Text Categorization for Aligning Educational Standards
Özgür Yılmazel, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Sarah Harwell, Jennifer Bailey, Anne R. Diekema, Elizabeth D. Liddy · 2007
Standard alignment (where standards describing similar concepts are correlated) is a necessary task in providing full access to educational resources. Manual alignment is time consuming and expensive. We propose an automatic alignment system, using machine learning techniques utilizing natural language processing. In this paper we discuss our experiments on text categorization for automatic alignment. We explore the role of relevant vocabulary sets in automatic alignment