Mining the Web to Suggest Concepts during Concept Map Construction
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چکیده
The most challenging aspect of constructing a concept map is not coming up with the list of concepts to include, but linking the concepts into meaningful propositions to create a coherent structure that reflects the person’s understanding of a domain. We present an algorithm which, during the process of concept mapping, takes the partially constructed map as input to mine the Web, and presents to the user a list of suggested concepts that are relevant to the map under construction. We previously reported that testing an initial implementation of the algorithm with a set of users during a concept-mapping workshop seemed to support its viability. In this paper, we present the results of an experiment in which users rank the relevance of concepts suggested by the algorithm during a concept map construction session, using an implementation of the algorithm in the CmapTools software.
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