Natural Language Processing (NLP) of Course Content

Abstract

The goal is to provide infratscture, or backend for a natural language processing NLP service. The service by itself shall unlock many featuers. Each featuer I guess would need an extra ticket on its own.

Some of possible features could be:

Named-entity recognition NER on course content; would for example be useful to provide extra links for learner (which would be auto generated, it can be reviewed by author...)
Provide a service for auto craeting questions based on course content see this topic a-tool-for-generating-question
Linking similar courses. (I think this one can be useful if platform has many courses)
Generate course summary

Context & Background

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Scope & Approach

It shall affect the user expirence of both learner and course author:

Course Author

They would be able to do more with less time (auto creating questions) and (Auto linking external material)

Learner

They would have better expirence, they would be provided with an easy way resources

Site Opreator

Unlocking unlimited featuers and possibilty. It would be just easier for them to build new featuer that depends on NLP.

Value & Impact

We all know how AI/Machine Learning is being utilized is various fields and industry.

In my opinion Open edX has to integrate a clean path for using such technology. Not only it would create infrastructure for many many features. Its also a must have if Open edX shall be an important player in the E-Learning.

Milestones and/or Epics

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Named Release

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Timeline

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Proposed By

Zaat.dev

Additional Info

Refrence reading material:

What can NLP techniques do for eLearning? 2004 Paper by by Paola Monachesi and Eline Westerhout. Utrecht University
Creation of Automated Content With Embedded Artificial Intelligence A Study on Learning Management System for Educational Entrepreneurship 2021 by Alim Al Ayub Ahmed Jiujiang University and Apoorva Ganapathy, Adobe Systems
Integrating Natural Language Processing into E-learning —A Case of Czech by Pavel Smrz Masaryk University Brno Botanick´a
Automatic Generation of Question Paper Using NLP Techniques & Taxonomy Rules By Shivangi Daware, Rachana Ankarm, s Priyanka Phulmogare, and Kishor Shedge SVIT, Chincholi

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