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Answering academic questions for education by recommending cyberlearning resources

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  • Xiaozhong Liu
  • Han Jia

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In this study, we design an innovative method for answering students' or scholars' academic questions (for a specific scientific publication) by automatically recommending e‐learning resources in a cyber‐infrastructure‐enabled learning environment to enhance the learning experiences of students and scholars. By using information retrieval and metasearch methodologies, different types of referential metadata (related Wikipedia pages, data sets, source code, video lectures, presentation slides, and online tutorials) for an assortment of publications and scientific topics will be automatically retrieved, associated, and ranked (via the language model and the inference network model) to provide easily understandable cyberlearning resources to answer students' questions. We also designed an experimental system to automatically answer students' questions for a specific academic publication and then evaluated the quality of the answers (the recommended resources) using mean reciprocal rank and normalized discounted cumulative gain. After examining preliminary evaluation results and student feedback, we found that cyberlearning resources can provide high‐quality and straightforward answers for students' and scholars' questions concerning the content of academic publications.

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  • Xiaozhong Liu & Han Jia, 2013. "Answering academic questions for education by recommending cyberlearning resources," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 64(8), pages 1707-1722, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:64:y:2013:i:8:p:1707-1722
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.22851
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