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Ionita, Remus Florentin; Dascalu, Mihai; Corlatescu, Dragos-Georgian; McNamara, Danielle S – Grantee Submission, 2021
Exploring new or emerging research domains or subdomains can become overwhelming due to the magnitude of available resources and the high speed at which articles are published. As such, a tool that curates the information and underlines central entities, both authors and articles from a given research context, is highly desirable. Starting from…
Descriptors: Prediction, Learning Analytics, Authors, Network Analysis
Dascalu, Marina-Dorinela; Ruseti, Stefan; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle; Trausan-Matu, Stefan – Grantee Submission, 2020
Reading comprehension requires readers to connect ideas within and across texts to produce a coherent mental representation. One important factor in that complex process regards the cohesion of the document(s). Here, we tackle the challenge of providing researchers and practitioners with a tool to visualize text cohesion both within (intra) and…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Graphs, Connected Discourse, Reading Comprehension
Nicula, Bogdan; Perret, Cecile A.; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Theories of discourse argue that comprehension depends on the coherence of the learner's mental representation. Our aim is to create a reliable automated representation to estimate readers' level of comprehension based on different productions, namely self-explanations and answers to open-ended questions. Previous work relied on Cohesion Network…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Automation, Artificial Intelligence
Cioaca, Valentin Sergiu; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Numerous approaches have been introduced to automate the process of text summarization, but only few can be easily adapted to multiple languages. This paper introduces a multilingual text processing pipeline integrated in the open-source "ReaderBench" framework, which can be retrofit to cover more than 50 languages. While considering the…
Descriptors: Documentation, Computer Software, Open Source Technology, Algorithms
Nicula, Bogdan; Perret, Cecile A.; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Theories of discourse argue that comprehension depends on the coherence of the learner's mental representation. Our aim is to create a reliable automated representation to estimate readers' level of comprehension based on different productions, namely self-explanations and answers to open-ended questions. Previous work relied on Cohesion Network…
Descriptors: Prediction, Reading Comprehension, Network Analysis, Information Sources
Nicula, Bogdan; Perret, Cecile A.; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Open-ended comprehension questions are a common type of assessment used to evaluate how well students understand one of multiple documents. Our aim is to use natural language processing (NLP) to infer the level and type of inferencing within readers' answers to comprehension questions using linguistic and semantic features within their responses.…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Taxonomy, Responses, Semantics