Evaluation Time

Data collection efforts within iTalk2Learn could be completed yielding more than 80 hours of transcribed audio-corpora for English (37h) and German (44h). These data-sets were divided into separate training and evaluation sets. Both sets need to be disjoint in order to evaluate performance in a fair manner and created in a continuous way (so as…

iTalk2Learn is present at AIED and EDM 2015

iTalk2Learn is present at this year’s AIED and EDM conferences with several contributions This year AIED 2015 (17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education) and EDM 2015 (8th International Conference on Educational Data Mining) are collocated and take place from June 22, 2015 until June 29, 2015 in Madrid. iTalk2Learn is present at this event…

iTalk2Learn at the Westminster Education Forum on June 9, 2015

Junaid Mubeen (Head of Research and Development at Whizz Education) delivered a short talk at the Westminster Education Forum Keynote Seminar: Using technology in education on June 9, 2015. The talk focused on iTalk2Learn’s work in using artificial intelligence to replicate the behaviour of a human tutor. The audience included representatives from educational policy, research…

italk2learn member presenting project at conference

iTalk2Learn crosses the European borders

What’s behind the correct evaluation of Machine Learning based sequencers? The iTalk2Learn consortium has recently been discussing the correct evaluation of Machine Learning based sequencers. Such evaluation requires large data availability, large-scale experiments and consideration of different evaluation measures. Such constraints make the construction of ad-hoc Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) unfeasible and impose early integration in already existing…