Oct 24, 2016
Adversarial
Computer Science
Conference
Giles
Information Retrieval
Information Science
Language
Orobla
Publication
Research Item
Text

Using prerequisites to extract concept maps from textbooks (ACM Information and Knowledge Management, 2016)

Citation
Shuting Wang, Alexander Ororbia, Zhaohui Wu, Kyle Williams, Chen Liang, Bart Pursel, C Lee Giles. 2016. "Shuting Wang, Alexander Ororbia, Zhaohui Wu, Kyle Williams, Chen Liang, Bart Pursel, C Lee Giles." Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. 317-326. doi: 10.1145/2983323.2983725.
Abstract

We present a framework for constructing a specific type of knowledge graph, a concept map from textbooks. Using Wikipedia, we derive prerequisite relations among these concepts. A traditional approach for concept map extraction consists of two sub-problems: key concept extraction and concept relationship identification. Previous work for the most part had considered these two sub-problems independently. We propose a framework that jointly optimizes these sub-problems and investigates methods that identify concept relationships. Experiments on concept maps that are manually extracted in six educational areas (computer networks, macroeconomics, precalculus, databases, physics, and geometry) show that our model outperforms supervised learning baselines that solve the two sub-problems separately. Moreover, we observe that incorporating textbook information helps with concept map extraction.