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Text mining in education

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Ferreira‐Mello, Rafael, André, Máverick, Pinheiro, Anderson, Costa, Evandro, Romero, Cristobal·2019·WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

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The explosive growth of online education environments is generating a massive volume of data, specially in text format from forums, chats, social networks, assessments, essays, among others. It produces exciting challenges on how to mine text data in order to find useful knowledge for educational stakeholders. Despite the increasing number of educational applications of text mining published recently, we have not found any paper surveying them. In this line, this work presents a systematic overview of the current status of the Educational Text Mining field. Our final goal is to answer three main research questions: Which are the text mining techniques most used in educational environments? Which are the most used educational resources? And which are the main applications or educational goals? Finally, we outline the conclusions and the more interesting future trends. This article is categorized under: Application Areas > Education and Learning Ensemble Methods > Text Mining

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Authors
Ferreira‐Mello, R., André, M., Pinheiro, A., Costa, E., & Romero, C.
Affiliations
  • Department of Computing Federal Rural University of Pernambuco Recife Brazil
  • Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (BR)
  • Universidade Federal de Alagoas (BR)
  • Department of Computer Sciences University of Cordoba Cordoba Spain
Venue
WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2019-08-04
Volume
9
Issue
6
ISSN
  • 1942-4787 (ISSN-L)
  • 1942-4795
OpenAlex
W2965905350
Cited by
193
References
330
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 47 · 2022: 37 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 10
FWCI
18.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Universidad de Córdoba Insitutional Repository (Universidad de Córdoba) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (TIN2017‐83445‐P)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Online Learning and Analytics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Computational and Text Analysis Methods
Keywords
virtual learning environments, educational data mining, student essays, educational software

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