WTC corpus questions concentrate in Science & Mathematics (55.66%) and over half are causal HOW/WHY questions¶

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q2 i? More than half of WTC questions fall in Science & Mathematics (55.66%), followed by Society & Culture (12.28%) and Health (7.77%). → Zhaozhen Xu 2024 q2 i? The most frequent question type is WHY (26.34%) followed by HOW (24.56%), which the authors read as further thinking by questioners. → Zhaozhen Xu 2024 (2) q2 i? The theme HOW + Science & Mathematics is the largest of the 90 themes with 1,387 questions. → Zhaozhen Xu 2024 (3)

Evidence¶

Zhaozhen Xu 2024¶

Zhaozhen Xu, Amelia Howarth, Nicole Briggs, Nello Cristianini. (2024). Understanding Visitors' Curiosity in a Science Centre with Deep Question Processing Network. Int J Artif Intell Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-023-00377-8

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Automated topic classification of the 8,600-question WTC corpus by QBERT-RR, reported in the result discussion section. The article prints the topic shares: Science & Mathematics 55.66%, Society & Culture 12.28%, Health 7.77%.

"The automated QT analysis of the corpus revealed that more than half of the questions are in the domain of Science & Mathematics (55.66%), followed by Society & Culture (12.28%), and then by Health (7.77%)."

Zhaozhen Xu 2024 (2)¶

Zhaozhen Xu, Amelia Howarth, Nicole Briggs, Nello Cristianini. (2024). Understanding Visitors' Curiosity in a Science Centre with Deep Question Processing Network. Int J Artif Intell Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-023-00377-8

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Keyword-based type classification of the WTC corpus reported in the result discussion. The article prints WHY at 26.34% and HOW at 24.56%, and elsewhere notes more than 50% of questions are causal HOW/WHY types.

"The most frequently asked type of question is the type WHY (26.34%) followed by HOW (24.56%)."

Zhaozhen Xu 2024 (3)¶

Zhaozhen Xu, Amelia Howarth, Nicole Briggs, Nello Cristianini. (2024). Understanding Visitors' Curiosity in a Science Centre with Deep Question Processing Network. Int J Artif Intell Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-023-00377-8

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Cross-tabulation of the nine question types and ten topics into 90 themes (Fig. 5). The article reports the HOW + Science & Mathematics theme contains 1,387 questions, the highest of all 90 themes.

"The theme " HOW + Science & Mathematics" contains 1,387 questions, which is the highest among all 90 themes."

Discussion¶

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