The Gerona Knowledge Ontology and Its Support for Spoken Dialogue Tutoring of Crisis Decision Making Skills

This paper describes the Gerona knowledge ontology and the ways it supports spoken dialogue tutoring of crisis decision-making skills. Gerona allows domain ontology models to be encoded and reasoned over. This paper describes how it has been used to encode three types of tutoring models that are relevant to simulator-based training: an expert model, a student critiquing model, and a question-answer model. These models provide SCoT-DC, a spoken conversational tutor, with domain specific knowledge needed for reflective tutoring.