Linguistically-Driven Strategy for Concept Prerequisites Learning on Italian

Abstract

We present a new concept prerequisite learning method for Learning Object (LO) ordering that exploits only linguistic features extracted from textual educational resources. The method was tested in a cross- and in- domain scenario both for Italian and English. Additionally, we performed experiments based on a incremental training strategy to study the impact of the training set size on the classifier performances. The paper also introduces ITA-PREREQ, to the best of our knowledge the first Italian dataset annotated with prerequisite relations between pairs of educational concepts, and describe the automatic strategy devised to build it.

Publication
In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (ACL 2019, Florence)
Alessio Miaschi
Alessio Miaschi
PostDoc in Natural Language Processing