Prerequisite learning is the task of identifying prerequisite relations among concepts, which is important for many AI-based educational applications. Previous approaches explore different kinds of learning resources to obtain useful features for predicting prerequisites. Early approaches use handcrafted features while recent approaches use neural networks to encode information of concepts. To further improve the results of prerequisite learning, we build concept graphs to include comprehensive information about concepts from open data and learning resources, and propose a Multi-view Transformer-based Network (MTN) to encode multi-view features of concepts in the graph. Multi-view features are fused to make accurate predictions of concept prerequisites. We evaluate our approach on four public datasets and compare it with recently published approaches. The results show that our approach can achieve state-of-the-art results in the task of prerequisite learning. The source code and data are available at https://github.com/kg-bnu/MTN .

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Multi-view Transformer-Based Network for Prerequisite Learning in Concept Graphs

  • Zhichun Wang,
  • Yifeng Shao,
  • Boci Peng,
  • Bangui Li,
  • Yun Li,
  • Qianren Wang,
  • Nijun Li

摘要

Prerequisite learning is the task of identifying prerequisite relations among concepts, which is important for many AI-based educational applications. Previous approaches explore different kinds of learning resources to obtain useful features for predicting prerequisites. Early approaches use handcrafted features while recent approaches use neural networks to encode information of concepts. To further improve the results of prerequisite learning, we build concept graphs to include comprehensive information about concepts from open data and learning resources, and propose a Multi-view Transformer-based Network (MTN) to encode multi-view features of concepts in the graph. Multi-view features are fused to make accurate predictions of concept prerequisites. We evaluate our approach on four public datasets and compare it with recently published approaches. The results show that our approach can achieve state-of-the-art results in the task of prerequisite learning. The source code and data are available at https://github.com/kg-bnu/MTN .