Natural Language Understanding Considerations for a Lifelong Learning Companion

Author

Core, Mark G.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Creative Technol., Univ. of Southern California, Playa Vista, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 Jan. 2012

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

8

Abstract

In this paper, we present considerations for natural language processing for a lifelong learning companion. In the context of these considerations, we review related work in automated assessment of learner writing and present an idea for augmenting keyword spotting with syntactic information. However, the extra information given by syntax is offset by parser errors and added burden on the author. The results suggest that while standard keyword spotting is a quick approach to adding NLU capabilities it has inherent limitations.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; continuing professional development; natural language processing; query processing; NLU capabilities; automated assessment; keyword spotting; lifelong learning companion; natural language processing; natural language understanding; syntactic information; Acceleration; Accuracy; Context; Equations; Syntactics; Training; Writing; lifelong learning; natural language understanding; open learner modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5), 2012 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Playa Vista, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1009-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/C5.2012.16

Filename

6195215