An Automated Mapping Process Using NLP Technique To Correlate Program Objectives And Outcomes Offered By Educational Institutions.

In this technology evolving era expansion of higher education sector is essential and is getting multiplies every year. Accreditation is the principal means of providing society with reliable information on quality of education offered by the institutions along with the expansion. The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) is a quality assurance scheme for higher technical education and conducts evaluation of programs offered by technical institutions on the basis of various criteria include but not limited to Vision, Mission and Programme Educational Objectives (PEOs), Programme Outcomes (POs), Courseoutcomes (COs) etc.. The correlation (mapping) between the POs and the COs is to be provided in order to establish the contribution of the POs towards the attainment of the PEOs. The mapping process facilitates the institute to judge the overall effectiveness of its own processes. Mapping process requires an unlimited amount of human effort, time and patience. To reduce human task and time of mapping this paper proposes an automated mapping technique using natural language processing technique. To ensure fast and efficient mapping this approach adopts Bloom\'s taxonomy based lemmatization technique and wordnet based semantic analysis that facilitates the institute to judge the overall effectiveness of its own processes.