A Characterization of Word- Usage of Students Using Part-of-Speech Information

Abstract

The goal of the study presented in this paper is to understand attitudes and viewpoints of university students toward learning. We have been investigating text data obtained as answer texts for a term-end questionnaire in a class, and have found some interesting facts about students' attitude toward learning. This paper aims to investigate the texts further by using the part-of-speech (POS) information so that we can extract different features from those obtained in our former studies. In this paper, we develop a couple of distances between students so that we can see the features from different methods of measurement. As a result, we can find out some students who are different from other students regarding usage of POS.