Title :
Preparation of Topical Reading Lists from the Link Structure of Wikipedia
Author :
Wissner-Gross, Alexander D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
Abstract :
Personalized reading preparation poses an important challenge for education and continuing education. Using a PageRank derivative and graph distance ordering, we show that personalized background reading lists can be generated automatically from the link structure of Wikipedia. We examine the operation of our new tool in professional, student, and interdisciplinary researcher learning models. Additionally, we present desktop and mobile interfaces for the generated reading lists
Keywords :
Web sites; educational administrative data processing; graph theory; portals; user interfaces; PageRank derivative; Wikipedia link structure; continuing education; desktop reading interface; graph distance ordering; interdisciplinary researcher learning model; mobile reading interface; personalized background reading list; personalized reading preparation; professional learning model; student learning model; topical reading list; Books; Computer industry; Continuing education; Educational institutions; Helicopters; Job shop scheduling; Natural languages; Physics education; Search engines; Wikipedia;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2006. Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kerkrade
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2632-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2006.1652568
