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Indexing Student Essays Paragraphs Using LSA Over an Integrated Ontological Space
Techreport ID: kmi-04-08
Date: 2004
Author(s): Gaston G Burek, Maria Vargas-Vera, Emanuela Moreale
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A full understanding of text is out of reach of current human language technology. However, a shallow Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach can be used to provide automated help in the evaluation of essays. The main idea of this paper is that Latent Semantic Indexing (LSA) can be used in conjunction with ontologies and First order Logic (FOL) to locate segments relevant to a question in a student essay. Our test bed, in a first instance, is a set of ontologies such the AKT reference ontology (describing academic life), Newspaper and a Koala ontology (concerning koalas' habitat).

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This paper will be published in the workshop (eLearning for Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistics for eLearning International Workshop in Association with COLING 2004) proceedings within The 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Geneva, August 28th, 2004.
 
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Creating learning organisations hinges on managing knowledge at many levels. Knowledge can be provided by individuals or it can be created as a collective effort of a group working together towards a common goal, it can be situated as "war stories" or it can be generalised as guidelines, it can be described informally as comments in a natural language, pictures and technical drawings or it can be formalised as mathematical formulae and rules, it can be expressed explicitly or it can be tacit, embedded in the work product. The recipient of knowledge - the learner - can be an individual or a work group, professionals, university students, schoolchildren or informal communities of interest.
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