An Investigation into the Pedagogical Features of Documents

Emily Sheng, Prem Natarajan, Jonathan Gordon, Gully Burns


Abstract
Characterizing the content of a technical document in terms of its learning utility can be useful for applications related to education, such as generating reading lists from large collections of documents. We refer to this learning utility as the “pedagogical value” of the document to the learner. While pedagogical value is an important concept that has been studied extensively within the education domain, there has been little work exploring it from a computational, i.e., natural language processing (NLP), perspective. To allow a computational exploration of this concept, we introduce the notion of “pedagogical roles” of documents (e.g., Tutorial and Survey) as an intermediary component for the study of pedagogical value. Given the lack of available corpora for our exploration, we create the first annotated corpus of pedagogical roles and use it to test baseline techniques for automatic prediction of such roles.
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W17-5012
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Month:
September
Year:
2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Joel Tetreault, Jill Burstein, Claudia Leacock, Helen Yannakoudakis
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BEA
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SIGEDU
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
109–120
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-5012
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-5012
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Emily Sheng, Prem Natarajan, Jonathan Gordon, and Gully Burns. 2017. An Investigation into the Pedagogical Features of Documents. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 109–120, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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