TY - GEN
T1 - Bridging the knowledge gap between research and education through textbooks
AU - Kraines, Steven B.
AU - Makino, Takaki
AU - Guo, Weisen
AU - Mizutani, Haruo
AU - Takagi, Toshihisa
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We describe a web-based system that helps undergraduate students learn about research at their university through the medium of textbooks. The system, called University on Textbooks, links textbooks to research articles written by university researchers, enabling people to navigate between introductory materials in textbooks and specific topics reported in research articles. Bidirectional links are generated from semantic statements created manually for topical passages from textbooks and abstracts of articles. The semantic statements are created using an ontology that is based on a description logic, so a reasoner can infer the semantic similarity between pairs of statements. To demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach, we present a prototype containing 100 semantic statements describing passages from an undergraduate life sciences textbook in Japanese that have been linked to semantic statements created for 392 research articles from life sciences.
AB - We describe a web-based system that helps undergraduate students learn about research at their university through the medium of textbooks. The system, called University on Textbooks, links textbooks to research articles written by university researchers, enabling people to navigate between introductory materials in textbooks and specific topics reported in research articles. Bidirectional links are generated from semantic statements created manually for topical passages from textbooks and abstracts of articles. The semantic statements are created using an ontology that is based on a description logic, so a reasoner can infer the semantic similarity between pairs of statements. To demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach, we present a prototype containing 100 semantic statements describing passages from an undergraduate life sciences textbook in Japanese that have been linked to semantic statements created for 392 research articles from life sciences.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79956319105&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-17407-0_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-17407-0_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79956319105
SN - 364217406X
SN - 9783642174063
VL - 6483 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 121
EP - 130
BT - Advances in Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2010 - 9th International Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 9th International Conference on Advances in Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2010
Y2 - 8 December 2010 through 10 December 2010
ER -