Abstract
Learning to read efficiently and effectively is emphasized at the elementary and high school levels. Finding books that children/youth are interested in reading, however, is a nontrivial task due to the diversity of topics and different readability levels covered in the huge volume of books available these days. Ideally, K-12 students can turn to book recommenders which suggest books that match their interests. However, since the preferences and reading levels of these students vary from one grade to another, books suggested by existing recommenders, which ignore the literacy skills and the personal interests of their users, may be unsuitable for the targeted audience. In this paper, we present additional design issues that should be applied in developing a book recommender based on BReK12, our previously-proposed book recommender for K-12 users, to further enhance the quality of its recommendations. BReK12, which performs content and readability analysis to identify books potentially appealing to its users, is extended to incorporate (i) a multi-criteria analysis that studies its users' complex and diverse interests and (ii) an enhanced readability-detection tool that determines precisely the readability levels of books which match the literary skills of its users.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | BooksOnline'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media, Co-located with CIKM 2012 |
Pages | 11-12 |
Number of pages | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 2012 5th ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media, BooksOnline 2012 - Co-located with CIKM 2012 - Maui, HI, United States Duration: 29 Oct 2012 → 29 Oct 2012 |
Conference
Conference | 2012 5th ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media, BooksOnline 2012 - Co-located with CIKM 2012 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Maui, HI |
Period | 29/10/12 → 29/10/12 |
Keywords
- Books
- K-12
- Readability
- Recommender
- User preferences