RE: Digital Textbooks and Locally-stored Student and Educational Data

Can you please just provide a short summary of what you are missing from the Web platform? Or exactly what your goals are. Flooding the TAG list with RDF and citations is not helping make a case for what you need. 

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Marcos Caceres

On August 5, 2014 at 6:11:45 PM, Adam Sobieski (adamsobieski@hotmail.com) wrote:
> W3C Technical Architecture Group,
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> The aforementioned examples indicate relational algebra on trees, routing queries  
> across an API to components which can process such queries utilizing student data, outputting  
> content back across the API into document object models. The solutions described also  
> process events (see also: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/), sequences  
> of such events and event data, occurring in document contexts, of use to updating student  
> models.
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> The aforementioned 2013 Huebner article and other EDM survey publications:
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> Huebner, Richard A. "A survey of educational data-mining research." Res. High. Educ.  
> J 19 (2013): 1-13.
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> Romero, Cristóbal, and Sebastian Ventura. "Educational data mining: A survey from  
> 1995 to 2005." Expert systems with applications 33, no. 1 (2007): 135-146.
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> Baker, Ryan SJD, and Kalina Yacef. "The state of educational data mining in 2009: A review  
> and future visions." JEDM-Journal of Educational Data Mining 1, no. 1 (2009): 3-17.  
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> Romero, Cristóbal, and Sebastián Ventura. "Educational data mining: a review of the  
> state of the art." Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews,  
> IEEE Transactions on 40, no. 6 (2010): 601-618.
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> EDM publications are available at:
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> http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2014/index.php?page=proceedings
> https://sites.google.com/a/iis.memphis.edu/edm-2013-conference/proceeding  
> http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2012/index.php?page=proceedings
> http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2011/proceedings-2
> http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2010/?page_id=278
> http://www.educationaldatamining.org/EDM2009/index.php?page=proceedings  
> http://www.educationaldatamining.org/EDM2008/index.php?page=proceedings  
> (http://www.educationaldatamining.org/IEDMS/events)
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> The local storage and local computing hypothesis intends to provide the advantages  
> of EDM science, such as textbook personalization, while providing students data privacy  
> as per local components, locally-stored data and browser interoperabilities, JavaScript  
> API and document markup processing models, for enhancing digital textbook functionality.  
> Scientists are optimistic about graphics card hardware in tablet and laptop computers  
> as digital textbooks increase in popularity for interactive 3D graphical diagrams  
> and GPGPU computing.
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> Another example, indicated for scalability, more technically advanced than selecting  
> or picking from options or sorting options utilizing student models, adjusting digital  
> textbook layout, style or content based upon student data, is the natural language generation  
> of semantics.
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> Example 4: Generating natural language for individual users, utilizing semantic data  
> in document contexts.
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> Bouayad-Agha, N., G. Casamayor, and L. Wanner. "Natural language generation and semantic  
> web technologies." Semantic Web Journal (2012).
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> Mellish, Chris, and Xiantang Sun. "The semantic web as a Linguistic resource: Opportunities  
> for natural language generation." Knowledge-Based Systems 19, no. 5 (2006): 298-303.  
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> Sun, Xiantang, and Chris Mellish. "Domain independent sentence generation from RDF  
> representations for the Semantic Web." In Combined Workshop on Language-Enabled Educational  
> Technology and Development and Evaluation of Robust Spoken Dialogue Systems, European  
> Conference on AI, Riva del Garda, Italy. 2006.
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> Kind regards,
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> Adam Sobieski
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