Efficient Learning Strategy of Chinese Characters Based on Network Approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Yan, Xiaoyong ^a,b   Fan, Ying ^a   Di, Zengru ^a   Havlin, Shlomo ^c   Wu, Jinshan ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHIJIAZHUANG TIEDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; CHINESE; CHINESE CHARACTERS; DISTRIBUTED NODE WEIGHT STRATEGY; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LEARNING CURVE; LINGUISTICS; NETWORK LEARNING; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; CHINA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING;

EID: 84882649464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069745     Document Type: Article

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