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The development of intelligent tutoring systems based on models of the user requires that a practical and efficient method be found for designing and implementing such models. This paper describes the ‘natural laboratory’ methodology for user model acquisition, and “Nobile” prototype, one of the systems developed to serve as an experimental platform for the ‘natural laboratory’ methodology being developed within the European Community Delta project “Nat*Lab”. The paper also includes a description of a re-implementation of the “ALICE” tutoring system, developed as a testbed for use with the Nobile shell. This system deals with the translation of temporal conjunctions in context and with associated concepts in the field of temporal reasoning and language learning.
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Cerri, S.A., Cheli, E., McIntyre, A. (1992). Nobile: Object-Based User Model Acquisition for Second Language Learning. In: Swartz, M.L., Yazdani, M. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Foreign Language Learning. NATO ASI Series, vol 80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77202-3_11
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