| Title | : | Creating Pedagogic Views from Wikipedia |
| Speaker | : | Ditty Mathew (IITM) |
| Details | : | Mon, 3 Sep, 2018 3:00 PM @ A M Turing Hall |
| Abstract: | : | Encyclopedic resources like Wikipedia or thesauri have good reference value and broad coverage,
but are not necessarily structured with the goal of assisting learning of concepts. An online text-
book, in contrast, is a pedagogic resource in that it has its content organized to realize specific tutoring goals. However, textbooks in their current form have definite limitations. Firstly, the content is often not dynamic, and does not adapt to learner requirements. Second, unlike Wikipedia,
textbooks are often not collaboratively authored, some are expensive, and many subjects have no
structured learning resources at all. Our work is motivated by the central question - How can we
effectively create a pedagogic view of content from encyclopedic resources?
This talk will be a walk through the challenges in compiling a pedagogic resource like a textbook on a given topic from relevant Wikipedia articles, and present an approach towards assisting users in this task. We present an algorithm that attempts to suggest the textbook structure from Wikipedia based on a set of seed concepts (chapters) provided by the user. We also conceptualize a decision support system where users can interact with the suggested book structure and the corresponding Wikipedia content to improve its pedagogic value. We evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm for identifying book structure both quantitatively and qualitatively. The outline of online textbooks is used for quantitative evaluation. We also propose a measure to quantify the pedagogic value of the suggested textbook structure and the corresponding book content. |
