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Similarity matching of computer science unit outlines in higher education
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Langan, G and Montgomery, J and Garg, S, Similarity matching of computer science unit outlines in higher education, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9992: Proceedings of the 29th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2016): Advances in Artificial Intelligence), 5-8 December 2016, Hobart, Tasmania, pp. 150-162. ISBN 978-3-319-50126-0 (2016) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Copyright 2016 Springer International Publishing AG.
DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50127-7_12
Abstract
With the globalisation of education, students may undertake higher education courses anywhere in the world. Yet there is variation between different universities’ offerings. Even though web search engines can help one to locate potentially similar courses or subjects offered by different universities, judging the degree of similarity between each of them is currently a manual process in which a student or staff member has to go through subject/unit descriptions within a course to understand the different topics taught. In this paper, we study the application of text mining to evaluate the similarity or overlap between different units and propose a system that can help students and staff to make these judgements. The unit or course descriptions are generally short, containing 100–200 words, and exhibit very wide diversity in the ways they are written. Experimental results using data from Australian and international universities demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed system in calculating the similarity between different computing units.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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Research Division: | Information and Computing Sciences |
Research Group: | Artificial intelligence |
Research Field: | Intelligent robotics |
Objective Division: | Information and Communication Services |
Objective Group: | Information systems, technologies and services |
Objective Field: | Information systems, technologies and services not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Langan, G (Mr Gaurav Langan) |
UTAS Author: | Montgomery, J (Dr James Montgomery) |
UTAS Author: | Garg, S (Dr Saurabh Garg) |
ID Code: | 118096 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Deposited By: | Information and Communication Technology |
Deposited On: | 2017-07-04 |
Last Modified: | 2018-02-01 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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