Refining learner knowledge and responses through a coadaptive tutoring system

该项目将汇集加州大学研究人员的专业知识 Torontos计算机科学系，创新的软件平台 由安大略省的初创公司NeuRecall Inc.开发。这款软件是一款智能 辅导系统，在Web浏览器或移动设备上作为应用程序运行。该软件 将能够通过在广泛的范围内提出个性化的问题来适应任何给定的学习者 主题和格式多种多样。它将对学习和考试准备都有用，因为 学生，以及教师的考试创设和交付。这里提出的工作将是 升级此软件平台，以便它可以自动创建有意义的内容 从现有的在线来源；将这些内容转换为问题，以培训和测试用户； 从听觉和视觉上提出这些问题，解读英语口语回答； 训练其他语言的无口音语音；并评估从单一语言到 对整篇文章的评论。这些升级将允许该公司推出一款商业广告 用于语言培训和考试准备的ITS系统版本。共同贡献的 OCE、NSERC和NeuRecall将直接为公司创造就业机会，并 计算机科学研究在自然语言等领域的商业化 正在处理。该项目还将带来后续的创收和创造就业机会 随着公司的发展及其与学术合作伙伴的合作不断加深。

This project would bring together the expertise of researchers at the University of Torontos Department of Computer Science, and the innovative software platform being developed by the Ontario-based start-up NeuRecall Inc. This software is an intelligent tutoring system, running in web browsers or as an app on mobile devices. The software will be able to adapt to any given learner by asking individualized questions in a wide variety of subjects and formats. It will be useful both for study and test preparation by learners, and for test creation and delivery by teachers. The work proposed here would upgrade this software platform, so that it can automatically create meaningful content from existing sources online; convert this content into questions to train and test users; present these questions both aurally and visually; decode spoken English responses; train accent-free speech in other languages; and evaluate responses ranging from single words to entire essays. These upgrades would allow the company to launch a commercial version of its system for language training and test preparation. The joint contributions of OCE, NSERC, and NeuRecall would lead directly to job creation at the company and to the commercialization of computer science research in areas such as natural language processing. The project will also lead to subsequent revenue generation and job creation as the company grows and as its collaboration with academic partners deepens.