Language independent analysis and classification of discussion threads in Coursera MOOC forums

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IEEE IRI 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 654-661

  Rossi, Lorenzo A ^a   Gnawali, Omprakash ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; TERMINOLOGY;

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; NOISY LABELS; STUDY GROUPS; TECHNICAL TERMINOLOGY; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84938659818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2014.7051952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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