Identifying Prerequisite Relations Between Concepts In Wikipedia

Abstract

Today, the Internet is flooded with a lot of learning resources, which are provided by different people. Because the relationship between these learning resources is unclear, it is difficult for instructors and students to use these learning resources for curriculum design and learning path planning. The order of learning resources is usually determined by the core knowledge concepts addressed in each resource. Therefore, identifying the prerequisite relations between concepts will be the key to solving the above problems. In this article, we take Wikipedia as an example and propose a new method for identifying concept prerequisite relations. We define five groups of features for concept pairs and predict whether there is a prerequisite relations between two concepts. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method exceeds the existing baselines.