Text mining in education

R Ferreira‐Mello, M André, A Pinheiro… - … : Data Mining and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The explosive growth of online education environments is generating a massive volume of
data, specially in text format from forums, chats, social networks, assessments, essays …

[HTML][HTML] Short-text semantic similarity (stss): Techniques, challenges and future perspectives

ZH Amur, Y Kwang Hooi, H Bhanbhro, K Dahri… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
In natural language processing, short-text semantic similarity (STSS) is a very prominent
field. It has a significant impact on a broad range of applications, such as question …

Survey on automated short answer grading with deep learning: from word embeddings to transformers

S Haller, A Aldea, C Seifert, N Strisciuglio - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Automated short answer grading (ASAG) has gained attention in education as a means to
scale educational tasks to the growing number of students. Recent progress in Natural …

Improving short answer grading using transformer-based pre-training

C Sung, TI Dhamecha, N Mukhi - … , AIED 2019, Chicago, IL, USA, June 25 …, 2019 - Springer
Dialogue-based tutoring platforms have shown great promise in helping individual students
improve mastery. Short answer grading is a crucial component of such platforms. However …

Investigating transformers for automatic short answer grading

L Camus, A Filighera - Artificial Intelligence in Education: 21st International …, 2020 - Springer
Recent advancements in the field of deep learning for natural language processing made it
possible to use novel deep learning architectures, such as the Transformer, for increasingly …

Coding energy knowledge in constructed responses with explainable NLP models

S Gombert, D Di Mitri, O Karademir… - Journal of Computer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Formative assessments are needed to enable monitoring how student
knowledge develops throughout a unit. Constructed response items which require learners …

Multiple data augmentation strategies for improving performance on automatic short answer scoring

J Lun, J Zhu, Y Tang, M Yang - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2020 - aaai.org
Automatic short answer scoring (ASAS) is a research subject of intelligent education, which
is a hot field of natural language understanding. Many experiments have confirmed that the …

Automatic short-answer grading via BERT-based deep neural networks

X Zhu, H Wu, L Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Learning …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic short-answer grading (ASAG) is a key component of intelligent tutoring systems.
Deep learning is an advanced method to deal with recognizing textual entailment tasks in an …

Automated short answer grading using deep learning: A survey

S Bonthu, S Rama Sree… - … : 5th IFIP TC 5, TC 12, WG …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Automated Short Answer Grading (ASAG) is the task of assessing short answers
authored by students by leveraging computational methods. The task of ASAG is …

[HTML][HTML] Toward intelligent open-ended questions evaluation based on predictive optimization

F Jamil, IA Hameed - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
An evaluation is administered to measure students' learning outcomes, which nowadays
become challenging for instructors as student growth increases exponentially. Several …