Personalized text content summarizer for mobile learning: An automatic text summarization system with relevance based language model

Guangbing Yang, Dunwei Wen, Kinshuk, Nian Shing Chen, Erkki Sutinen

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    Abstract

    Although millions of text contents and multimedia published on the Web have potential to be shared as the learning contents for mobile learning, effectively extracting useful information from them is an extremely difficult problem. Oft-decried information overloading is the main issue to impede this potential. Many approaches have been proposed to revise and reinforce content to provide the appropriate delivery for mobile learning. However, approaches of manually converting content to suit the mobile learning require a huge effort on the part of the teachers and the instructional designers. Automatic text summarization can reduce this cost significantly, but it may have negative impact on the understanding of the meaning conveyed, as well as the risk of producing a standard summary for all learners without reflecting their interests and preferences. In this paper, a personalized text-based content summarizer is introduced to address an approach to help mobile learners to retrieve and process information more quickly, based on their interests and preferences. In this work, probabilistic language modeling techniques are adapted to build a user model and an extractive text summarization system to generate the personalized and automatic summary for mobile learning. Experimental results have indicated that the proposed solution provides a proper and efficient approach to help mobile learners by summarizing important content quickly and adaptively.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - 2012 IEEE 4th International Conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2012
    Pages90-97
    Number of pages8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    Event2012 IEEE 4th International Conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2012 - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
    Duration: 18 Jul. 201220 Jul. 2012

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - 2012 IEEE 4th International Conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2012

    Conference

    Conference2012 IEEE 4th International Conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2012
    Country/TerritoryIndia
    CityHyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
    Period18/07/1220/07/12

    Keywords

    • component
    • content processing
    • mobile learning
    • multiple-Bernoullio models
    • personalized text summarization
    • relevance modelling

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