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Azevedo, Breno T.; Reategui, Eliseo; Behar, Patrícia A. – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2014
This paper presents ForumMiner, a tool for the automatic analysis of students' posts in asynchronous discussions. ForumMiner uses a text mining system to extract graphs from texts that are given to students as a basis for their discussion. These graphs contain the most relevant terms found in the texts, as well as the relationships between them.…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Content Analysis, Graphs
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Shepherd, Michael A.; Phillips, W. J. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Defines relationship between user profile and user query in terms of relationship between clusters of documents retrieved by each, and explores the expression of cluster similarity and cluster overlap as linear functions of similarity existing between original pairs of profiles and queries, given the desired retrieval threshold. (23 references)…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Databases, Equations (Mathematics)