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From: finin@prc.unisys.com (Tim Finin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: expert systems for student advising
Message-ID: <8207@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Date: 4 Nov 88 18:03:55 GMT
References: <58885A5V@PSUVM> <40522@aero.ARPA>
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Reply-To: finin@prc.unisys.com (Tim Finin)
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In-reply-to: srt@aero.ARPA (Scott R. Turner)

In article <40522@aero.ARPA>, srt@aero (Scott R. Turner) writes:
 >In article <58885A5V@PSUVM> A5V@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
 > >I would appreciate receiving any lead to works done on expert systems
 > >apply to student advising (curriculum advising)
 >
 >I believe that Harry Tennant's Ph.D. thesis from University of Illinois
 >from ages ago (70s?) was about a curriculum advising system.  This was
 >probably the first major attempt at such a system.  The thesis was
 >published in book form, but I doubt that it is still available.  Maybe 
 >a good library will have a copy, or you could try ordering the dissertation
 >from U of I.

Tennants 1981 Dissertation was about the evaluating NLP systems.  The
exact title is "Evaluation of Natural Language Processors".  It was
available as report T-103, Coeerdinated Science Laboratory, University
of Illinois, Urbana, IL.  Tennant publised a book in the same year
entitled "Natural Language Processing" (Petrocelli Books, Inc.,
Princeton; ISBN 0-89433-100-0).  Which was a survey of the NLP field.
In that book, he discussed the "Automatic Advisor", a system he did
(circa 1976-77) for his MS thesis at the U. of Illinois at Chigaco
Circle.
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