AI-assisted language learning: Assessing learners who memorize and reason by analogy
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
20:00 UTC
Dr Pierre-Alexandre Murena
University of Helsinki
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Hosted by Analogical Minds90 minutes
Abstract
Vocabulary learning applications like Duolingo have millions of users around the world, but yet are based on very simple heuristics to choose teaching material to provide to their users. In this presentation, we will discuss the possibility to develop more advanced artificial teachers, which would be based on modeling of the learner’s inner characteristics. In the case of teaching vocabulary, understanding how the learner memorizes is enough. When it comes to picking grammar exercises, it becomes essential to assess how the learner reasons, in particular by analogy. This second application will illustrate how analogical and case-based reasoning can be employed in an alternative way in education: not as the teaching algorithm, but as a part of the learner’s model.
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