Bringing order to chaos in MOOC discussion forums with content-related thread identification

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 25-29-April-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 188-197

  Wise, Alyssa Friend ^a   Cui, Yi ^a   Vytasek, Jovita ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discussion forum; Machine learning; Massive open online courses; Natural language processing; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DISCUSSION FORUM; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; LINGUISTIC MODELING; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NUMBER OF VIEWS; RECALL AND PRECISION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84976483565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2883851.2883916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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