This paper presents a case-study of automatic construction of a hypertext from a large full-text document. The document we used as input of the automatic authoring process is a well-known textbook of Information Retrieval (IR). We explain in detail the steps performed to transform the textbook into a hyper-textbook. A hyper-textbook is the hypertextual equivalent of a textbook, in the same way ...

Although perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are two important factors which could directly influence the acceptance of technology and actual usage for digital textbook, less attention has been paid to children’s mobile digital textbook usage. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate and empirically validate the perceived usefulness and the perceived ease of use by elem...

among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) classroom where it provides the primary source of linguistic input. the wealth of published material for english language teaching (elt) available in the mark...

The purpose of this article was to review published research literature about the publishing process and the roles of participants in this process in the textbook publishing industry in the USA. The contents of books, collected works, reports and journal articles were analysed, and summaries of the contents were then organised chronologically to present a commentary on this topic. The results s...

As hypertext systems become widely available and their popularity increases, attention has turned to converting existing textual documents into hypertextual form. An important issue in this area is the fully automatic production of hypertext for learning, teaching, training, or self-referencing. Although many studies have addressed the problem of producing hy-per-books, either manually or semi-...

This extended abstract provides overview of the genre classification process in our submission for MIREX 2009. First, the scheme of extraction of features and use of them in the process of Musical Genre Classification is explained. In later part dataset and results obtained are described. Keywords—ISMIR, Genre, GMM, Timbre

In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of literature on genre-based approaches to writing instruction. However, scant attention has been paid to the use of genre-based scaffolding in the realm of academic writing. Hence, in an attempt to tackle the problems prevalent in academic writing, this study set out to investigate the effect of genre-based scaffolding through sentence start...