intelligence. Brady Clark, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Stanley Peters, Karl Schultz, and Martha Evens. ( pdf ) In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 2003.
A General Purpose Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Brady Clark, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Oliver Lemon, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, Zack Thomsen-Gray, and Pucktada Treeratpituk. ( postscript pdf.) In the proceedings of the International CLASS Workshop on Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in Multimodal Dialogue Systems. June 28-29, 2002. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Model-Based Reasoning for Tutorial Dialogue in Shipboard Damage Control Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Brady Clark, Zack Thomsen-Gray, Stanley Peters, Pucktada Treeratpituk, Heather Pon-Barry, Karl Schultz, David C. Wilkins, and David Fried. In Model Based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Bert Bredeweg (ed.). International workshop at ITS 2002, June 2nd, 2002. San Sebastian, Spain. 63-69.
A Multimodal Intelligent Tutoring System for Shipboard Damage Control. Brady Clark, John Fry, Matt Ginzton, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, and Zack Thomsen-Gray. In Proceedings of 2001 International Workshop on Information Presentation and Multimodal Dialogue (IPNMD-2001), 14-15 December, 2001. Verona, Italy. 121-125.
" Automated Tutoring Dialogues for Training in Shipboard Damage Control" John Fry, Matt Ginzton, Stanley Peters, Brady Clark and Heather Pon-Barry. In Proceedings of the 2001 SigDial Workshop, September 1-2, 2001. Aalborg, Denmark.

Presentations

Stanford Slides from the MURI meeting in Memphis, May 2004
Stanford-Illinois Slides from the Stanford MURI meeting, May 2002

Demo Videos

System details from 2001

runtime installation (including necessary support libraries and apps)
overview of the components of our system
building new voices using festival speech synthesis
how-to documents for tools: SSH, CVS, Java, Forte, ...
Other system details

Support

This work is supported by the Department of the Navy under research grant N000140010660, a multi-disciplinary university research initiative on natural language interaction with intelligent tutoring systems.