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Constraint-Based Temporal Reasoning for E-Learning with LODE

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Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – CP 2007 (CP 2007)

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LODE is a logic-based web tool for Italian deaf children. It aims at stimulating global reasoning on e-stories written in a verbal language. Presently, we are focusing on temporal reasoning, that is, LODE stimulates children to reason with global temporal relations between events possibly distant in a story. This is done through apt exercises and with the support of a constraint programming system. Children can also reinvent the e-story by rearranging its events along a new temporal order; it is the task of the constraint system to determine the consistency of the temporally reorganised story and provide children with feedback. To the best of our knowledge, LODE is the first e-learning tool for Italian deaf children that aims at stimulating global reasoning on whole e-stories.

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Gennari, R., Mich, O. (2007). Constraint-Based Temporal Reasoning for E-Learning with LODE . In: Bessière, C. (eds) Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – CP 2007. CP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4741. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74970-7_9

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