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نموذج الفصول الدراسية المنطقية للتدريس الحقول العشوائية المشروطة في دورة NLP
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في هذه المقالة، نعرض ونناقش تجربتنا في تطبيق طريقة الفصول الدراسية المنطقية لتدريس الحقول العشوائية المشروطة في دورة معالجة اللغة الطبيعية.نقدم الأنشطة التي تطورناها مع علاقتها بنموذج التعقيد المعرفي (التصنيف الإزهار).بعد ذلك، نحن نقدم انعكاسات وتوقعاتنا للنموذج نفسه.بناء على التقييم حصلت من الطلاب، يبدو أن الطلاب يتعلمون حول هذا الموضوع وأيضا أن الطريقة مجزية عن بعض الطلاب.بالإضافة إلى ذلك، نناقش بعض أوجه القصور ونقترح حلول ممكنة لهم.نستنتج الورقة مع بعض الأعمال المستقبلية المحتملة.
In this article, we show and discuss our experience in applying the flipped classroom method for teaching Conditional Random Fields in a Natural Language Processing course. We present the activities that we developed together with their relationship to a cognitive complexity model (Bloom's taxonomy). After this, we provide our own reflections and expectations of the model itself. Based on the evaluation got from students, it seems that students learn about the topic and also that the method is rewarding for some students. Additionally, we discuss some shortcomings and we propose possible solutions to them. We conclude the paper with some possible future work.
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