Drawing dynamic geometry figures online with natural language for junior high school geometry

This paper presents a tool for drawing dynamic geometric figures by understanding the texts of geometry problems. With the tool, teachers and students can construct dynamic geometric figures on a web page by inputting a geometry problem in natural language. First we need to build the knowledge base...

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Autores principales:	Wing-Kwong Wong, Sheng-Kai Yin, Chang-Zhe Yang
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2012
Materias:	Natural language understanding Dynamic geometry JavaSketchpad Geometry education Knowledge construction Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:58655f839cd941708ea1b592d9315daf2021-12-02T17:00:37ZDrawing dynamic geometry figures online with natural language for junior high school geometry10.19173/irrodl.v13i5.12171492-3831https://doaj.org/article/58655f839cd941708ea1b592d9315daf2012-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1217https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 This paper presents a tool for drawing dynamic geometric figures by understanding the texts of geometry problems. With the tool, teachers and students can construct dynamic geometric figures on a web page by inputting a geometry problem in natural language. First we need to build the knowledge base for understanding geometry problems. With the help of the knowledge base engine InfoMap, geometric concepts are extracted from an input text. The concepts are then used to output a multistep JavaSketchpad script, which constructs the dynamic geometry figure on a web page. Finally, the system outputs the script as an HTML document that can be visualized and read with an internet browser. Furthermore, a preliminary evaluation of the tool showed that it produced correct dynamic geometric figures for over 90% of problems from textbooks. With such high accuracy, the system produced by this study can support distance learning for geometry students as well as distance learning in producing geometry content for instructors. Wing-Kwong WongSheng-Kai YinChang-Zhe YangAthabasca University PressarticleNatural language understandingDynamic geometryJavaSketchpadGeometry educationKnowledge constructionSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 13, Iss 5 (2012)
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description	This paper presents a tool for drawing dynamic geometric figures by understanding the texts of geometry problems. With the tool, teachers and students can construct dynamic geometric figures on a web page by inputting a geometry problem in natural language. First we need to build the knowledge base for understanding geometry problems. With the help of the knowledge base engine InfoMap, geometric concepts are extracted from an input text. The concepts are then used to output a multistep JavaSketchpad script, which constructs the dynamic geometry figure on a web page. Finally, the system outputs the script as an HTML document that can be visualized and read with an internet browser. Furthermore, a preliminary evaluation of the tool showed that it produced correct dynamic geometric figures for over 90% of problems from textbooks. With such high accuracy, the system produced by this study can support distance learning for geometry students as well as distance learning in producing geometry content for instructors.
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title	Drawing dynamic geometry figures online with natural language for junior high school geometry
title_short	Drawing dynamic geometry figures online with natural language for junior high school geometry
title_full	Drawing dynamic geometry figures online with natural language for junior high school geometry
title_fullStr	Drawing dynamic geometry figures online with natural language for junior high school geometry
title_full_unstemmed	Drawing dynamic geometry figures online with natural language for junior high school geometry
title_sort	drawing dynamic geometry figures online with natural language for junior high school geometry
publisher	Athabasca University Press
publishDate	2012
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Drawing dynamic geometry figures online with natural language for junior high school geometry

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