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This paper describes a supervised three-tier clustering method for classifying students’ essays of qualitative physics in the Why2-Atlas tutoring system. Our main purpose of categorizing text in our tutoring system is to map the students’ essay statements into principles and misconceptions of physics. A simple ‘bag-of-words’ representation using a naïve-bayes algorithm to categorize text was unsatisfactory for our purposes of analyses as it exhibited many misclassifications because of the relatedness of the concepts themselves and its inability to handle misconceptions. Hence, we investigate the performance of the k-nearest neighborhood algorithm coupled with clusters of physics concepts on classifying students’ essays. We use a three-tier tagging schemata (cluster, sub-cluster and class) for each document and found that this kind of supervised hierarchical clustering leads to a better understanding of the student’s essay.
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Pappuswamy, U., Bhembe, D., Jordan, P.W., VanLehn, K. (2005). A Supervised Clustering Method for Text Classification. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30586-6_78
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