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Model-Based Characterization of Text Discourse Content to Evaluate Online Group Collaboration

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Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2019)

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This paper presents a model that characterizes textual discourse contents of online groups and provides a visualization of the level of collaboration within groups. This approach is envisioned to provide an insight into a real-time intervention to scaffold collaboration within online learning groups.

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    For complete group discourse see colab-learn.herokuapp.com/modelVS/groupX.php replacing X with the group number.

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Adeniran, A., Masthoff, J., Beacham, N. (2019). Model-Based Characterization of Text Discourse Content to Evaluate Online Group Collaboration. In: Isotani, S., Millán, E., Ogan, A., Hastings, P., McLaren, B., Luckin, R. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11626. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23207-8_1

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