Enriching textbooks through data mining

Proceedings of the 1st ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Agrawal, Rakesh ^a   Gollapudi, Sreenivas ^a   Kenthapadi, Krishnaram ^a   Srivastava, Nitish ^b   Velu, Raja ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY; PROBLEM-BASED; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION; WEB CONTENT;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA MINING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

TEXTBOOKS;

EID: 79952345515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1926180.1926204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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