Publications
Michaud, Lisa N., Kathleen F. McCoy, and Chris A. Pennington. An Intelligent Tutoring System for Deaf Learners of Written English. In Proceedings of ASSETS 2000, November 13-15, 2000.ABSTRACT:
This paper describes progress toward a prototype implementation of a tool which aims to improve literacy in deaf high school and college students who are native (or near native) signers of American Sign Language (ASL). We envision a system that will take a piece of text written by a deaf student, analyze that text for grammatical errors, and engage that student in a tutorial dialogue, enabling the student to generate appropriate corrections to the text. A strong focus of this work is to develop a system which adapts this process to the knowledge level and learning strengths of the user and which has the flexibility to engage in multi-modal, multi-lingual tutorial instruction utilizing both English and the native language of the user.