After a month of international conferences and dissemination activities, RUB’s main goal in June was to get ready for conducting the first summative evaluation trial in a German school. Together with the school, we determined that July would be a good time in the fractions curriculum for students to learn with the iTalk2Learn program. July…
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…
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…
During the past months Testaluna have been working to enhance Fractions Lab, the Exploratory Learning Environment developed in the framework of the WP3. As for the past, the improvement of Fractions Lab has not been straightforward, but implied to measure feedback and requirements gathered from partners, teachers and students. The results of this joint work –…
Precision and Recall In a previous blog-post, we discussed the use of the so-called word-error-rate (WER) in evaluating the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. WER is a common measure for such evaluations and provides an adequate measure for applications such as sub-titling, where the correct transcription of every word is of importance. However,…