Understanding Children Arabic Educational Texts through Keywords Extraction, Ontology and Multimedia Elements
Jihad M. Aljaâ€™am, Masoud Udi Mwinyi, Sami Abdelrahim Elzeiny, Ali M. Jaoua
Journal of Information Technology Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2012.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jitr/fulltext/v3n2/4.pdf
Abstract:
Teaching children with intellectual disabilities is a challenging task. Instructors should repeat the same lessons several times. They should use also different methodologies to introduce the concepts and motivate the children and keep them engaged. These methodologies include: reading texts, showing images, touching items, taking children to sites, and even using the taste and smell senses. The objective of this work is to develop a system that can assist the children to improve their understanding of simple educational texts related to specific domain through multimedia technology. We use formal concepts analysis to extract keywords from the texts and generate the graphical user interfaces. We link the keywords with the multimedia elements (i.e., images and clips) which are retrieved from Google search engine by using Google APIs features. We build also databases of keywords with their synonyms in both Arabic and English and the corresponding multimedia elements. Every student can have his/her own database that contains the objects that he/she learnt. The instructors can select the appropriate multimedia elements according to the levels of theirs students. They can input the education text, set the domain, and build specific multimedia contents that can fit with every student in the classroom.