Auto-req: Automatic detection of pre-requisite dependencies between academic videos

Rushil Thareja, Ritik Garg, Shiva Baghel, Deep Dwivedi, Mukesh Mohania, Ritvik Kulshrestha


Abstract
Online learning platforms offer a wealth of educational material, but as the amount of content on these platforms grows, students may struggle to determine the most efficient order in which to cover the material to achieve a particular learning objective. In this paper, we propose a feature-based method for identifying pre-requisite dependencies between academic videos. Our approach involves using a transcript engine with a language model to transcribe domain-specific terms and then extracting novel similarity-based features to determine pre-requisite dependencies between video transcripts. This approach succeeds due to the development of a novel corpus of K-12 academic text, which was created using a proposed feature-based document parser. We evaluate our method on hand-annotated datasets for transcript extraction, video pre-requisites determination, and textbook parsing, which we have released. Our method for pre-requisite edge determination shows significant improvement (+4.7%-10.24% F1-score) compared to existing methods.
Anthology ID:
2023.bea-1.45
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)
Month:
July
Year:
2023
Address:
Toronto, Canada
Editors:
Ekaterina Kochmar, Jill Burstein, Andrea Horbach, Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Nitin Madnani, Anaïs Tack, Victoria Yaneva, Zheng Yuan, Torsten Zesch
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BEA
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SIGEDU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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539–549
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.45
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.45
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Rushil Thareja, Ritik Garg, Shiva Baghel, Deep Dwivedi, Mukesh Mohania, and Ritvik Kulshrestha. 2023. Auto-req: Automatic detection of pre-requisite dependencies between academic videos. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023), pages 539–549, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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