The writing-pal: Natural language algorithms to support intelligent tutoring on writing strategies

Danielle McNamara; Roxanne Raine; Rod Roscoe; Scott A. Crossley; G. Tanner Jackson; Jianmin Dai; Zhiqiang Cai; Adam Renner; Russell Brandon; Jennifer L. Weston; Kyle Dempsey; Diana Carney; Susan Sullivan; Loel Kim; Vasile Rus; Randy Floyd; Philip M. McCarthy; Arthur C. Graesser

doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-4502-8.ch045

The writing-pal: Natural language algorithms to support intelligent tutoring on writing strategies

Danielle McNamara, Roxanne Raine, Rod Roscoe, Scott A. Crossley, G. Tanner Jackson, Jianmin Dai, Zhiqiang Cai, Adam Renner, Russell Brandon, Jennifer L. Weston, Kyle Dempsey, Diana Carney, Susan Sullivan, Loel Kim, Vasile Rus, Randy Floyd, Philip M. McCarthy, Arthur C. Graesser

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The Writing-Pal (W-Pal) is an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that provides writing strategy instruction to high school students and entering college students. One unique quality of W-Pal is that it provides feedback to students' natural language input. Thus, much of our focus during the W-Pal project has been on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP). This chapter describes W-Pal and various NLP projects geared toward providing automated feedback to students' writing during writing strategy training and practice.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	K-12 Education
Subtitle of host publication	Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Publisher	IGI Global
Pages	780-793
Number of pages	14
Volume	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781466645035
ISBN (Print)	1466645024, 9781466645028
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4502-8.ch045
State	Published - Sep 30 2013

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McNamara, D., Raine, R., Roscoe, R., Crossley, S. A., Jackson, G. T., Dai, J., Cai, Z., Renner, A., Brandon, R., Weston, J. L., Dempsey, K., Carney, D., Sullivan, S., Kim, L., Rus, V., Floyd, R., McCarthy, P. M., & Graesser, A. C. (2013). The writing-pal: Natural language algorithms to support intelligent tutoring on writing strategies. In K-12 Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (Vol. 2, pp. 780-793). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4502-8.ch045

McNamara, D, Raine, R, Roscoe, R, Crossley, SA, Jackson, GT, Dai, J, Cai, Z, Renner, A, Brandon, R, Weston, JL, Dempsey, K, Carney, D, Sullivan, S, Kim, L, Rus, V, Floyd, R, McCarthy, PM & Graesser, AC 2013, The writing-pal: Natural language algorithms to support intelligent tutoring on writing strategies. in K-12 Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. vol. 2, IGI Global, pp. 780-793. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4502-8.ch045

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