International Business Machines Corporation

Sherman Robert Alpert

Peter Gustav Fairweather

James William Cooper

Richard Bruce Lam

Shumin Zhai

A computer-implemented system and method for translating node-and-link knowledge representations to an outline format is disclosed. The representation includes one or more node objects and one or more link objects. Each link object has a 'from node identifier' that identifies the node object in a concept map connected to a link's tail and a 'to node identifier' identifying the node object in the concept map to which the link object points. A translation program traverses all of the node objects in a node-and-link representation as directed by the link objects by following links out of each node depending of the link objects' &#x201c;to node identifier&#x201d; such that an outline is output having node object information and link object information hierarchically interrelated.

System and method for converting node-and-link knowledge representations to outline format

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A visual metaphor is provided on a computer and/or network environment for tagging documents with various types of (education) commentary to an author's (student's) work and indications of (educational) goals that have been or are to be achieved. One or more of the comments and goals are based on predetermined standards. The goals or comments are optionally weighted. Summaries of these goals can be generated to assist evaluators (teachers and administrators) in evaluating both the work of the authors (students) and the success of evaluator in managing (teaching) the authors (students).

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Sherman Robert Alpert