Providing Insights for Open-Response Surveys via End-to-End Context-Aware Clustering

Teachers often conduct surveys in order to collect data from a predefined group of students to gain insights into topics of interest. When analyzing surveys with open-ended textual responses, it is extremely time-consuming, labor-intensive, and difficult to manually process all the responses into an insightful and comprehensive report. In the analysis step, traditionally, the teacher has to read each of the responses and decide on how to group them in order to extract insightful information. Even though it is possible to group the responses only using certain keywords, such an approach would…Apple Machine Learning Research