Thanks, Charles.
I can certainly see the possibility of many interesting use cases there. True or false questions would be an interesting game for our natural-language renderers to play, for example. Given an inferred statement supposed to be true, negate it. Test-setters might be expected to correct errors of fact or expression, but that's up to them. It would be interesting to monitor which statements they preferred to choose as True and which as False, in any event.
Questions of the form: "choose the best answer from the following" could also be a win-win if our renderers face difficulties selecting or expressing some combination of facts.
Then there is the grading of information. Questions chosen for more basic tests might be supposed to be more generally relevant than those chosen for more advanced tests, which might feed back into the emphasis in the general Wikipedia article (now complete with a slider bar for the reader's current and/or target level of understanding, as well as competence in the language).
And finally, renderer, given the pedagogue's valuable input into what is an appropriate statement of fact here, please turn it into questions in many languages!
Loving it...
Thank you again, Charles
Best regards, Al.
Today's Topics:
- Re: How to store wikitext along the structured content? (Grounder UK)
- Re: Comprehension questions (Charles Matthews)
On 31 July 2020 at 17:32 Grounder UK <grounderuk@gmail.com> wrote:
I can certainly see the possibility of many interesting use cases there.
Thanks for the comments. I think the main point about questions online is that the reuse value is what is hard to get under control.
In the AW spirit, one could imagine a pilot project, for some class of questions, of an authoring method that would allow questions to be exported to Moodle XML, localised to any of some range of languages. Such a pilot would engage with foundational issues that come up with AW.
Then one could broaden things out. Questions and other applications that amount to an HTML form and some processing of inputs to give output are protean. That isn't really the issue: it is having standardised specifications to work with. Exports in the Wikimedia world would be to wikitext via Lua. It's the format before that happens that holds the promise of wider reuse in education.
There has been work in this area, and I won't go into it here. What seems to me key is the difference between the "invertebrate" world of HTML forms lashed up just as people want, with no regard for reuse: and the question data being clearly separated from the "wiring" of a form, and its processing routine.
In any case it seems to me that the problems involved here can probably be addressed, by standing on the shoulders of AW.
Charles
Educational technology is also interesting here.
Generating reading comprehension questions while generating natural language articles is an interesting topic. I think that the matter would be one of refining the set of possible questions and selecting the best questions for a particular reader in a particular context. One might also find interesting the topics of intelligent tutoring systems [1] and automatic item generation [2].
We can view the automatic generation of encyclopedia articles in response to search engine queries as a type of Q&A system. Articles and their related content hyperlinks sections could be generated in search result contexts, contexts which include the question(s) that users asked a search engine to find the content. Articles, when produced with this search engine referrer information, could, in addition to highlighting relevant content, recommend follow-up questions for readers to select in a related content section, each follow-up question a hyperlink to another article (resembling a hypertext-based dialogue system). Hopefully, these related content hyperlink sections (perhaps resembling a recommender system) would entice readers to further self-directed learning.
I would like to also indicate that we should explore outputting mathematics when automatically generating encyclopedia articles. For wikitext, this could involve outputting LaTeX for MathJax to process.
Best regards, Adam
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_tutoring_system [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Item_Generation
From: Grounder UKmailto:grounderuk@gmail.com Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 12:32 PM To: abstract-wikipedia@lists.wikimedia.orgmailto:abstract-wikipedia@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Abstract-wikipedia] Comprehension questions
Thanks, Charles.
I can certainly see the possibility of many interesting use cases there. True or false questions would be an interesting game for our natural-language renderers to play, for example. Given an inferred statement supposed to be true, negate it. Test-setters might be expected to correct errors of fact or expression, but that's up to them. It would be interesting to monitor which statements they preferred to choose as True and which as False, in any event.
Questions of the form: "choose the best answer from the following" could also be a win-win if our renderers face difficulties selecting or expressing some combination of facts.
Then there is the grading of information. Questions chosen for more basic tests might be supposed to be more generally relevant than those chosen for more advanced tests, which might feed back into the emphasis in the general Wikipedia article (now complete with a slider bar for the reader's current and/or target level of understanding, as well as competence in the language).
And finally, renderer, given the pedagogue's valuable input into what is an appropriate statement of fact here, please turn it into questions in many languages!
Loving it...
Thank you again, Charles
Best regards, Al.
Today's Topics:
1. Re: How to store wikitext along the structured content? (Grounder UK) 2. Re: Comprehension questions (Charles Matthews)
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