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Web metadata extraction and semantic indexing for learning objects extraction

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Secondary-school teachers are in constant need of finding relevant digital resources to support specific didactic goals. Unfortunately, generic search engines do not allow them to identify learning objects among semi-structured candidate educational resources, much less retrieve them by teaching goals. This article describes a multi-strategy approach for semantically guided extraction, indexing and search of educational metadata; it combines machine learning, concept analysis, and corpus-based natural language processing techniques. The overall model was validated by comparing extracted metadata against standard search methods and heuristic-based techniques for Classification Accuracy and Metadata Quality (as evaluated by actual teachers), yielding promising results and showing that this semantically guided metadata extraction can effectively enhance access and use of educational digital material.

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  1. http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/

  2. http://snowball.tartarus.org/

  3. http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/~lindig/src/concepts.html

  4. http://infomap-nlp.sourceforge.net/

  5. http://www.memoriachilena.cl

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile

    John Atkinson, Andrea Gonzalez & Mauricio Munoz

  2. Department of Informatics, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

    Hernan Astudillo

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This research was supported by FONDECYT (Chile) under grant number 1130035, and project grant Basal FB0821 CCTVal (Chile)

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Atkinson, J., Gonzalez, A., Munoz, M. et al. Web metadata extraction and semantic indexing for learning objects extraction. Appl Intell 41, 649–664 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-014-0557-6

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