Empirical Derivation of a Sequence of User Stereotypes for Language Learning

A Model to Disambiguate Natural Language Parses on the Basis of User Language Proficiency: Design and Evaluation

“…That stereotype therefore provides probable tags for the KUs which have not yet been observed in sufficient quantity in the user's performance. We are currently undertaking our own exploration of the typical linguistic structure acquisition order for our user population to determine placement of KUs into Easy, Medium and Hard; for a detailed discussion of our methodology, see (Michaud and McCoy, 2004). In this earlier work we have concentrated on the errors occurring in writing samples we have collected to represent our user population.…”

“…Structures at a given layer, regardless of hierarchy, are typically learned before structures at a layer 'above' that layer. For more detailed information on the structure of the model, please see (Michaud and McCoy, 2004). Using this SLALOM model, we can define three different stereotypes of users as depicted in Figure 1: Low, Middle, and High.…”

“…16 Our judges were a panel of four instructors trained in the evaluation of writing by second language learners. The judging is discussed in (Michaud and McCoy, 2004). sentences that clearly exhibit structures expected primarily of a High-level learner, the new stage to which our user had progressed.…”

“…The name ICICLE represents 'Interactive Computer Identification and Correction of Language Errors' and is the name of an intelligent tutoring system currently under development , 2003, 2004. The system's primary long-term goal is to employ natural language processing and generation to tutor deaf students on grammatical components of their written English.…”

Participatory Learner Modelling Design: A methodology for iterative learner models development

“…A framework for the development of adaptive systems taking into consideration context and user models was proposed by Zimmermann et al [92]; they focused on the relation-120 ship between user and context modelling. Michaud and McCoy [64] proposed a methodology for acquiring stereotypes to be used in the modelling process.…”