Developing virtual teaching assistants for open e-learning platforms

Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques within Learning Management Systems (LMS) represent a little explored field of research. We use this paper to show how these techniques can help students as well as tutors across the learning process within an open source e-learning platform. Especially, we present T-BOT and Q-BOT, a couple of chatter bots capable of tutoring and evaluating students using open platforms as Moodle or Claroline. These bots are developed in Program E, a PHP-base interpreter, and can interoperate with the students through natural language thanks to an AIML brain.