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Automatically Generating an E-textbook on the Web

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Nowadays, people tend to learn from the Web because it is convenient, and rich of free information. The main means of learning on the Web is by submitting a query to a search engine, and subsequently browsing through the returned results to find relevant information. Although in many cases, a search engine such as Google works quite well, the results returned are often not appropriate for the learning purpose. In this paper, we present 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.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, PR China

    Jing Chen, Qing Li & Weijia Jia

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Chen, J., Li, Q. & Jia, W. Automatically Generating an E-textbook on the Web. World Wide Web 8, 377–394 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-005-1319-5

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