EASY EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE COMPREHENSION: Applying TermPedia to Information Retrieval Knowledge Domain

Conference Paper Authors: Proscovia Olango, Gosse Bouma, Henny Klein

    • Abstract

    This paper provides a detailed description of how TermPedia which is a document enrichment tool, is applied to educational literature in order to help students easily understand their reading material. The paper assumes that technical terms are one of the major hindrances to document content comprehension. TermPedia has the ability to extract, define, and link technical terms to Wikipedia. It is expected that relevant term definitions and explanations will ease the comprehension of educational documents by students and thereby improve their reading speed and shorten the time they needed for knowledge acquisition.

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    Conference Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Volume 1, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, 6-8 May, 2011
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    The Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, The University of Groningen, Oude Kijk in ’t Jatstraat 26, Groningen, The Netherlandsp.olango@rug.nl, g.bouma@rug.nl

    Henny KleinDepartment of Informaiton Science, The University of Groningen, Groningen, The NetherlandsE.H.Klein@rug.nl