We propose multiple techniques for automatic document order generation for (1) curriculum development and for (2) creation of optimal reading order for use in learning, training, and other content-sequencing applications. Such techniques could potentially be used to improve comprehension, identify areas that need expounding, generate curricula, and improve search engine results. We advance two main techniques: The first uses document similarities through various methods. The second uses entropy against the backdrop of topics generated through Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). In addition, we try the same methods on the summarized documents and compare them against the results obtained using the complete documents. Our results showed that while the document orders for our control document sets (biographies, novels, and Wikipedia articles) could not be predicted using our methods, our test documents (textbooks, courses, journal papers, dissertations) provided more reliability. We also demonstrated that summarized documents were good stand-ins for the complete documents for the purposes of ordering.

我们提出了多种技术，用于自动文档排序生成，用于课程开发和在学习、培训和其他内容排序应用中创建最佳阅读顺序。我们通过使用不同方法的文档相似度和潜在狄利克雷分配（LDA）生成的主题熵，推进了两个主要技术。我们的结果表明，通过我们的方法无法预测我们的控制文档集（传记、小说和维基百科文章）的文档顺序，但我们的测试文档（教科书、课程、期刊论文、学位论文）提供了更可靠的排列。我们还证明了摘要文档可以很好地代替完整文档进行排序。

用于课程开发与理解的文档排序功能分析