Identifying enrichment candidates in textbooks

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, WWW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 483-492

  Agrawal, Rakesh ^a   Gollapudi, Sreenivas ^a   Kannan, Anitha ^a   Kenthapadi, Krishnaram ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

concepts; dispersion; education; readability; textbooks

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTS; DECISION MODELS; MODEL PARAMETERS; READABILITY; SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION; WEB RESOURCES;

DISPERSIONS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TEXTBOOKS;

EID: 79955128884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1963192.1963362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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