Abstract:
Reading comprehension tasks are commonly used for developing students' reading ability. In order to adaptively recommend reading comprehension materials to students engag...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Reading comprehension tasks are commonly used for developing students' reading ability. In order to adaptively recommend reading comprehension materials to students engaged in computerized testing, the information in an item bank (a collection of test items stored in a dataset) must be effectively indexed. Familiarity with the topics present in the documents influences students' reading performance. As different question types require different skills, we tag documents with topics and questions with their corresponding types to measure the students' abilities and subsequently recommend relevant materials to them. However, automatic tagging has not been extensively studied in this field. In this article, we propose a document extraction attention network (DEAN) to accomplish the two aforementioned tasks. For topic tagging, DEAN utilizes questions to increase the sample size of documents implicitly through multitask learning. For type tagging, DEAN leverages the information gathered from documents, which aids in the task of prediction. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our mutual use of information obtained from documents and questions. Results indicate that DEAN outperforms commonly used text classification methods when tested on a reading comprehension dataset.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies ( Volume: 13, Issue: 3, 01 July-Sept. 2020)
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- IEEE Keywords
- Index Terms
- Reading Comprehension ,
- Use Of Information ,
- Types Of Questions ,
- Ability Of Students ,
- Text Classification ,
- Multi-task Learning ,
- Reading Comprehension Task ,
- Convolutional Neural Network ,
- Support Vector Machine ,
- Long Short-term Memory ,
- Recurrent Neural Network ,
- Attention Mechanism ,
- Multiple-choice Questions ,
- Shared Features ,
- Word Embedding ,
- Sentiment Analysis ,
- Gated Recurrent Unit ,
- Word Level ,
- Conditional Random Field ,
- Sentence Level ,
- Multi-task Learning Method ,
- Hierarchical Attention ,
- Task-specific Features ,
- Macro F1 Score ,
- Word Information ,
- Schema Theory ,
- Natural Language Processing Tasks ,
- Multilayer Perceptron ,
- Purple Line ,
- Attention Weights
- Author Keywords
Keywords assist with retrieval of results and provide a means to discovering other relevant content. Learn more.
- IEEE Keywords
- Index Terms
- Reading Comprehension ,
- Use Of Information ,
- Types Of Questions ,
- Ability Of Students ,
- Text Classification ,
- Multi-task Learning ,
- Reading Comprehension Task ,
- Convolutional Neural Network ,
- Support Vector Machine ,
- Long Short-term Memory ,
- Recurrent Neural Network ,
- Attention Mechanism ,
- Multiple-choice Questions ,
- Shared Features ,
- Word Embedding ,
- Sentiment Analysis ,
- Gated Recurrent Unit ,
- Word Level ,
- Conditional Random Field ,
- Sentence Level ,
- Multi-task Learning Method ,
- Hierarchical Attention ,
- Task-specific Features ,
- Macro F1 Score ,
- Word Information ,
- Schema Theory ,
- Natural Language Processing Tasks ,
- Multilayer Perceptron ,
- Purple Line ,
- Attention Weights
- Author Keywords