Towards automated education demand-offer information monitoring: The information extraction

Author

Rudzajs, Peteris

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Theor. & Design, Riga Tech. Univ., Riga, Latvia

fYear

2012

fDate

16-18 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Dynamically changing work environment in knowledge economy causes the changes in knowledge requirements for labor. Therefore it becomes more and more important to be constantly aware of what education is currently demanded and what education is currently offered. The IT solution is vital to process various information sources, extract education information, and provide analysis mechanisms in automated manner. The education information extraction is detailed in this paper in the context of Education demand and offer information monitoring system by providing the workflow for semi-automatic skills extraction from the university course descriptions using developed term suggestion method.

Keywords

computerised monitoring; educational administrative data processing; educational courses; educational institutions; information retrieval; IT solution; automated education demand-offer information monitoring system; education information extraction; information sources; knowledge economy; semiautomatic skills extraction; term suggestion method; university course descriptions; Data mining; Dictionaries; Educational institutions; Measurement; Monitoring; education information; information extraction; monitoring system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 2012 Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

2151-1349

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1936-3

Electronic_ISBN

2151-1349

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RCIS.2012.6240464

Filename

6240464