DocumentCode :
637283
Title :
A text analytics-based approach to compute coverage, readability and comprehensibility of eBooks
Author :
Khurana, S. ; Relan, Mahima ; Singh, V.K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., South Asian Univ., New Delhi, India
fYear :
2013
fDate :
8-10 Aug. 2013
Firstpage :
256
Lastpage :
261
Abstract :
This paper presents our text analytics-based algorithmic formulation for qualitative evaluation of eBooks. Our algorithmic approach computes qualitative aspects of an eBook, particularly its coverage, readability and comprehensibility. Measurement of these qualitative aspects required parsing the eBook text and extracting different information from it such as the concepts described in the eBook. For computing coverage, we have used some standard reference documents in a novel manner. For readability, we have resorted to standard definition and metrics for readability described in some past works. The comprehensibility aspect computation is based on coherent, cohesive and sequentially progressive discussion of learning concepts described in the eBook. The qualitative aspects are quantified in terms of numerical values. The system is tested on a small but diverse dataset of about 30 eBooks. The results are validated by using external information about eBook popularity collected from the Word Wide Web, such as eBook review, and performing sentiment analysis on them. The results obtained give us a fair measure of qualitative account of an eBook on the parameters of coverage, readability and comprehensibility and demonstrates the usefulness of our algorithmic approach.
Keywords :
Web sites; computer aided instruction; electronic publishing; information retrieval; reviews; text analysis; Word Wide Web; comprehensibility aspect computation; document analysis; eBook review; eBook text; information extraction; learning concept; readability; sentiment analysis; text analytics-based approach; Artificial intelligence; Data mining; Educational institutions; Electronic publishing; Information retrieval; Sections; Standards; Comprehensibility; Concept Extraction; Qualitative Evaluation; Readability; Text Analytics; eBook;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Contemporary Computing (IC3), 2013 Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Noida
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0190-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IC3.2013.6612200
Filename :
6612200
Link To Document :
بازگشت