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Cai, Zhiqiang; Gong, Yan; Qiu, Qizhi; Hu, Xiangen; Graesser, Art – Grantee Submission, 2016
AutoTutor uses conversational intelligent agents in learning environments. One of the major challenges in developing AutoTutor applications is to assess students' natural language answers to AutoTutor questions. We investigated an AutoTutor dataset with 3358 student answers to 49 AutoTutor questions. In comparisons with human ratings, we found…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Processing, Dialogs (Language), Programming
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Li, Haiying; Cai, Zhiqiang; Graesser, Arthur – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
In this paper, we applied the crowdsourcing approach to develop an automated popularity summary scoring, called wild summaries. In contrast, the golden standard summaries generated by one or more experts are called expert summaries. The innovation of our study is to compute LSA (Latent Semantic Analysis) similarities between target summary and…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing, Grading
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Cope, Bill; Kalantzis, Mary – Open Review of Educational Research, 2015
This article sets out to explore a shift in the sources of evidence-of-learning in the era of networked computing. One of the key features of recent developments has been popularly characterized as "big data". We begin by examining, in general terms, the frame of reference of contemporary debates on machine intelligence and the role of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evidence, Computer Uses in Education, Artificial Intelligence
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis