Title :
Improving Readability of Dyslexic Learners through Document Summarization
Author :
Nandhini, K. ; Balasundaram, S.R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Applic., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Tiruchirappalli, India
Abstract :
E-Learning that blends the internet, the web and the educational activities, is becoming one of the prominent ways for defining teaching and learning experiences as anywhere anytime process. Any teaching learning process must be designed to suit the needs of all and must consider all types of learners including people with disabilities. One of the major learning disabilities found related to learners is the problem of reading. Especially for dyslexic reading is a severe problem. In this regard, this paper focuses on the design of a summarization tool that provides a summary of reading material which helps the dyslexic to have a first level understanding of the content.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; handicapped aids; medical disorders; statistical analysis; teaching; text analysis; Internet; World Wide Web; content understanding; document summarization; dyslexic learner readability improving; dyslexic reading; e-learning; educational activity; frequently occurring words; learning disability; learning experience; people with disability; reading material summary; statistical approach; teaching; text summary; Electronic learning; Feature extraction; Machine learning algorithms; Materials; Visualization; Writing; Decision Tree Classifier; Dyslexic learner; E-Learning; Reading Problem; Summarization tool;
Conference_Titel :
Technology for Education (T4E), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1521-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4534-9
DOI :
10.1109/T4E.2011.49