Tag-aware ordinal sparse factor analysis for learning and content analytics

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lan, Andrew S ^a   Studer, Christoph ^a   Waters, Andrew E ^a   Baraniuk, Richard G ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Block coordinate descent; Factor analysis; Matrix factorization; Ordinal regression; Personalized learning

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; DATA MINING; FACTORIZATION; MACHINE LEARNING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BLOCK COORDINATE DESCENTS; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUES; EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES; INTERPRETABILITY; MATRIX FACTORIZATIONS; ORDINAL REGRESSION; PERSONALIZED LEARNING; PERSONALIZED LEARNING SYSTEMS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 85084016806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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