TitleSemantics or Standards for Curriculum Search?
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsMarshall, B, Reitsma, R, Cyr, MN
Conference NameProceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 181-182
Date Published2007
Conference LocationNew York, NY
KeywordsAccounting, BIS
Abstract

Aligning digital library resources with national and state educational standards to help K-12 teachers search for relevant curriculum is an important issue in the digital library community. Aligning standards from different states promises to help teachers in one state find appropriate materials created and cataloged elsewhere. Although such alignments provide a powerful means for crosswalking standards and curriculum across states, alignment matrices are intrinsically sparse. Hence, we hypothesize that such sparseness may cause significant numbers of false negatives when used for searching curriculum. Our preliminary results confirm the false negative hypothesis, demonstrate the usefulness of term-based techniques in addressing the false negative problem, and explore ways to combine term occurrence data with standards correlations.

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