Transformation of PDF textbooks into intelligent educational resources
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2020-07-06
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Alpizar Chacon, Isaac
van der Hart, Max
Wiersma, Zef S.
Theunissen, Lorenzo S.J.
Sosnovsky, Sergey
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Sosnovsky, Sergey
Brusilovsky, Peter
Baraniuk, Richard
Lan, Andrew
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Abstract
The paper presents Intextbooks - the system for automated conversion of PDF-based textbooks into intelligent educational Web resources. The papers focuses on the new component of Intextbooks responsible for transformation of PDF-based content into semantically-annotated HTML/CSS. The architecture of the system, the design of the client application rendering resulting textbooks and a short validation experiment demonstrating the quality of the transformation work-flow are presented.
Keywords
Adaptive textbooks, Digital textbooks, Educational resources, Intelligent textbooks, Interactive textbooks, Modeling textbooks, PDF to HTML, General Computer Science
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Alpizar-Chacon, I, van der Hart, M, Wiersma, Z S, Theunissen, L S J & Sosnovsky, S 2020, Transformation of PDF textbooks into intelligent educational resources. in S Sosnovsky, P Brusilovsky, R Baraniuk & A Lan (eds), iTextbooks 2020 : Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks 2020 : co-located with 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2020). vol. 2674, CEUR WS, pp. 4-16, 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks, iTextbooks 2020, Virtual, Online, 6/07/20., conference