Thematic analysis of 18 years of physics education research conference proceedings using natural language processing

We have used an unsupervised machine learning method called latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to thematically analyze all papers published in the Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings between 2001 and 2018. By looking at co-occurrences of words across the data corpus, this technique has...

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Main Authors: Tor Ole B. Odden, Alessandro Marin, Marcos D. Caballero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-06-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010142