Automatic document metadata extraction using support vector machines
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Advances in domain independent linear text segmentation
NAACL 2000 Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference
Web-assisted annotation, semantic indexing and search of television and radio news
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Information Extraction: Distilling Structured Data from Unstructured Text
Queue - Social Computing
Towards a syllabus repository for computer science courses
Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Automatic syllabus classification
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Text segmentation by product partition models and dynamic programming
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
Development of a National Syllabus Repository for Higher Education in Ireland
ECDL '08 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
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Syllabi are important documents created by instructors for students. Gathering syllabi that are freely available, and creating useful services on top of the collection, will yield a digital library of value for the educational community. However, gathering and building a repository of syllabi is complicated by the unstructured nature of syllabus representation and the lack of a unified vocabulary for syllabus construction. In this paper, we propose an intelligent approach to automatically annotate freely-available syllabi from the Web to benefit the educational community through supporting services such as semantic search. We discuss our detailed process for converting unstructured syllabi to structured representations through entity recognition, segmentation, and association. Our evaluation results demonstrate the effiectiveness of our extractor and also suggest improvements. We hope our work will benefit not only users of our services but also people who are interested in building other genre-specific repositories.