document enrichment

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

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...

Improving Content Comprehension and Knowledge Retention with Wikipedia

Wikipedia can function as an inter-knowledge domain glossary for identifying technical terms, jargons, acronyms, and abbreviations in documents, with anchor texts serving as the mentioned entities. There are more than ten million anchor texts that cover nearly all known knowledge domains. This wide coverage offers an opportunity for extracting terms from a document in the absence of a manually constructed glossary. This paper discusses how a state-of-the-art method of term...

Effect of Document Enrichment on e-Learning

In order to realize the idea of document enrichment we developed a tool called TermPedia which predicts and defines technical terms in educational text. The definitions are extracted from Wikipedia, and the technical terms are also linked to contextually relevant Wikipedia articles which provide further explanation for the definitions. This paper presents results from a user study that was carried out to determine the effect of document enrichment on e-learning...