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Abstract Concept Mapping is a technique that allows information visualization. A Concept Map is a graphical way of representing and organizing knowledge. It is comprised of nodes and links, arranged in some spatial distribution to reflect... more
Abstract Concept Mapping is a technique that allows information visualization. A Concept Map is a graphical way of representing and organizing knowledge. It is comprised of nodes and links, arranged in some spatial distribution to reflect the domain information. Nodes ...
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... Ander Elorriaga University of the Basque Country, Manuel Lardizabal pasealekua, 1 E-20018 Donostia {iraide.zipitria, a.arruarte, jon.elorriaga⎬@ehu ... Proceedings of ATALA Workshop of punctuation, (2003) [23] Aduriz, I., Aranzabe,... more
... Ander Elorriaga University of the Basque Country, Manuel Lardizabal pasealekua, 1 E-20018 Donostia {iraide.zipitria, a.arruarte, jon.elorriaga⎬@ehu ... Proceedings of ATALA Workshop of punctuation, (2003) [23] Aduriz, I., Aranzabe, M., Arriola, J., Díaz de Ilarraza, A., Gojenola, K ...
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Psychology, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and 12 moreDecision Making, Data Analysis, Multi-Document Summarization, Latent Semantic Analysis, Text Analysis, Feedback, Coherence, Automatic Assessment, Linear Regression, Length Measurement, Internet, and Automatic Summarization
IRIS is an authoring tool developed to help human instructors to build intelligent teaching-learning systems in a wide variety of domains. The instructor/designer is required to produce a set of pedagogical requisites, which, in turn, are... more
IRIS is an authoring tool developed to help human instructors to build intelligent teaching-learning systems in a wide variety of domains. The instructor/designer is required to produce a set of pedagogical requisites, which, in turn, are used to automatically configure a generic tutor architecture and produce an intelligent tutoring system. In order to provide IRIS with a sound basis for producing systems, a theory of instruction that integrates cognitive processes, instructional events and instructional actions has been considered. In this chapter we explain, through the analysis of the cognitive theory, the generic architecture. We present several system components, the requirements of the different components, and show how we integrate these components in IRIS. Moreover, we embed requirements, cognitive principles, and design requisites in an authoring tool in order that human instructors can follow them easily. Various design issues, an example of building a tutor for mathematical differentiation by using IRIS, and some experiences of use and evaluation are also presented.
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1. Introduction In recent years, and due mainly to the growth of the Internet, computing technology has reached the state where it is possible to provide e-learning mechanisms. A number of software products to support e-learning processes... more
1. Introduction In recent years, and due mainly to the growth of the Internet, computing technology has reached the state where it is possible to provide e-learning mechanisms. A number of software products to support e-learning processes have been developed. Even considering that e-...
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This paper presents a study carried out at Hirubide Secondary School in the Basque Country with the aim of evaluating whether the use of the CM-ED Concept Map EDitor increases student motivation and engagement in the learning process.... more
This paper presents a study carried out at Hirubide Secondary School in the Basque Country with the aim of evaluating whether the use of the CM-ED Concept Map EDitor increases student motivation and engagement in the learning process. During the last decades, motivating students has increasingly become a problem for educators even more in multicultural educational settings.
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This paper describes a study conducted with the aim of validating DynMap, a system based on Concept Maps, as a mechanism to visualize the evolution of the students through the learning process of a particular subject. DynMap has been... more
This paper describes a study conducted with the aim of validating DynMap, a system based on Concept Maps, as a mechanism to visualize the evolution of the students through the learning process of a particular subject. DynMap has been developed with the aim of providing the educational community with a tool that facilitates the inspection of the student data. It
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IkaStat is a tool for managing the marks of the students in a teaching institution. It has been conceived with the aim of providing teachers, academic inspectors and administration staff with facilities for collecting and managing the... more
IkaStat is a tool for managing the marks of the students in a teaching institution. It has been conceived with the aim of providing teachers, academic inspectors and administration staff with facilities for collecting and managing the marks of the students and for visualizing and inspecting them. The tool allows a flexible definition of the curriculum at different levels and
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Constructing Concept Maps (CMs) gives learners improved confidence of the content it is easier to incorporate information into their knowledge frame [5]. A CM is a graphical way of representing and organizing knowledge that is... more
Constructing Concept Maps (CMs) gives learners improved confidence of the content it is easier to incorporate information into their knowledge frame [5]. A CM is a graphical way of representing and organizing knowledge that is comprised of nodes and links [9]. CM-ED tool [2] is a ...
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... Benjamin Publishing Company, 2000. [5] M. Larrañaga, U. Rueda, JA Elorriaga, A. Arruarte Using CM-ED for the Generation of Graphical Exercises Based on Concept Maps. In Procs. of ICCE'2002, 2002, pp. 173-177. [6] U. Rueda ...
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In this paper, the authors stud). the use of coricept maps cis support resources iisefitl for different tasks in the computer-aided learning area. These npplicntions include an auxiliaty cognitive tool for the student, the design of new... more
In this paper, the authors stud). the use of coricept maps cis support resources iisefitl for different tasks in the computer-aided learning area. These npplicntions include an auxiliaty cognitive tool for the student, the design of new knowledge presentatiori and evaluation activities ...
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In this paper, the language independence of DOM-Sortze for creating Educational Ontologies from electronic textbooks is tested. DOM-Sortze has been designed to be language and domain independent. Initially, it was tested with documents... more
In this paper, the language independence of DOM-Sortze for creating Educational Ontologies from electronic textbooks is tested. DOM-Sortze has been designed to be language and domain independent. Initially, it was tested with documents written in the Basque language. In this work, DOM-Sortze has been enhanced to deal with the English language. In addition, the benefit of incorporating Wikipedia as a knowledge source in the elicitation process of the Educational Ontology is also considered. The obtained results confirm the language independence of this approach.
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The development of Computer Supported Learning Systems is a hard task and, therefore, they are not as broadly used as expected yet. Some authors have claimed that tools for generating learning material in automatic or semiautomatic way... more
The development of Computer Supported Learning Systems is a hard task and, therefore, they are not as broadly used as expected yet. Some authors have claimed that tools for generating learning material in automatic or semiautomatic way are needed. This paper ...
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Tools for generating learning material in automatic or semiautomatic way are needed in order to lighten the development of Computer Supported Learning Systems. This paper describes an approach to semi automatic generation of didactic... more
Tools for generating learning material in automatic or semiautomatic way are needed in order to lighten the development of Computer Supported Learning Systems. This paper describes an approach to semi automatic generation of didactic resources from electronic ...
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... The University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Manuel Lardizabal pasealekua, 20018 Donostia, Spain {iraide.zipitria,jon.elorriaga,a.arruarte}@ehu ... Lawrence Erlbaum Asso-ciates, Mahwah (1988) 9. Aduriz, I., Aranzabe, M., Arriola,... more
... The University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Manuel Lardizabal pasealekua, 20018 Donostia, Spain {iraide.zipitria,jon.elorriaga,a.arruarte}@ehu ... Lawrence Erlbaum Asso-ciates, Mahwah (1988) 9. Aduriz, I., Aranzabe, M., Arriola, J., Diaz de Ilarraza, A., Gojenola, K., Oronoz ...
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... Comprehension Grading of Learner Summaries Iraide Zipitria1,2, Ana Arruarte1, and Jon Ander Elorriaga1 ... 1990. 24. Aduriz, I., Aranzabe, M., Arriola, J., Ilarraza, ADd, Gojenola, K., M.Oronoz and Uria, L. A Cascaded Syntactic... more
... Comprehension Grading of Learner Summaries Iraide Zipitria1,2, Ana Arruarte1, and Jon Ander Elorriaga1 ... 1990. 24. Aduriz, I., Aranzabe, M., Arriola, J., Ilarraza, ADd, Gojenola, K., M.Oronoz and Uria, L. A Cascaded Syntactic Analyser for Basque. ...
Research Interests: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Modeling, Morphology, and 9 moreIntelligent Tutoring Systems, Latent Semantic Analysis, Language Comprehension, Comprehension, Natural language, Intelligent Tutoring System, Automatic Evaluation, Lemmatisation, and Lemmatization
ABSTRACT Content reuse is one of the major concerns in the Technology Enhanced Learning community. ErauzOnt is a system that uses Natural Language Processing techniques, heuristic reasoning, and ontologies to generate Learning Objects... more
ABSTRACT Content reuse is one of the major concerns in the Technology Enhanced Learning community. ErauzOnt is a system that uses Natural Language Processing techniques, heuristic reasoning, and ontologies to generate Learning Objects from textbooks. It has been tested with several textbooks written in the Basque language in order to evaluate the automatic construction of Learning Objects.
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Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. The fundamentals of concept mapping are in Ausubel's learning theory which is based on the assumption that meaningful learning occurs when the... more
Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. The fundamentals of concept mapping are in Ausubel's learning theory which is based on the assumption that meaningful learning occurs when the new concepts are linked to familiar concepts existing in the learner's cognitive structure. Creativity can be seen as a very high level of meaningful learning. Database Principles is
Research Interests: Computer Science, Computer Science Education, Knowledge Management, Creativity, Engineering Education, and 13 moreMathematics Education, Statistical Analysis, Concept Map, Knowledge Representation, Collaborative Learning, Database Management Systems, Basque country, Learning Theory, Second Year, Meaningful Learning, Cognitive Structure, Control Group, and Experimental Group
ABSTRACT Due to the impact that Information and Communication Technologies have in the current society in general, and in academic institutions in particular, there is a growing need for effective creation and management of digital... more
ABSTRACT Due to the impact that Information and Communication Technologies have in the current society in general, and in academic institutions in particular, there is a growing need for effective creation and management of digital content. But content authoring is known to be an effort and time consuming task. Digital contents used inside Technology Supported Learning Systems with learning purposes are often referred to as Didactic Resources, or Learning Objects if they are annotated with metadata. One of the main advantages of Learning Objects is that they can be reused to support learning in different platforms or environments. Along this paper an experiment carried out with ErauzOnt, a system that automatically builds Learning Objects from electronic textbooks using Natural Language Processing techniques, ontologies and heuristic reasoning is presented. ErauzOnt was able to gather definitions, examples and exercises for the topics of the Object Oriented Programming subject - a compulsory subject studied at the first year of the Computer Engineering degree at the University of the Basque Country - using as a starting point a textbook written in English.
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ABSTRACT Technology-supported learning systems have proved to be helpful in many learning situations. These systems require an appropriate representation of the knowledge to be learned, the Domain Module. The authoring of the Domain... more
ABSTRACT Technology-supported learning systems have proved to be helpful in many learning situations. These systems require an appropriate representation of the knowledge to be learned, the Domain Module. The authoring of the Domain Module is cost and labor intensive, but its development cost might be lightened by profiting from semiautomatic Domain Module authoring techniques and promoting knowledge reuse. DOM-Sortze is a system that uses natural language processing techniques, heuristic reasoning, and ontologies for the semiautomatic construction of the Domain Module from electronic textbooks. To determine how it might help in the Domain Module authoring process, it has been tested with an electronic textbook, and the gathered knowledge has been compared with the Domain Module that instructional designers developed manually. This paper presents DOM-Sortze and describes the experiment carried out.
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Research Interests: Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Concept Map, and 11 moreAttachment Theory, Computers in Education, Concept Maps, Basque country, Flexibility in engineering design, Post Secondary Education, Meaningful Learning, Program Design, Cognitive Structure, Evaluation of Cal Systems, and Improving Classroom Teaching
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Research Interests: Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Algorithms, Decision Making, Behavior, and 15 moreEducational Measurement, Medicine, Educación, Humans, Psicología, Data Science, Matemáticas, Comprehension, Empirical Study, Bayesian Network, Bayes Theorem, Automatic Summarization, Predictive power, Behavior Methods, and Language tests
Along this paper Idea Map Editor is presented, a brainstorming tool based on Concept Maps valid for promoting reflection. Applied to the act of learning, reflection is a mental process that allows participants to use critical thinking to... more
Along this paper Idea Map Editor is presented, a brainstorming tool based on Concept Maps valid for promoting reflection. Applied to the act of learning, reflection is a mental process that allows participants to use critical thinking to examine presented information, question its validity, and draw conclusions based on the resulting ideas.
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Current work in learner evaluation of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), is moving towards open-ended educational content diagnosis. One of the main difficulties of this approach is to be able to automatically understand natural... more
Current work in learner evaluation of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), is moving towards open-ended educational content diagnosis. One of the main difficulties of this approach is to be able to automatically understand natural language. Our work is directed to produce automatic evaluation of learner summaries in Basque. Therefore, in addition to language comprehension, difficulties emerge from Basque morphology itself. In this work, Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is used to model comprehension in a language in which lemmatization has shown to be highly significant. This paper tests the influence of corpus lemmatization while performing automatic comprehension and coherence grading. Summaries graded by human judges in coherence and comprehension, have been tested against LSA based measures from source lemmatized and non-lemmatized corpora. After lemmatization, the amount of LSA known single terms was reduced in a 56% of its original number. As a result, LSA grades almost match hu...