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Information Retrieval in Virtual Universities

Information Retrieval in Virtual Universities

Juha Puustjarvi, Päivi Poyry
Copyright: © 2006 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 12
ISSN: 1539-3100|EISSN: 1539-3119|ISSN: 1539-3100|EISBN13: 9781615202331|EISSN: 1539-3119|DOI: 10.4018/jdet.2006070104
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Puustjarvi, Juha, and Päivi Poyry. "Information Retrieval in Virtual Universities." IJDET vol.4, no.3 2006: pp.36-47. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdet.2006070104

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Puustjarvi, J. & Poyry, P. (2006). Information Retrieval in Virtual Universities. International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET), 4(3), 36-47. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdet.2006070104

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Puustjarvi, Juha, and Päivi Poyry. "Information Retrieval in Virtual Universities," International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET) 4, no.3: 36-47. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdet.2006070104

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Abstract

Information retrieval in the context of virtual universities deals with the representation, organization, and access to learning objects. The representation and organization of learning objects should provide the learner with an easy access to the learning objects. In this article, we give an overview of the ONES system, and analyze the relevance of two information retrieval models for virtual universities. We argue that keywords based search (i.e., the Boolean model), though well suited for Web searches, is overly coarse for virtual universities. Instead, the vector model, on which our implemented search engine is also based on, seems to be more appropriate as it provides similarity measure (i.e., the learning object having the best match is presented first). We also compare the performance of four algorithms for computing the similarities (matching).

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