Title :
An advanced organizer for asynchronous discussion forums
Author :
Lui, Andrew K. ; Kwan, Reggie ; Li, Sandy C.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Open Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China
Abstract :
This paper presents an advanced organizer called SmartTag as a solution to ease the effort in identifying relevant messages in asynchronous discussion forums. SmartTag includes two tools for solving the problem: first, a message organizer for tagging relevant messages for future references, and second, a message filter that computationally evaluates the relevance of new messages for a user based on the personal preferences of this and other users. SmartTag employs techniques in statistical text analysis, recommender systems and collaborative filtering.
Keywords :
Internet; educational computing; electronic messaging; information filtering; statistical analysis; text analysis; SmartTag; asynchronous discussion forum organizer; collaborative filtering; message filter; message organization; personal preference; recommender systems; relevant message identification; statistical text analysis; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Discussion forums; Educational technology; Filtering; Filters; Recommender systems; Tagging; Text analysis; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2005. ICALT 2005. Fifth IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2338-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2005.45
