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Conceptual Graphs Self-tutoring System

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Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Creation and Communication (ICCS 2003)

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The present paper describes a self-tutoring system CG-EST (Conceptual Graphs Elearning Self-Tutoring system). The purpose of this system is to generate questions to the user from given text lessons, to process user answers and to check their correctness. CG-EST includes modules for: parsing and producing logical forms (LF); generating conceptual graphs (CG) based on LF; generating questions based on LF; defining the scope of correct answer using CG operations; matching the user’s and correct answers. This approach assists the automatic eLearning systems being developed for various domains with some requirements: all sentences in the lessons have to use Controlled English (CE); to each lesson a simple concept type hierarchy and a synonyms set have to be attached. However these restrictions are useful for semantic interpretation of Natural Language (NL) texts. Thus CG-EST presents a solution for self-service eLearning that is ideal for training in a specific field.

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  1. Linguistic Modelling Lab, CLPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 25A Acad. G. Bonchev Str., 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Albena Strupchanska & Milena Yankova

  2. Department of Information Technologies, FMI, Sofia University, 5 J. Bauchier Blvd., 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Svetla Boytcheva

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  1. Institute of Algebra, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

    Bernhard Ganter

  2. Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab), Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050, Brussels 5, Belgium

    Aldo de Moor

  3. Institut für Algebra, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany

    Wilfried Lex

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Strupchanska, A., Yankova, M., Boytcheva, S. (2003). Conceptual Graphs Self-tutoring System. In: Ganter, B., de Moor, A., Lex, W. (eds) Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Creation and Communication. ICCS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2746. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45091-7_23

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