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Amichail Posted 18 years ago
Teaching
Teaching English using the Chatbot Game
I believe that the Chatbot Game can be used to help students learn English as a second language:
http://chatbotgame.com
http://chatbotgame.com/?cmd=chat_rs
http://chatbotgame.com/?cmd=chat_s
Players of the Chatbot Game shape the chatbot's personality and expertise by adding simple chat rules. The better their chat rules, the higher they will score. Higher scoring rules are more likely to be used to generate a chatbot response.
I think such a game may be useful for learning English as a second language. After all, to score lots of points, you will do well by focusing on common sorts of conversation fragments -- exactly the sort of thing that someone learning English should focus on. Moreover, you get to see how well your rules do in actual chats in terms of a rule score and actual conversation fragments.
If the player uses poor grammar in a chat rule, then that rule may not score well assuming that most people chatting with the bot already know English pretty well. Even if someone doesn't vote down a rule with bad grammar, he/she might comment on the bad grammar in his/her response.
In essence, the chat rules can be viewed as open-ended exercises that are graded by the people chatting with the bot.
What do you think?
http://chatbotgame.com
http://chatbotgame.com/?cmd=chat_rs
http://chatbotgame.com/?cmd=chat_s
Players of the Chatbot Game shape the chatbot's personality and expertise by adding simple chat rules. The better their chat rules, the higher they will score. Higher scoring rules are more likely to be used to generate a chatbot response.
I think such a game may be useful for learning English as a second language. After all, to score lots of points, you will do well by focusing on common sorts of conversation fragments -- exactly the sort of thing that someone learning English should focus on. Moreover, you get to see how well your rules do in actual chats in terms of a rule score and actual conversation fragments.
If the player uses poor grammar in a chat rule, then that rule may not score well assuming that most people chatting with the bot already know English pretty well. Even if someone doesn't vote down a rule with bad grammar, he/she might comment on the bad grammar in his/her response.
In essence, the chat rules can be viewed as open-ended exercises that are graded by the people chatting with the bot.
What do you think?
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Interesting. I went and had a play with it (and yes, I couldn't resist turning off the adult filter lol). While it kept me amused for a few minutes I don't really think that this could be a useful tool for ESL students, at least in its current state.
- Interesting.
- I went and had a play with it (and yes, I couldn't resist turning off the adult filter lol).
- While it kept me amused for a few minutes I don't really think that this could be a useful tool for ESL students, at least in its current state.
- I couldn't even work out what you meant by chat rules - I just ended up typing in random words and seeing what the responses were.
- Funny - yes, educational?
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Interesting.
I went and had a play with it (and yes, I couldn't resist turning off the adult filter lol). While it kept me amused for a few minutes I don't really think that this could be a useful tool for ESL students, at least in its current state. I couldn't even work out what you meant by chat rules - I just ended up typing in random words and seeing what the responses were. Funny -
I went and had a play with it (and yes, I couldn't resist turning off the adult filter lol). While it kept me amused for a few minutes I don't really think that this could be a useful tool for ESL students, at least in its current state. I couldn't even work out what you meant by chat rules - I just ended up typing in random words and seeing what the responses were. Funny -
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