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Tense generation in an intelligent tutor for foreign language teaching: some issues in the design of the verb expert

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Danilo Fum,

Paolo Giangrandi,

Carlo TassoAuthors Info & Claims

EACL '89: Proceedings of the fourth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Pages 124 - 129

https://doi.org/10.3115/976815.976832

Published: 10 April 1989 Publication History

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The paper presents some of the results obtained within a research project aimed at developing ET (English Tutor), an intelligent tutoring system which supports Italian students in learning the English verbs. We concentrate on one of the most important modules of the system, the domain (i.e. verb) expert which is devoted to generate, in a cognitively transparent way, the right tense for the verb(s) appearing in the exercises presented to the student. An example which highlights the main capabilities of the verb expert is provided. A prototype version of ET has been fully implemented.

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Ligozat GZock MZampolli A(1992)How to visualize time, tense and aspect?Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 210.3115/992133.992144(475-482)Online publication date: 23-Aug-1992
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/992133.992144
Fum DPani BTasso CKunze jReimann D(1991)Teaching the English tenseProceedings of the fifth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/977180.977206(149-154)Online publication date: 9-Apr-1991
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/977180.977206

Tense generation in an intelligent tutor for foreign language teaching: some issues in the design of the verb expert
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Ligozat GZock MZampolli A(1992)How to visualize time, tense and aspect?Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 210.3115/992133.992144(475-482)Online publication date: 23-Aug-1992
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/992133.992144
Fum DPani BTasso CKunze jReimann D(1991)Teaching the English tenseProceedings of the fifth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/977180.977206(149-154)Online publication date: 9-Apr-1991
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/977180.977206

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