Automatic Generation and Classification of Minimal Meaningful Propositions in Educational Systems

Andreea Godea, Florin Bulgarov, Rodney Nielsen


Abstract
Truly effective and practical educational systems will only be achievable when they have the ability to fully recognize deep relationships between a learner’s interpretation of a subject and the desired conceptual understanding. In this paper, we take important steps in this direction by introducing a new representation of sentences – Minimal Meaningful Propositions (MMPs), which will allow us to significantly improve the mapping between a learner’s answer and the ideal response. Using this technique, we make significant progress towards highly scalable and domain independent educational systems, that will be able to operate without human intervention. Even though this is a new task, we show very good results both for the extraction of MMPs and for classification with respect to their importance.
Anthology ID:
C16-1304
Volume:
Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
Month:
December
Year:
2016
Address:
Osaka, Japan
Venue:
COLING
SIG:
Publisher:
The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
Note:
Pages:
3226–3236
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/C16-1304
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Andreea Godea, Florin Bulgarov, and Rodney Nielsen. 2016. Automatic Generation and Classification of Minimal Meaningful Propositions in Educational Systems. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 3226–3236, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
Cite (Informal):
Automatic Generation and Classification of Minimal Meaningful Propositions in Educational Systems (Godea et al., COLING 2016)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/update-css-js/C16-1304.pdf