Generation of Hypertext for Web-Based Learning Based on Wikification

This paper presents a preliminary study into the conversion of plain text documents into hypertext for web-based learning. The novelty of this approach is the generation of two types of hyperlinks: links to Wikipedia article for exploratory learning, and self-referencing links for elaboration and references. Hyper link generation is based on two rounds of wikification. The first round wikifies a set of source documents so that the wikified source documents can be semantically compared to Wikipedia articles using existing link-based measure techniques. The second round of wikification then evaluates each hyperlink in the wikified source documents and checks if there is a semantically related source document for replacing the current target Wikipedia article. While preliminary evaluation of a prototype implementation seemed feasible, relatively few self-referencing links could be generated using a test set of course text.