Semantic search over MOOC aggregator using query expansion
2017 International Conference on Energy, Communication, Data Analytics and Soft Computing (ICECDS), 2017
Due to the widespread of internet, online education is gaining popularity. In the field of educat... more Due to the widespread of internet, online education is gaining popularity. In the field of education, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are used in delivering learning content to any person who wants to take the course with no constraint on attendance. The courses by different providers may differ in session timing, price, difficulty level etc. Hence a user has to visit every MOOC provider's site and go through the course details. To make this task user-friendly, a Information aggregator is used which can aggregate online courses from multiple course providers. Before aggregating these courses from different MOOC's, data preprocessing is performed. And to combat the limitations of stemming, we are using lemmatization. In Information Retrieval, one of the important tasks is retrieving relevant information. However an important issue for retrieval effectiveness is the vocabulary mismatch problem. User query is often too short and may not contain relevant terms. These issues are handled by query expansion. User query terms are enriched with additional semantically related terms like synonyms using a dictionary or Wordnet.
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