The plurality of taxonomies, the group of researchers have attempted to make ITS differences amongst available features, and the techniques interactions more naturalistic and conversational. In order used have yielded a variety of approaches. Verbee et al. to accomplish this goal, researchers have analyzed corpora (2006) examined the features used by 16 dialogue act of human-human tutorial dialogues to better understand tagging studies and identified 24 features that have been both individual dialogue acts and patterns of acts that occur previously used. While an extensive discussion of these in human tutoring (Graesser & Person, 1994; Graesser, features is outside the scope of the present paper, the Person, & Magliano, 1995; Litman & Forbes-Riley, 2006; features fall loosely into four categories: word based (e.g.