Forum-Based Language Learning Analysis

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Fast Learning of Graph Structure for Anomalous Pattern Detection

Team Members

Adam Skory

Gabriel Parent

Introduction

Online forums have been used to create topic-topic, user-user, and user-topic graphs. These graphs have been used for such tasks as recommendation systems, investigating knowledge propagation, and identifying influence. In this work we plan to use data from a forum dedicating to studying the Spanish language to to identify salient topics among learners of Spanish and to track influence among the users of the forum.

Dataset

For this dataset will be performing a crawl of http://forums.tomisimo.org/

Some statistics about the forum: Threads: 9,046 Posts: 100,535 Members: 4,863 Active Members: 742

The primary areas of the forum are:

  • Vocabulary
  • Translations
  • Grammar
  • Practice & Homework
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Culture
  • Teaching and Learning Techniques
  • Introductions
  • General Chat

The forum is run on the vBulletin system.

Proposed Work

Related Work

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