Information retrieval for language tutoring: An overview of the REAP project

Proceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 544-545

  Collins Thompson, Kevyn ^a   Callan, Jamie ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted learning; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-ASSISTED LEARNING; HYPERLINKED DOCUMENTS; LANGUAGE TUTORING; READER SPECIFIC PRACTISE (REAP);

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STUDENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 8644259400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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