An Investigation into the Pedagogical Features of Documents

摘要

Characterizing the content of a technical document in terms of its learningutility can be useful for applications related to education, such as generatingreading lists from large collections of documents. We refer to this learningutility as the "pedagogical value" of the document to the learner. Whilepedagogical value is an important concept that has been studied extensivelywithin the education domain, there has been little work exploring it from acomputational, i.e., natural language processing (NLP), perspective. To allow acomputational exploration of this concept, we introduce the notion of"pedagogical roles" of documents (e.g., Tutorial and Survey) as an intermediarycomponent for the study of pedagogical value. Given the lack of availablecorpora for our exploration, we create the first annotated corpus ofpedagogical roles and use it to test baseline techniques for automaticprediction of such roles.