Analysing Educational Dialogue Interaction: Towards Models that Support Learning
In IJAIED
12 (1): "Part II of the Special Issue on Analysing Educational Dialogue Interaction"
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Abstract
The motivation for this special issue on analysing dialogue interaction was provided by the oneday
workshop with the same title held at AI-Ed '99 in Le Mans. From this workshop a number
of common themes and issues emerged. The call for papers for this special issue was based
around these themes:
• valid and reliable approaches to identifying dialogue structures and features
• the role of dialogue in learning as evidenced by dialogue analysis
• computational models of dialogue in Intelligent Educational Systems (IESs)
• applications of dialogue analysis to Computer Mediated communication (CMC) and
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
Responses to the call exceeded expectation and, as a consequence, the special issue has had to
be published in two parts. It seems that research in this field is now not only timely but
necessary to the design of interactive systems that support learning and the evaluation of CMC
in learning contexts. This editorial attempts to present an overview of the issues raised by
papers in the special issue.
