TY - GEN
T1 - Generation of hypertext for web-based learning based on wikification
AU - Lui, Andrew Kwok Fai
AU - Ng, Vanessa Sin Chun
AU - Tsang, Eddy K.M.
AU - Ho, Alex C.H.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper presents a preliminary study into the conversion of plain text documents into hypertext for web-based learning. The novelty of this approach is the generation of two types of hyperlinks: links to Wikipedia article for exploratory learning, and self-referencing links for elaboration and references. Hyperlink generation is based on two rounds of wikification. The first round wikifies a set of source documents so that the wikified source documents can be semantically compared to Wikipedia articles using existing link-based measure techniques. The second round of wikification then evaluates each hyperlink in the wikified source documents and checks if there is a semantically related source document for replacing the current target Wikipedia article. While preliminary evaluation of a prototype implementation seemed feasible, relatively few self-referencing links could be generated using a test set of course text.
AB - This paper presents a preliminary study into the conversion of plain text documents into hypertext for web-based learning. The novelty of this approach is the generation of two types of hyperlinks: links to Wikipedia article for exploratory learning, and self-referencing links for elaboration and references. Hyperlink generation is based on two rounds of wikification. The first round wikifies a set of source documents so that the wikified source documents can be semantically compared to Wikipedia articles using existing link-based measure techniques. The second round of wikification then evaluates each hyperlink in the wikified source documents and checks if there is a semantically related source document for replacing the current target Wikipedia article. While preliminary evaluation of a prototype implementation seemed feasible, relatively few self-referencing links could be generated using a test set of course text.
KW - hypertext generation
KW - web-based learning
KW - wikification
KW - wikipedia
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79960264353
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22383-9_23
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22383-9_23
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960264353
SN - 9783642223822
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 280
EP - 290
BT - Enhancing Learning Through Technology - Education Unplugged
T2 - 6th International Conference on Enhancing Learning Through Technology - Education Unplugged: Mobile Technologies and Web 2.0, ICT 2011
Y2 - 11 July 2011 through 13 July 2011
ER -