Automatic Concepts Classification based on Bloom’s Taxonomy using Text Analysis and the Naïve Bayes Classifier Method

Fatema Nafa, Salem Othman, Javed Khan

2016

Abstract

This paper aims to add Bloom’s Taxonomy levels as tags to the contents (e.g. concepts) of any given text-book which is written in formal English and given as a course material. Bloom’s Taxonomy levels defines concepts and knowledge of learning as six levels. Preparing the material of any course based on these six could help the students to better understand the course’s concepts and their interrelationships. However, the relations between concepts are highly sophisticated and require a human judgment. A set of methods have been proposed to extract the relations among concepts. We use the naïve Bayes classifier which is the best known and most successful classification technique in Machine Learning (Mahesh Kini M et al., 2015). This work presents a naive classifier method which identifies the Bloom’s Taxonomy levels in text paragraphs based on some rules in the training set. We evaluate and validate the proposed method on a text-book. By utilizing the concepts of computer science for determining its knowledge domain. As a result of the proposed method achieves an accuracy of average 70-85%, which is significantly high. Furthermore, we show that taking Bloom’s Taxonomy levels into account in course design is valuable and our method can be used to achieve.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nafa F., Othman S. and Khan J. (2016). Automatic Concepts Classification based on Bloom’s Taxonomy using Text Analysis and the Naïve Bayes Classifier Method . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-179-3, pages 391-396. DOI: 10.5220/0005813303910396

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu16,
author={Fatema Nafa and Salem Othman and Javed Khan},
title={Automatic Concepts Classification based on Bloom’s Taxonomy using Text Analysis and the Naïve Bayes Classifier Method},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2016},
pages={391-396},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005813303910396},
isbn={978-989-758-179-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Automatic Concepts Classification based on Bloom’s Taxonomy using Text Analysis and the Naïve Bayes Classifier Method
SN - 978-989-758-179-3
AU - Nafa F.
AU - Othman S.
AU - Khan J.
PY - 2016
SP - 391
EP - 396
DO - 10.5220/0005813303910396