An approach for automatic generation of adaptive hypermedia in education with multilingual knowledge discovery techniques

  • Authors:
  • Enrique Alfonseca;Pilar Rodríguez;Diana Pérez

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 29049 Madrid, Spain;Department of Computer Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 29049 Madrid, Spain;Department of Computer Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 29049 Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Education
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This work describes a framework that combines techniques from Adaptive Hypermedia and Natural Language processing in order to create, in a fully automated way, on-line information systems from linear texts in electronic format, such as textbooks. The process is divided into two steps: an off-line processing step, which analyses the source text, and an on-line step, which executes when a user connects to the system with a web browser, moment at which the contents and hyperlinks are generated. The framework has been implemented as the Welkin system, which has been used to build three adaptive on-line information sites in a quick and easy way. Some controlled experiments have been performed with real users aimed to provide positive feedback on the implementation of the system.