Natural  Language  &  Knowledge  Representation  Research  Group

Supported in part by Intel Corporation  and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

• The B2 project is a collection of tools for building intelligent dialog systems, especially systems for intelligent tutoring.

• The ColTrain project aims to research methods for enhancing the ability of people and computer systems to collaborate in learning and understanding complex information for training.

• The Arguer Project addresses the problem of detecting arguments in dialog and constructing appropriate rebuttals.

• The YAG (Yet Another Generator) project is a system for doing real-time sentence realization from semantic specifications.

• The Patient Education and Activation System is a collection of tools that help people to prepare for discussions with a doctor and choices that they will be asked to make.

• LEAF (Layman Education and Activation Form) aims to create a more informed and "activated patient'' by extending the normal activity of filling in a medical history form to include educational activities that help patients understand the terminology of the form and suggest topics that they might want to discuss with their doctor.

• The Interactive Multimodal Probability Value Explanations Project aims to provide multimodal explanations of the structure and conclusions of an underlying probabilistic knowledge based system.