Abstract:
Recent research in learning technologies has demonstrated many promising contributions from the use of ontologies and semantic web technologies for the development of adv...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Recent research in learning technologies has demonstrated many promising contributions from the use of ontologies and semantic web technologies for the development of advanced learning environments. In spite of those benefits, ontology development and maintenance remain the key research challenges to be solved before ontology-enhanced learning environments are widely used. In this paper, we present an approach to ontology maintenance based on the use of collaborative tags contributed by learners while using learning environments. Our contribution is twofold: 1) a visualization and user interaction interface supporting the tasks of enriching ontologies with selected collaborative tags; and 2) ontology-enhanced metrics that are used for measuring semantic relatedness between collaborative tags and ontology concepts and for recommending tags which are relevant to a given ontological concept. We developed a software architecture as a proof of concept and a tool for the evaluation of our proposal. This tool is used to conduct the evaluation of the usability and effectiveness of the proposed method.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies ( Volume: 4, Issue: 4, Oct.-Dec. 2011)
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2011.21
Athabasca University, Athabasca
Dragan Gašević received the Dipl.Ing, MSc, and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Belgrade. He is a Canada Research Chair in semantic technologies and an associate professor at Athabasca University. He is also an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in semantic technologies, software language engineering, technology-enhanced learning, learning analytics, and services...Show More
Dragan Gašević received the Dipl.Ing, MSc, and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Belgrade. He is a Canada Research Chair in semantic technologies and an associate professor at Athabasca University. He is also an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in semantic technologies, software language engineering, technology-enhanced learning, learning analytics, and services...View more
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada
Amal Zouaq is an assistant professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. Her research interests include natural language processing, semantic web, ontology engineering, knowledge extraction, and technology-enhanced learning. She serves as a member of the program committee of various conferences in technology-enhanced learning and semantic web and she is part of the editorial review board of the Interdisciplinary Jour...Show More
Amal Zouaq is an assistant professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. Her research interests include natural language processing, semantic web, ontology engineering, knowledge extraction, and technology-enhanced learning. She serves as a member of the program committee of various conferences in technology-enhanced learning and semantic web and she is part of the editorial review board of the Interdisciplinary Jour...View more
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Carlo Torniai is currently an assistant professor at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Throughout his work experience, he has developed and used semantic web technologies in several domains. In particular, his research interests include best practices of ontology development for multimedia and biomedical resource annotations and exploring interactions between social and semantic web in learning environme...Show More
Carlo Torniai is currently an assistant professor at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Throughout his work experience, he has developed and used semantic web technologies in several domains. In particular, his research interests include best practices of ontology development for multimedia and biomedical resource annotations and exploring interactions between social and semantic web in learning environme...View more
University of Belgrade, Belgrade
Jelena Jovanović received the BS, MSc, and PhD degrees in informatics and software engineering from the University of Belgrade in 2003, 2005, and 2007, respectively. She is an assistant professor of computer science with the Department of Software Engineering, FOS - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her research interests are in the areas of semantic technologies, web technologies, technol...Show More
Jelena Jovanović received the BS, MSc, and PhD degrees in informatics and software engineering from the University of Belgrade in 2003, 2005, and 2007, respectively. She is an assistant professor of computer science with the Department of Software Engineering, FOS - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her research interests are in the areas of semantic technologies, web technologies, technol...View more
School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC, Canada
Marek Hatala received the PhD degree in cybernetics and artificial intelligence from the Technical University of Kosice. He is an associate professor and a graduate chair in the School Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge management, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, user modeling, interoperability, security and trust policies, e-learn...Show More
Marek Hatala received the PhD degree in cybernetics and artificial intelligence from the Technical University of Kosice. He is an associate professor and a graduate chair in the School Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge management, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, user modeling, interoperability, security and trust policies, e-learn...View more
Contents Athabasca University, Athabasca
Dragan Gašević received the Dipl.Ing, MSc, and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Belgrade. He is a Canada Research Chair in semantic technologies and an associate professor at Athabasca University. He is also an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in semantic technologies, software language engineering, technology-enhanced learning, learning analytics, and services computing. He is a coauthor of numerous publications, frequent keynote speaker, and event organizer in the areas of his research interests. He was a cofounder of the International Conferences on Software Language Engineering (SLE) and Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK). More information can be found at http://dgasevic.athabascau.ca.
Dragan Gašević received the Dipl.Ing, MSc, and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Belgrade. He is a Canada Research Chair in semantic technologies and an associate professor at Athabasca University. He is also an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in semantic technologies, software language engineering, technology-enhanced learning, learning analytics, and services computing. He is a coauthor of numerous publications, frequent keynote speaker, and event organizer in the areas of his research interests. He was a cofounder of the International Conferences on Software Language Engineering (SLE) and Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK). More information can be found at http://dgasevic.athabascau.ca.View more
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada
Amal Zouaq is an assistant professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. Her research interests include natural language processing, semantic web, ontology engineering, knowledge extraction, and technology-enhanced learning. She serves as a member of the program committee of various conferences in technology-enhanced learning and semantic web and she is part of the editorial review board of the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence. She also serves as a reviewer for many conferences and journals in knowledge and data engineering, natural language processing, e-learning, and the semantic web. More information can be found at http://azouaq.athabascau.ca.
Amal Zouaq is an assistant professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. Her research interests include natural language processing, semantic web, ontology engineering, knowledge extraction, and technology-enhanced learning. She serves as a member of the program committee of various conferences in technology-enhanced learning and semantic web and she is part of the editorial review board of the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence. She also serves as a reviewer for many conferences and journals in knowledge and data engineering, natural language processing, e-learning, and the semantic web. More information can be found at http://azouaq.athabascau.ca.View more
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Carlo Torniai is currently an assistant professor at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Throughout his work experience, he has developed and used semantic web technologies in several domains. In particular, his research interests include best practices of ontology development for multimedia and biomedical resource annotations and exploring interactions between social and semantic web in learning environments.
Carlo Torniai is currently an assistant professor at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Throughout his work experience, he has developed and used semantic web technologies in several domains. In particular, his research interests include best practices of ontology development for multimedia and biomedical resource annotations and exploring interactions between social and semantic web in learning environments.View more
University of Belgrade, Belgrade
Jelena Jovanović received the BS, MSc, and PhD degrees in informatics and software engineering from the University of Belgrade in 2003, 2005, and 2007, respectively. She is an assistant professor of computer science with the Department of Software Engineering, FOS - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her research interests are in the areas of semantic technologies, web technologies, technology-enhanced learning, and knowledge management. She is a member of the GOOD OLD AI research network. More information can be found at http://jelenajovanovic.net.
Jelena Jovanović received the BS, MSc, and PhD degrees in informatics and software engineering from the University of Belgrade in 2003, 2005, and 2007, respectively. She is an assistant professor of computer science with the Department of Software Engineering, FOS - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her research interests are in the areas of semantic technologies, web technologies, technology-enhanced learning, and knowledge management. She is a member of the GOOD OLD AI research network. More information can be found at http://jelenajovanovic.net.View more
School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC, Canada
Marek Hatala received the PhD degree in cybernetics and artificial intelligence from the Technical University of Kosice. He is an associate professor and a graduate chair in the School Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge management, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, user modeling, interoperability, security and trust policies, e-learning, and collaborative systems. More information can be found at http://www.sfu.ca/~mhatala.
Marek Hatala received the PhD degree in cybernetics and artificial intelligence from the Technical University of Kosice. He is an associate professor and a graduate chair in the School Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge management, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, user modeling, interoperability, security and trust policies, e-learning, and collaborative systems. More information can be found at http://www.sfu.ca/~mhatala.View more