Structured Generation of Technical Reading Lists

Jonathan Gordon, Stephen Aguilar, Emily Sheng, Gully Burns


Abstract
Learners need to find suitable documents to read and prioritize them in an appropriate order. We present a method of automatically generating reading lists, selecting documents based on their pedagogical value to the learner and ordering them using the structure of concepts in the domain. Resulting reading lists related to computational linguistics were evaluated by advanced learners and judged to be near the quality of those generated by domain experts. We provide an open-source implementation of our method to enable future work on reading list generation.
Anthology ID:
W17-5029
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Joel Tetreault, Jill Burstein, Claudia Leacock, Helen Yannakoudakis
Venue:
BEA
SIG:
SIGEDU
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
261–270
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-5029
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-5029
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Jonathan Gordon, Stephen Aguilar, Emily Sheng, and Gully Burns. 2017. Structured Generation of Technical Reading Lists. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 261–270, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Structured Generation of Technical Reading Lists (Gordon et al., BEA 2017)
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