Under Construction
Today I gave a talk at the Dawson Active Learning Community meetup, where the theme was methods to get students to read their materials before class. I introduced our Peer Instruction tool, DALITE.
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In Week 2 of the Text Mining and Analytics MOOC, we examine topic modeling, which aims to take a take a collection of documents , and determine what are the different topics these documents are about. The ideas are presented incrementally, starting with mining a corpus of 1 document, extracting only 1 topic, and finally ending with a description of of the PLSA and LDA algorithms.
Read more »The two themes that I payed closed attention to at the AIED 2015 conference in Madrid were i) Affect, Motivation, and Engagement, and ii) Natural Language Approaches.
Most of the work was on measuring the impact of affective states on student learning. Some notable papers were:
Read more »The two themes that I payed closed attention to at the AIED 2015 conference in Madrid were i) Affect, Motivation, and Engagement, and ii) Natural Language Approaches.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) based approaches included work by:
Read more »I am taking the Text Mining and Analytics MOOC. The first week, we learned about mining paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations.
Paradigmatic relations are between words which are of the same class (i.e. cat, dog). These can be found by finding those words which have the most similar contexts (words on the right, words on the left).
Syntagmatic relations are between words whose meaning can be related to one another (i.e. cat, eats). These relations are mined by searching for co-occuring elements.