Multilingual Short Text Responses Clustering for Mobile Educational Activities: a Preliminary Exploration

Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Lung-Hao Lee, Yu-Ta Chien, Chun-Yen Chang, Tsung-Yen Li

Abstract
Text clustering is a powerful technique to detect topics from document corpora, so as to provide information browsing, analysis, and organization. On the other hand, the Instant Response System (IRS) has been widely used in recent years to enhance student engagement in class and thus improve their learning effectiveness. However, the lack of functions to process short text responses from the IRS prevents the further application of IRS in classes. Therefore, this study aims to propose a proper short text clustering module for the IRS, and demonstrate our implemented techniques through real-world examples, so as to provide experiences and insights for further study. In particular, we have compared three clustering methods and the result shows that theoretically better methods need not lead to better results, as there are various factors that may affect the final performance.
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W18-3723
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Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications
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July
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2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Vincent Ng, Mamoru Komachi
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NLP-TEA
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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157–164
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-3723
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-3723
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Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Lung-Hao Lee, Yu-Ta Chien, Chun-Yen Chang, and Tsung-Yen Li. 2018. Multilingual Short Text Responses Clustering for Mobile Educational Activities: a Preliminary Exploration. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications, pages 157–164, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Multilingual Short Text Responses Clustering for Mobile Educational Activities: a Preliminary Exploration (Tseng et al., NLP-TEA 2018)
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