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title = "Structural information in mathematical formulas for exercise difficulty prediction: a comparison of {NLP} representations",
author = "Loginova, Ekaterina and
Benoit, Dries",
editor = {Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Burstein, Jill and
Horbach, Andrea and
Laarmann-Quante, Ronja and
Madnani, Nitin and
Tack, Ana{\"\i}s and
Yaneva, Victoria and
Yuan, Zheng and
Zesch, Torsten},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022)",
month = jul,
year = "2022",
address = "Seattle, Washington",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.14",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.14",
pages = "101--106",
abstract = "To tailor a learning system to the student{'}s level and needs, we must consider the characteristics of the learning content, such as its difficulty. While natural language processing allows us to represent text efficiently, the meaningful representation of mathematical formulas in an educational context is still understudied. This paper adopts structural embeddings as a possible way to bridge this gap. Our experiments validate the approach using publicly available datasets to show that incorporating syntactic information can improve performance in predicting the exercise difficulty.",
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%T Structural information in mathematical formulas for exercise difficulty prediction: a comparison of NLP representations
%A Loginova, Ekaterina
%A Benoit, Dries
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Burstein, Jill
%Y Horbach, Andrea
%Y Laarmann-Quante, Ronja
%Y Madnani, Nitin
%Y Tack, Anaïs
%Y Yaneva, Victoria
%Y Yuan, Zheng
%Y Zesch, Torsten
%S Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022)
%D 2022
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Seattle, Washington
%F loginova-benoit-2022-structural
%X To tailor a learning system to the student’s level and needs, we must consider the characteristics of the learning content, such as its difficulty. While natural language processing allows us to represent text efficiently, the meaningful representation of mathematical formulas in an educational context is still understudied. This paper adopts structural embeddings as a possible way to bridge this gap. Our experiments validate the approach using publicly available datasets to show that incorporating syntactic information can improve performance in predicting the exercise difficulty.
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%P 101-106
Markdown (Informal)
[Structural information in mathematical formulas for exercise difficulty prediction: a comparison of NLP representations](https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.14) (Loginova & Benoit, BEA 2022)
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