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Information Technology Applications in Control

Using syntactic text analysis to estimate educational tasks’ difficulty and complexity

I. Naumov, V. S. Vykhovanets

Institute of Control Sciences of RAS

Abstract: We suggest a routine for automatic assessment of complexity and difficulty of educational tasks. This routine is based on text parsing, phrases’ predicative structures identification and semantic network construction. Then we develop a mathematical model which employs a notion on semantic distance between words to calculate the volume of knowledge in a semantic network. We show that the volume of knowledge in a semantic network is a measure in the space of all semantic networks, and the semantic distance makes this space the metric one.

Keywords: education process, measurements in teaching, the difficulty and complexity of tasks, parsing, semantic nets, semantic distance.

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 English version: Automation and Remote Control, 2016, 77:1, 159–178

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