Developing a multilingual news reading environment for newspaper reading education

Yu Chieh Wu, Jie Chi Yang

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Abstract

Reading news is one of the most important learning activities in the education of the communication schools. Learners learn to improve the awareness and writing essay ability through observing contents inside the news. How to create the learning materials in a short time is still a gap between traditional communication education and information technology. In addition, the most challenge is that there embeds a huge amount of commercial ads and external links within a news page which usually mislead learners to read and explore further topics. To solve this, in this paper, we proposed a clean and pure news reading environment which makes it possible to touch up-to-date global news in our news corpus. It automatically crawls the daily news through the web without additional human effort. To preserve the news content, we also design a content extraction algorithm to keep the news content in the database is clean to read. Instructors can easily prepare and organize a set of news topics in this platform.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2013
Pages199-203
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2013 - Beijing, China
Duration: 15 Jul 201318 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2013

Conference

Conference2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period15/07/1318/07/13

Keywords

  • language learning
  • news reading; communication education; automatic news content extraction

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