TY - GEN
T1 - Assisting undergraduate students in writing Spanish methodology sections
AU - González-López, Samuel
AU - Bethard, Steven
AU - López-López, Aurelio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In undergraduate theses, a good methodology section should describe the series of steps that were followed in performing the research. To assist students in this task, we develop machine-learning models and an app that uses them to provide feedback while students write. We construct an annotated corpus that identifies sentences representing methodological steps and labels when a methodology contains a logical sequence of such steps. We train machine-learning models based on language modeling and lexical features that can identify sentences representing methodological steps with 0.939 f-measure, and identify methodology sections containing a logical sequence of steps with an accuracy of 87%. We incorporate these models into a Microsoft Office Addin, and show that students who improved their methodologies according to the model feedback received better grades on their methodologies.
AB - In undergraduate theses, a good methodology section should describe the series of steps that were followed in performing the research. To assist students in this task, we develop machine-learning models and an app that uses them to provide feedback while students write. We construct an annotated corpus that identifies sentences representing methodological steps and labels when a methodology contains a logical sequence of such steps. We train machine-learning models based on language modeling and lexical features that can identify sentences representing methodological steps with 0.939 f-measure, and identify methodology sections containing a logical sequence of steps with an accuracy of 87%. We incorporate these models into a Microsoft Office Addin, and show that students who improved their methodologies according to the model feedback received better grades on their methodologies.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118117238
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
SP - 115
EP - 123
BT - ACL 2020 - Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Proceedings of the 15th Workshop
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 15th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2020 at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020
Y2 - 10 July 2020
ER -