Automatic Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Guideline Verification For Consistently Formatted Manuscripts
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Automatic Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Guideline Verification For Consistently Formatted Manuscripts
Higher Education Institutions worldwide enforce guidelines and academic approaches to ensure scholarly integrity and adherence to academic standards(Razı et al., 2019).The University of Zambia, is not an exception. Just like most HEIs it offers training to postgraduate students and one of the key aspects of postgraduate training is producing an Electronic Thesis and Dissertation manuscript. The Directorate of Research and Graduate Studies (DRGS) at the University of Zambia provides guidelines which stipulate how ETD’s should be formatted. However, the process of checking for conformance is a manual and tedious procedure, resulting in submission of inconsistently formatted manuscripts in the Institutional Repository (IR). To address this challenge our project seeks to implement a tool that will automate the process of checking ETD’s compliance against established postgraduate guidelines. The tool will leverage data mining techniques to perform these tasks. More specifically, Document Layout Analysis (DLA) (Binmakhashen & Mahmoud, 2019) will be the core approach used in the implementation. The tool will flag off portions of ETD manuscripts that do not conform to established guidelines. Hence, this will help resolve the inconsistencies in the format of submitted manuscripts.
2024