---
title: "A Framework for Representing Tutorial Discourse"
authors:
  - "Beverly P. Woolf"
  - "Thomas J. Murray"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/36"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0036.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "189-192"
track: "Cognitive Modeling"
keywords:
---

# A Framework for Representing Tutorial Discourse

Beverly P. Woolf, Thomas J. Murray

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 189-192.

## Abstract

We set forth general techniques for managing discourse in an intelligent tutor. These techniques are being implemented in a structure that dynamically reasons about the discourse, a student's response, and the tutor's move. The structure is flexible, domainindependent, and designed to be rebuilt - decision points and machine actions are modifiable through a visual editor. We discuss this formal reasoning structure and its application in an intelligent tutor.