This document discusses analyzing the relationship between the text editing process and evaluation of written texts. It proposes a new metric called the Editing Operation Indicator (EOI) to measure writing activity. An experiment was conducted where students wrote texts that were evaluated and revised. The relationship between evaluation scores and EOIs was analyzed. For initial texts there was low correlation between scores and EOIs, but for revised texts there was partial correlation, especially with improvement scores. This indicates EOIs may help detect text improvement. Further analysis with more data could help guide writing instruction in real-time.
Relationship Between Text Editing Process and Evaluation
1. Future
University
Hakodate
Analysis of Relationship Between
Text Editing Process
and Evaluation of Written Text
in Logical Writing
Michiko Oba1 Taku Yamaguchi2 Shigeko Takahashi3 Tatsuo Kobayashi4
1 Future University Hakodate (FUN)
2 Independent Researcher
3 Heartiness Co., Ltd.
4 Scholex Co., Ltd.
2. Agenda
1. Background
2. Previous Research
3. Issues and Approach
4. Experiment
5. Conclusion
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4. Background
n At universities, logical writing ability is required.
n The text editing operations record is useful for
the analysis of the intellectual process of writing.
pDeveloped a text editing system which records text
editing operations.
n Aim to apply this analysis to writing classes at
schools.
n We report examine the results of an analysis of
the relationship between the text editing process
on our system and the evaluations of the written
text.
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6. Measurement and analysis of writing activity
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Topic
Writer
Writing
Analytics
7. The time-series change of editing target
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Topic
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Writing
Analytics
8. Co-occurrence Matrix of the Editing Operation
Public
work
sheet
for
presentation
evaluation
Example
of
Co-‐occurrence
Matrix
of
the
Editing
Operation
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10. Issues
1. In order to foster logical writing abilities and
programming skills, it is not enough to
analyze the relationship between the
respective results.
→ Analyze the relationship between thought
process and creation process and good or bad
result
2. Analyze their correlation statistically that
activity we need some idea: editing activities
are discontinuous event series , and
evaluation score for output text is scalar data
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11. Approach for Issue1
nIssue 1:Analyze the relationship between the
writing activity and evaluation scores of the
output text
pUse an editing tool which records editing
operations in writing classes
pScore the output text from several points of view
whether it is logical and easy-to-understand.
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12. Approach for Issue2
nA scalar index derived from co- occurrence
matrix of text editing operations
pThe index should have a property that when the
next editing target is near then that index value is
low, and when it is far from the previous target
then that index value is high.
pEOI:Editing Operation Indicators
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15. Subjects and Theme of writing
nSubjects
p38 students in business writing class in 3rd- and
4th grade in O University.
nTheme of the writing
p ”glossary” of ”smartphone”.
p Text must be written within 200 characters. The
supposed reader of the text is a person in 60’s .
He/She has never used smartphones but feature
phones (Garakae).
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16. Worksheet for the experiment
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23. Conclusion
n Proposal
p We introduced a new scalar index EOI (Editing Operation Indicator) for
measuring writing activities.
p We proposed a method to analyze the relationship between writing activity and
text evaluation score.
n Experiment and Result
p We applied the proposed method to actual writing exercises and analyzed the
relationship between the evaluation scores of texts and EOI, for the initial text
and revised texts based on the reviews.
p The relation with writing activity appears due to the degree of improvement
score. These make it possible to detect text improving situation observing EOI
value and change.
p We would like to make use of the result for timely guidance for writing.
n Issue and Future Plans
p Investigate with more experimental data
p Consider and analyze another EOI
p Real-time analysis method using EOI, visualization, way to alert, and so on
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