Reflective writing analysis approach based on semantic concepts: An evaluation of wordnet affect efficiency

Huda Alrashidi, Mike Joy

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Abstract

Automatic analysis of reflective writing involves identifying indicator strings and using string matching or rule matching processes, which flag sections of a text containing reflective material. The problem with the string-based approach is its inability to deal with knowledge inference from the text, such as the content, context, relevance, clarity, and interconnection, which can be identified by semantic analysis. The semantic analysis depends mainly on mapping the text into stored knowledge sources, such as WordNet, and analyzing the associations in the underlying knowledge source. In this paper, a semantic-based approach for reflective writing analysis is proposed, in which the input text, which is being analyzed, is mapped into semantic concepts. Moreover, a machine learning (ML) approach for reflective writing identification and analysis has been implemented to overcome the limitations of rule execution and keyword matching. The proposed approach addresses the efficiency of using several effective concepts, correlated with effective words that are identified in WordNet-Affect. The input text is classified into reflective or non-reflective categories, after which the input text is classified into various reflective classes, based on the type of the document. Moreover, the concepts in WordNet-Affect are evaluated and analyzed to demonstrate their effects on classification and labeling tasks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Systems and Applications - Proceedings of the 2019 Intelligent Systems Conference IntelliSys Volume 2
EditorsYaxin Bi, Rahul Bhatia, Supriya Kapoor
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages321-333
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783030295127
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
EventIntelligent Systems Conference, IntelliSys 2019 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 5 Sep 20196 Sep 2019

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume1038
ISSN (Print)2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)2194-5365

Conference

ConferenceIntelligent Systems Conference, IntelliSys 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period5/09/196/09/19

Keywords

  • Automatic
  • Classification
  • Reflective
  • Semantic-based
  • WordNet-Affect

Funding Agency

  • Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences

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