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In recent years, online education has been given more and more attention with the widespread use of the internet. The teaching procedure divides space and makes time for online learning; though teachers cannot control the learners accurately, the state of education calculates learners’ learning situation. This paper explains that the discourse analysis method is utilized to examine the online teaching behavior of teachers and student behavior like class attendance, how many are active in class, and learning behavior in online education. Also, discourse analysis will optimize and enhance the classification of the text understood according to their language. After pre-processing, feature extraction was done by utilizing Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency, and feature selection was calculated via utilizing chi-square examination for teacher discourse like learning behavior, languages understood by students, and language types. Moreover, the machine learning-based classification technique Support Vector Machine (SVM) is considered to analyze the teacher discourse in class automatically, and results are compared with existing techniques.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, 638060, Tamilnadu, India

    E. Gothai

  2. School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT Bhopal University, Kotrikalan Village, Sehore Sistrict, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

    S. Saravanan

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Indu Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sheriguda, Ibrahimpatnam, R.R. Dist, Hyderabad, 501510, India

    C. Thirumalai Selvan

  4. Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Guna, 473226, India

    Ravi Kumar

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Gothai, E., Saravanan, S., Selvan, C.T. et al. Optimized machine learning model discourse analysis. Educ Inf Technol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-024-12515-3

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