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Title: Adaptive Learning Material Recommendation in Online Language Education
Recommending personalized learning materials for online language learning is challenging because we typically lack data about the student’s ability and the relative difficulty of learning materials. This makes it hard to recommend appropriate content that matches the student’s prior knowledge. In this paper, we propose a refined hierarchical knowledge structure to model vocabulary knowledge, which enables us to automatically organize the authentic and up-to-date learning materials collected from the internet. Based on this knowledge structure, we then introduce a hybrid approach to recommend learning materials that adapts to a student’s language level. We evaluate our work with an online Japanese learning tool and the results suggest adding adaptivity into material recommendation significantly increases student engagement.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1657176
PAR ID:
10095418
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
ArXiv.org
ISSN:
2331-8422
Page Range / eLocation ID:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10893
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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