Teaching iSTART to understand Spanish

Mihai Dascalu; Matthew E. Jacovina; Christian M. Soto; Laura K. Allen; Jianmin Dai; Tricia A. Guerrero; Danielle S. McNamara

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61425-0_46

Teaching iSTART to understand Spanish

Mihai Dascalu, Matthew E. Jacovina, Christian M. Soto, Laura K. Allen, Jianmin Dai, Tricia A. Guerrero, Danielle S. McNamara

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Abstract

iSTART is a web-based reading comprehension tutor. A recent translation of iSTART from English to Spanish has made the system available to a new audience. In this paper, we outline several challenges that arose during the development process, specifically focusing on the algorithms that drive the feedback. Several iSTART activities encourage students to use comprehension strategies to generate self-explanations in response to challenging texts. Unsurprisingly, analyzing responses in a new language required many changes, such as implementing Spanish natural language processing tools and rebuilding lists of regular expressions used to flag responses. We also describe our use of an algorithm inspired from genetics to optimize the Fischer Discriminant Function Analysis coefficients used to determine self-explanation scores.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Artificial Intelligence in Education - 18th International Conference, AIED 2017, Proceedings
Editors	Elisabeth Andre, Xiangen Hu, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Benedict du Boulay, Ryan Baker
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	485-489
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9783319614243
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61425-0_46
State	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2017 - Wuhan, China Duration: Jun 28 2017 → Jul 1 2017

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	10331 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2017
Country/Territory	China
City	Wuhan
Period	6/28/17 → 7/1/17

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was partially funded by the FP7 2008-212578 LTfLL project, by University Politehnica of Bucharest through the “Excellence Research Grants” Program UPB–GEX 12/26.09.2016, as well as by the Institute for the Science of Teaching & Learning (IES R305A130124) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR N000141410343 and ONR N00014-17-1-2300).

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© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.

Keywords

Intelligent tutoring systems
Natural language processing
Optimizing score prediction
Reading comprehension

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Dascalu, M., Jacovina, M. E., Soto, C. M., Allen, L. K., Dai, J., Guerrero, T. A., & McNamara, D. S. (2017). Teaching iSTART to understand Spanish. In E. Andre, X. Hu, M. M. T. Rodrigo, B. du Boulay, & R. Baker (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education - 18th International Conference, AIED 2017, Proceedings (pp. 485-489). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10331 LNAI). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61425-0_46

Teaching iSTART to understand Spanish. / Dascalu, Mihai; Jacovina, Matthew E.; Soto, Christian M. et al.
Artificial Intelligence in Education - 18th International Conference, AIED 2017, Proceedings. ed. / Elisabeth Andre; Xiangen Hu; Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo; Benedict du Boulay; Ryan Baker. Springer Verlag, 2017. p. 485-489 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10331 LNAI).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Dascalu, M, Jacovina, ME, Soto, CM, Allen, LK, Dai, J, Guerrero, TA & McNamara, DS 2017, Teaching iSTART to understand Spanish. in E Andre, X Hu, MMT Rodrigo, B du Boulay & R Baker (eds), Artificial Intelligence in Education - 18th International Conference, AIED 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10331 LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp. 485-489, 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2017, Wuhan, China, 6/28/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61425-0_46

Dascalu M, Jacovina ME, Soto CM, Allen LK, Dai J, Guerrero TA et al. Teaching iSTART to understand Spanish. In Andre E, Hu X, Rodrigo MMT, du Boulay B, Baker R, editors, Artificial Intelligence in Education - 18th International Conference, AIED 2017, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2017. p. 485-489. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-61425-0_46

Dascalu, Mihai ; Jacovina, Matthew E. ; Soto, Christian M. et al. / Teaching iSTART to understand Spanish. Artificial Intelligence in Education - 18th International Conference, AIED 2017, Proceedings. editor / Elisabeth Andre ; Xiangen Hu ; Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo ; Benedict du Boulay ; Ryan Baker. Springer Verlag, 2017. pp. 485-489 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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