Empowering authors to diagnose comprehension burden in textbooks

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 967-975

  Agrawal, Rakesh ^a   Chakraborty, Sunandan ^a,b   Gollapudi, Sreenivas ^a   Kannan, Anitha ^a   Kenthapadi, Krishnaram ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

comprehension burden; concepts; data mining; diagnostic tool for authors; education; knowledge discovery; textbooks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC APPROACH; COMPREHENSION BURDEN; CONCEPTS; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; FORMAL DEFINITION; HIGH SCHOOL;

DATA MINING; DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCTS; EDUCATION;

TEXTBOOKS;

EID: 84866016455     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2339530.2339682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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