Title
Personalized question recommendation for English grammar learning.
Abstract
Learning English grammar is a very challenging task for many students especially for nonnative English speakers. To learn English well, it is important to understand the concepts of the English grammar with lots of practise on exercise questions. Previous recommendation systems for learning English mainly focused on recommending reading materials and vocabulary. Different from reading material and vocabulary recommendations, grammar question recommendation should recommend questions that have similar grammatical structure and usage to the question of interest. The content similarity calculation methods used in existing recommendation methods cannot represent the similarity between grammar questions effectively. In this paper, we propose a content-based approach for personalized grammar question recommendation, which recommends similar grammatical structure and usage questions for further practising. Specifically, we propose a novel structure named parse-key tree to capture the grammatical structure and usage of grammar questions. We then propose 3 measures to compute the similarity between the question query and database questions for grammar question recommendation. Additionally, we incorporated the proposed recommendation method into a Web-based English grammar learning system and presented its performance evaluation in this paper. The experimental results have shown that the proposed approach outperforms other classical and state-of-the-art methods in recommending relevant grammar questions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1111/exsy.12244
EXPERT SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
content-based recommendation,grammar question recommendation,syntactic parse-key tree
Recommender system,Attribute grammar,English grammar,Computer science,Grammar,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Vocabulary
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35.0
SP2.0
0266-4720
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
26
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lanting Fang132.48
Anh Tuan Luu217711.34
Siu Cheung Hui3110686.71
Lenan Wu470062.18