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A Review of the Trends and Challenges in Adopting Natural Language Processing Methods for Education Feedback Analysis
Shaik, Thanveer, Tao, Xiaohui, Li, Yan, Dann, Christopher, Mcdonald, Jacquie, Redmond, Petrea, Galligan, Linda
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast-growing area of study that stretching its presence to many business and research domains. Machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing (NLP) are subsets of AI to tackle different areas of data processing and modelling. This review article presents an overview of AI impact on education outlining with current opportunities. In the education domain, student feedback data is crucial to uncover the merits and demerits of existing services provided to students. AI can assist in identifying the areas of improvement in educational infrastructure, learning management systems, teaching practices and study environment. NLP techniques play a vital role in analyzing student feedback in textual format. This research focuses on existing NLP methodologies and applications that could be adapted to educational domain applications like sentiment annotations, entity annotations, text summarization, and topic modelling. Trends and challenges in adopting NLP in education were reviewed and explored. Contextbased challenges in NLP like sarcasm, domain-specific language, ambiguity, and aspect-based sentiment analysis are explained with existing methodologies to overcome them. Research community approaches to extract the semantic meaning of emoticons and special characters in feedback which conveys user opinion and challenges in adopting NLP in education are explored.
Feature Relevance Analysis to Explain Concept Drift -- A Case Study in Human Activity Recognition
This article studies how to detect and explain concept drift. Human activity recognition is used as a case study together with a online batch learning situation where the quality of the labels used in the model updating process starts to decrease. Drift detection is based on identifying a set of features having the largest relevance difference between the drifting model and a model that is known to be accurate and monitoring how the relevance of these features changes over time. As a main result of this article, it is shown that feature relevance analysis cannot only be used to detect the concept drift but also to explain the reason for the drift when a limited number of typical reasons for the concept drift are predefined. To explain the reason for the concept drift, it is studied how these predefined reasons effect to feature relevance. In fact, it is shown that each of these has an unique effect to features relevance and these can be used to explain the reason for concept drift.
Increase Emotional Intelligence With 15 Activities!
Emotional Intelligence Activities to Increase your EQ. Develop Emotional Intelligence with 15 Practical Exercises. Learn to manage your emotions and have better quality life. In this course, you will learn about emotional intelligence (EQ) and some of the activities that will help you develop your EQ. This course is suitable and beneficial for people of all age groups having an adequate literacy level and also the ones who want to develop a full range of human intelligence rather than limiting themselves to standard IQ scores.
Learn To Code In Python 3: Programming Beginner To Advanced
In this course, learning to code will be easy and intuitive for you. You will learn Python 3, one of the most popular programming languages in the world. We will cover the basic fundamentals of programming and you will learn how to do exciting things in Python, like reading and writing on files, like Excel sheets or TXT files, working with JSON and sending HTTP requests to web servers and APIs. We will also cover a little bit of Data Visualization, Statistics and Machine Learning in Python. This course does not require previous experience in IT or programming, it was designed to help any person learn to code.
Text Analysis and Natural Language Processing With Python - blackfree
My course provides a foundation to carry out PRACTICAL, real-life social media mining. By taking this course, you are taking an important step forward in your data science journey to become an expert in harnessing the power of social media for deriving insights and identifying trends. Why Should You Take My Course? I have an MPhil (Geography and Environment) from the University of Oxford, UK. I also completed a data science intense PhD at Cambridge University (Tropical Ecology and Conservation).
NLP Foundations - blackfree
Let's understand NLP and get all fundamental skills from SCRATCH! In this course you are invited to learn all the fundamental skills ... In this course you are invited to learn all the fundamental skills required in any kind of activity related to the Natural Language Processing and you will learn them from a theoretical and practical point of view, in fact you will seat together with me coding and implementing any topic step-by-step, instruction after instruction. Any of these projects will be a real and working use case so you will be able to re-use them in your own apps. In few words, this course is a real journey inside Natural Language Processing starting from the very beginning and finishing with the idea that all modern systems are leveraging: word embeddings. We are exploring NLU, NLG, NLP History, applications and use cases, studing Tokenization, Stopwords, Stemming, Lemmatization, PoS, NER, BoW, TF-IDF and Embeddings.
Machine Learning: Natural Language Processing in Python (V2) - blackfree
Welcome to Machine Learning: Natural Language Processing in Python (Version 2). In part 1, which covers vector models and text preprocessing methods, you will learn about why vectors are so essential in data science and artificial intelligence. You will learn about various techniques for converting text into vectors, such as the CountVectorizer and TF-IDF, and you'll learn the basics of neural embedding methods like word2vec, and GloVe. Along the way, you'll also learn important text preprocessing steps, such as tokenization, stemming, and lemmatization. You'll be introduced briefly to classic NLP tasks such as parts-of-speech tagging.
Genetic Algorithm for Program Synthesis
A deductive program synthesis tool takes a specification as input and derives a program that satisfies the specification. The drawback of this approach is that search spaces for such correct programs tend to be enormous, making it difficult to derive correct programs within a realistic timeout. To speed up such program derivation, we improve the search strategy of a deductive program synthesis tool, SuSLik, using evolutionary computation. Our cross-validation shows that the improvement brought by evolutionary computation generalises to unforeseen problems.
A Domain-Agnostic Approach for Characterization of Lifelong Learning Systems
Baker, Megan M., New, Alexander, Aguilar-Simon, Mario, Al-Halah, Ziad, Arnold, Sébastien M. R., Ben-Iwhiwhu, Ese, Brna, Andrew P., Brooks, Ethan, Brown, Ryan C., Daniels, Zachary, Daram, Anurag, Delattre, Fabien, Dellana, Ryan, Eaton, Eric, Fu, Haotian, Grauman, Kristen, Hostetler, Jesse, Iqbal, Shariq, Kent, Cassandra, Ketz, Nicholas, Kolouri, Soheil, Konidaris, George, Kudithipudi, Dhireesha, Learned-Miller, Erik, Lee, Seungwon, Littman, Michael L., Madireddy, Sandeep, Mendez, Jorge A., Nguyen, Eric Q., Piatko, Christine D., Pilly, Praveen K., Raghavan, Aswin, Rahman, Abrar, Ramakrishnan, Santhosh Kumar, Ratzlaff, Neale, Soltoggio, Andrea, Stone, Peter, Sur, Indranil, Tang, Zhipeng, Tiwari, Saket, Vedder, Kyle, Wang, Felix, Xu, Zifan, Yanguas-Gil, Angel, Yedidsion, Harel, Yu, Shangqun, Vallabha, Gautam K.
Despite the advancement of machine learning techniques in recent years, state-of-the-art systems lack robustness to "real world" events, where the input distributions and tasks encountered by the deployed systems will not be limited to the original training context, and systems will instead need to adapt to novel distributions and tasks while deployed. This critical gap may be addressed through the development of "Lifelong Learning" systems that are capable of 1) Continuous Learning, 2) Transfer and Adaptation, and 3) Scalability. Unfortunately, efforts to improve these capabilities are typically treated as distinct areas of research that are assessed independently, without regard to the impact of each separate capability on other aspects of the system. We instead propose a holistic approach, using a suite of metrics and an evaluation framework to assess Lifelong Learning in a principled way that is agnostic to specific domains or system techniques. Through five case studies, we show that this suite of metrics can inform the development of varied and complex Lifelong Learning systems. We highlight how the proposed suite of metrics quantifies performance trade-offs present during Lifelong Learning system development - both the widely discussed Stability-Plasticity dilemma and the newly proposed relationship between Sample Efficient and Robust Learning. Further, we make recommendations for the formulation and use of metrics to guide the continuing development of Lifelong Learning systems and assess their progress in the future.