Automatically characterizing resource quality for educational digital libraries

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 221-230

  Bethard, Steven ^a   Wetzler, Philipp ^a   Butcher, Kirsten ^b   Martin, James H ^a   Sumner, Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational digital library; Learning resource; Machine learning; Quality

Indexed keywords

CURATION; DIGITAL RESOURCES; EDUCATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES; EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE; KEY DIMENSIONS; KEY INDICATOR; KEY QUALITY INDICATORS; LEARNING RESOURCE; MACHINE-LEARNING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEB CONTENT;

EDUCATION; ROBOT LEARNING;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 70450278680     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555400.1555436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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