Using Wikipedia and conceptual graph structures to generate questions for academic writing support

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 251-263

  Liu, Ming ^a   Calvo, Rafael A ^a   Aditomo, Anindito ^b   Pizzato, Luiz Augusto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automatic question generation; natural language processing; writing support

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT CONCEPT; AUTOMATIC QUESTION GENERATION; CONCEPTUAL GRAPH; FIRST YEAR STUDENTS; KEY-PHRASE; LITERATURE REVIEWS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RESEARCH FIELDS; SEMI-AUTOMATED; TURING TESTS; WIKIPEDIA;

ABSTRACTING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GRAPHIC METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL; TEACHING; WEBSITES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84866061150     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2012.5     Document Type: Article

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