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        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1648-5831</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
        </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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                <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU.2015.02</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2015.02</article-id>
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                <subject>Article</subject>
            </subj-group>
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                        <title-group>
            <article-title>Application of Interactive Classification System in University Study Course Comparison</article-title>
        </title-group>
                        <contrib-group>
                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>BIRZNIECE</surname>
                    <given-names>Ilze</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:ilze.birzniece@rtu.lv">ilze.birzniece@rtu.lv</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_000"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">Riga Technical University, Study Department
Kalku street 1, Riga, LV-1658</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>RUDZAJS</surname>
                    <given-names>Peteris</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:peteris.rudzajs@rtu.lv">peteris.rudzajs@rtu.lv</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_001"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_001">iga Technical University, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
Institute of Applied Computer Systems
Kalku street 1, Riga, LV-1658</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>KALIBATIENE</surname>
                    <given-names>Diana</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:diana.kalibatiene@vgtu.lt">diana.kalibatiene@vgtu.lt</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_002"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_002">ilnius Gediminas Technical University, Faculty of Fundamental Science
Department of Information Systems
Sauletekio al. 11, LT-10223</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>VASILECAS</surname>
                    <given-names>Olegas</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:olegas.vasilecas@vgtu.lt">olegas.vasilecas@vgtu.lt</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_003"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_003">ilnius Gediminas Technical University, Faculty of Fundamental Science
Department of Information Systems
Sauletekio al. 11, LT-10223</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>RENCIS</surname>
                    <given-names>Edgars</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:edgars.rencis@lumii.lv">edgars.rencis@lumii.lv</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_004"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_004">Riga Technical University, Institute of Telecommunications
Azenes street 12, Riga, LV-1048</aff>
                                </contrib-group>
                                                                                                                                                                                            <volume>14</volume>
                                <issue>1</issue>
                                    <fpage>13</fpage>
                        <lpage>34</lpage>
						<pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>13</day>
                                    <month>04</month>
                        <year>2015</year>
        </pub-date>
                                                        <abstract>
                        <p>The growing amount of information in the world has increased the need for computerized classification of different objects. This situation is present in higher education as well where the possibility of effortless detection of similarity between different study courses would give the opportunity to organize student exchange programmes effectively and facilitate curriculum management and development. This area which currently relies on manual time-consuming expert activities could benefit from application of smartly adapted machine learning technologies. Data in this problem domain is complex leading to inability for automatic classification approaches to always reach the desired result in terms of classification accuracy. Therefore, our approach suggests an automated/semi-automated classification solution, which incorporates both machine learning facilities and interactive involvement of a domain expert for improving classification results. The system&#039;s prototype has been implemented and experiments are carried out. This interactive classification system allows to classify educational data, which often comes in unstructured or semi-structured, incomplete and/or insufficient form, thus reducing the number of misclassified instances significantly in comparison with the automatic machine learning approach.</p>
                    </abstract>
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            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>machine learning</kwd>
                        <kwd>interactive classification</kwd>
                        <kwd>inductive learning</kwd>
                        <kwd>curricula comparison</kwd>
                    </kwd-group>
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