Bayesian Modeling for Adaptive Hypermedia Systems


In this paper we show how Bayesian models can be used advantageously for various adaptation tasks in open WWW-based hypermedia systems. We discuss how to model user knowledge about different topics and learning dependencies between these topics, how to make inferences for calculating the system's belief on a user's knowledge based on observations from exercises/observations. We illustrate this discussion by examples from an educational hypermedia system we developed for our course "Introduction to Java Programming".

Keywords: User and discourse modeling and user adapted interaction.

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