The growth of open-access technical publications and other open-domain textual
information sources means that there is an increasing amount of online technical material …

We study the problem of providing recommendations to students that help them in their
studies. To address this problem, we present an approach of providing recommendations of …

Recent years have seen many breakthroughs in natural language processing (NLP),
transitioning it from a mostly theoretical field to one with many real-world applications …

Textbooks have a direct bearing on the quality of education imparted to the students.
Therefore, it is of paramount importance that the educational content of textbooks should …

We present our early explorations into developing a data mining based approach for
enhancing the quality of textbooks. We describe a diagnostic tool to algorithmically identify …

We propose a system for mining videos from the web for supplementing the content of
electronic textbooks in order to enhance their utility. Textbooks are generally organized into …

Good textbooks are organized in a systematically progressive fashion so that students
acquire new knowledge and learn new concepts based on known items of information. We …

Many textbooks written in emerging countries lack clear and adequate coverage of important
concepts. We propose a technological solution for algorithmically identifying those sections …

The community question-answering (CQA) websites such as Quora1, and Reddit2, and
YouTube provides a significant resource to the students. However, there is a redundancy …

Recent studies have shown the importance of using online videos along with textual
material in educational instruction, especially for better content retention and improved …