Developing Prognosis Tools to Identify Learning Difficulties in Children Using Machine Learning Technologies

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 490-500

  Loizou, Antonis ^a   Laouris, Yiannis ^a  

^a Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Automated prognosis tools; Learning difficulties; Machine Learning

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PROGNOSIS TOOLS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; EFFECTIVE TOOL; KOHONEN; LEARNING ABILITIES; LEARNING DIFFICULTIES; LEARNING POTENTIAL; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY; MACHINE-LEARNING; MULTI-MODAL; PROFILING SYSTEMS; SAN DIEGO; WASHINGTON; YOUNG CHILDREN;

DATA HANDLING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 80052268389     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-010-9052-5     Document Type: Article

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