US 12,080,187 B1
Information and dialog models for education
David Ferrucci, Wilton, CT (US); David Melville, Boiceville, NY (US); and Gregory Burnham, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Assigned to Elemental Cognition Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed by Elemental Cognition Inc., Westport, CT (US)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/047,975.
Int. Cl. G09B 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G09B 7/00 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC G09B 7/04 (2013.01) [G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G09B 7/00 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, from a first device associated with a first user, a story, wherein the first user is associated with an author account for a reading comprehension tool;
processing, by the reading comprehension tool, the story to identify one or more elements in the story, the one or more elements including at least one of a character, an event, or a setting associated with the story;
generating, by an authoring tool component associated with the reading comprehension tool, a tagged story model by tagging individual elements of the one or more elements with one or more labels;
generating, by the authoring tool component and based at least in part on the tagged story model, an adaptable dialog set associated with the one or more elements, wherein the adaptable dialog set includes one or more questions for evaluating reading comprehension level;
determining, based at least in part on the one or more labels in the tagged story model, at least one answer for the one or more questions;
generating an information model of the story that includes at least a portion of the tagged story model and the adaptable dialog set;
presenting, via a user interface presented on the first device, the information model for verification;
receiving, from the first device, user input indicating approval of the information model;
storing the information model; and
engaging, by a reading tool component associated with the reading comprehension tool, in a dialog session with a second user associated with a student account, wherein the dialog session uses the information model to evaluate the reading comprehension level of the second user.