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Automatically Generating an e-Textbook on the Web

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Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2004 (ICWL 2004)

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Abstract

Nowadays, people tend to learn from the Web because it is convenient, and rich of free information. One significant means of learning on the Web is by submitting a query to a search engine, and browsing through the results to find relevant information. Although in many cases, the search engine works quite well, the results returned are often not appropriate for the learning purpose. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to automatically generate an E-textbook for a user specified topic hierarchy. Such a technology can ease the learning process to a great extent. The validity of our approach is verified through a case study.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Jing Chen, Qing Li, Liping Wang & Weijia Jia

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  1. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Wenyin Liu

  2. Key Laboratory of Pervasive Computing, Ministry of Education Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Yuanchun Shi

  3. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Qing Li

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Chen, J., Li, Q., Wang, L., Jia, W. (2004). Automatically Generating an e-Textbook on the Web. In: Liu, W., Shi, Y., Li, Q. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2004. ICWL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27859-7_5

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