Aspect2Labels: A novelistic decision support system for higher educational institutions by using multi-layer topic modelling approach

Shabir Hussain, Muhammad Ayoub, Ghulam Jilani, Yang Yu, Akmal Khan, Junaid Abdul Wahid, Muhammad Farhan Ali Butt, Guangqin Yang, Dietmar P. F. Möller, Weiyan Hou

Abstract: Highlights•Educational data mining is performed for higher educational institutions.•Aspect2Labels, a multi-layer topic modelling framework to perform annotation.•Proposed three rule-based algorithms for aspect extraction, validation, and mapping.•Two data filtering techniques proposed to resolve sparsity and high dimensionality.