TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a national syllabus repository for higher education in Ireland
AU - Joorabchi, Arash
AU - Mahdi, Abdulhussain E.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - With the significant growth in electronic education materials such as syllabus documents and lecture notes available on the Internet and intranets, there is a need for developing structured central repositories of such materials to allow both educators and learners to easily share, search and access them. This paper reports on our on-going work to develop a national repository for course syllabi in Ireland. In specific, it describes a prototype syllabus repository system for higher education in Ireland that has been developed by utilising a number of information extraction and document classification techniques, including a new fully unsupervised document classification method that uses a web search engine for automatic collection of training set for the classification algorithm. Preliminary experimental results for evaluating the system's performance are presented and discussed.
AB - With the significant growth in electronic education materials such as syllabus documents and lecture notes available on the Internet and intranets, there is a need for developing structured central repositories of such materials to allow both educators and learners to easily share, search and access them. This paper reports on our on-going work to develop a national repository for course syllabi in Ireland. In specific, it describes a prototype syllabus repository system for higher education in Ireland that has been developed by utilising a number of information extraction and document classification techniques, including a new fully unsupervised document classification method that uses a web search engine for automatic collection of training set for the classification algorithm. Preliminary experimental results for evaluating the system's performance are presented and discussed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=55249126390&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-87599-4_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-87599-4_20
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:55249126390
SN - 3540875980
SN - 9783540875987
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 197
EP - 208
BT - Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 12th European Conference, ECDL 2008, Proceedings
T2 - 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2008
Y2 - 14 September 2008 through 19 September 2008
ER -