Cohesion-Centered Analysis of CSCL Environments using ReaderBench

International audienceComputer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments have become a viable learning alternative from which valuable data can be extracted and used for advanced analyses centered on evaluating participants' involvement and their interactions. Such automated assessments are implemented within our ReaderBench framework, a Natural Language Processing platform that contains multiple advanced text analysis functionalities. The ReaderBench framework is based on Cohesion Network Analysis from which different sociograms, relying on semantic similarity, are generated in order to reflect interactions between participants. In this paper, we briefly describe the enforced mechanisms used to analyze three scenarios: individual chat conversations, virtual communities of practice and MOOCs