Presenting mathematical web pages for understanding lectures

Abstract

Opportunities continue to grow for science students to search the web for mathematical terms used in engineering lectures. However, it is not easy to obtain sets of web documents that are unified and closely related to each other. In this paper, we propose a system that obtains suitable sets of web pages. First, we adopt a syllabus that represents a lecture and use it as input data. Then our system presents sets of mathematical web pages related to the input syllabus. The system also includes a mathematical dictionary, language processing algorithms, stop lists, and ranking algorithms. We describe how it searches for useful sets of web pages and presents them to users. We also show the results of two experiments. The first determined the most suitable values of the system's parameters. In the second, engineering graduate students evaluated the relevance among five syllabi and the presented web pages.