Towards auto-coding of collaborative interaction texts based on maximum entropy approach

  • Jian Liao*
  • , Ronghuai Huang
  • , Yanyan Li
  • , Jingjing Wang
  • , Jing Leng
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Content analysis is an important method in the research into collaborative learning. The usual method for deeper content analysis is to first categorize and code interactive texts and then analyze them. However, the content analysis method with categorizing and coding is time consuming in the first period of research for coding content analysis, which restricts greatly the amount and scale of the analyzed contents. Therefore, this paper proposes a method to automatically code the collaborative interaction text based on the maximum entropy approach. Taken a great number of interactive notes as input corpus, an experiment is conducted to test the efficacy of the proposed approach. The experiment results show that the coding effect of the proposed auto-coding approach is close to that of the sentence-opener approach in which the coding category is manually chosen by students. Additionally, as corpus increase and features are improved, the coding effects will be further strengthened.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLearning by Effective Utilization of Technologies
Subtitle of host publicationFacilitating Intercultural Understanding, Proceeding of the 14th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2006
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2006 - Beijing, China
Duration: 30 Nov 20064 Dec 2006

Publication series

NameLearning by Effective Utilization of Technologies: Facilitating Intercultural Understanding, Proceeding of the 14th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2006

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2006
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period30/11/064/12/06

Keywords

  • Auto-coding
  • CSCL
  • Content analysis
  • Maximum entropy

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