Study level

Vacation research experience scheme

Faculty/School

Science and Engineering Faculty

School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics

Topic status

We're looking for students to study this topic.

Supervisors

Professor Wageeh Boles
Position
Professor
Division / Faculty
Science and Engineering Faculty
Dr Sam Cunningham-Nelson
Position
Lecturer
Division / Faculty
Science and Engineering Faculty

Overview

Textual data contains a large amount of embedded information. This text information is easily extracted by humans, but is difficult for machines to interpret.

Using various textual analysis methods some information can be drawn out from pieces of text. An example includes finding the confidence in student-written answers.

Research activities

Various text analysis methods will be explored to extract information from student-written pieces of text. This includes uncovering patterns and insights.

Available datasets to analyse include:

  • student response data
  • student survey data
  • movie review data
  • medical data.

Outcomes

Upon conclusion of this research we expect to develop new methods for analysing student understanding within written text.

Skills and experience

To be considered for this project, you should have some skills and/or experience with Python programming and machine learning.

Keywords

Contact

Contact the supervisor for more information.