TY - GEN
T1 - An intelligent debater for teaching argumentation
AU - Easterday, Matthew W.
PY - 2010/8/27
Y1 - 2010/8/27
N2 - Despite the growing number of ITSs for teaching argumentation, few tutors actually debate the student. An intelligent debater allows the student to practice argumentation and provides the motivation to analyze evidence. Here I describe an intelligent debater used in Policy World to argue with students about policy recommendations. The intelligent debater forces the student to recommend a policy intervention, to describe how the intervention affects the desired policy outcomes, and to provide evidence. The debater then attacks infeasible recommendations, implausible mechanisms, and weak evidence. Key aspects of the intelligent debater algorithm are presented for those interested in using intelligent debaters in science, law, and history.
AB - Despite the growing number of ITSs for teaching argumentation, few tutors actually debate the student. An intelligent debater allows the student to practice argumentation and provides the motivation to analyze evidence. Here I describe an intelligent debater used in Policy World to argue with students about policy recommendations. The intelligent debater forces the student to recommend a policy intervention, to describe how the intervention affects the desired policy outcomes, and to provide evidence. The debater then attacks infeasible recommendations, implausible mechanisms, and weak evidence. Key aspects of the intelligent debater algorithm are presented for those interested in using intelligent debaters in science, law, and history.
KW - Argumentation
KW - Causal reasoning
KW - Debate
KW - Pedagogical agents
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-13437-1_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-13437-1_24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77955897927
SN - 364213436X
SN - 9783642134364
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 218
EP - 220
BT - Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010
Y2 - 14 June 2010 through 18 June 2010
ER -