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PolyCAFe - Polyphonic Conversation Analysis and Feedback

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Book cover Analyzing Discourse and Text Complexity for Learning and Collaborating

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The PolyCAFe system (Polyphonic Conversation Analysis and Feedback generation) (see Table 14) (Trausan-Matu et al. in press) was designed, implemented and validated within the FP7 2008-212578 LTfLL - Language Technologies for Lifelong Learning project (Trausan-Matu et al. 2008; Trausan-Matu et al. 2010a; Trausan-Matu et al. 2011). Moreover, it represented the starting point of the joint work between the two universities (University Politehnica of Bucharest and University Grenoble Alpes), as both were partners in the same work package.

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Dascalu, M. (2014). PolyCAFe - Polyphonic Conversation Analysis and Feedback. In: Analyzing Discourse and Text Complexity for Learning and Collaborating. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 534. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03419-5_6

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