Combined usage of ontologies and folksonomies in E-learning environments

Scott Bateman, Dragan Gašević, Jelena Jovananović, Marek Hatala, Carlo Torniai

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Abstract

This paper describes a working prototype which illustrates how socially constructed knowledge (specifically through collaborative tagging) can support domain experts to enrich ontological domain representations. E-learning has a particular requirement for a simple yet reliable ontology enrichment approach since domain experts usually lack knowledge engineering skills and domain representations are undergoing constant refinement. Our prototype serves to demonstrate our belief that the user interface of semantic-rich systems must be intuitive and necessarily simplistic, and provide support to the user at each step of the enrichment process. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication5th International Workshop on Semantic Web User Interaction, SWUI 2008
Subtitle of host publicationCollocated with the Computer Human Interaction Conference, CHI 2008; Florence; Italy; 5 April 2008 through 5 April 2008
PublisherRheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Number of pages4
Volume543
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Workshop on Semantic Web User Interaction, SWUI 2008, Collocated with the Computer Human Interaction Conference, CHI 2008 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 5 Apr 20085 Apr 2008

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
PublisherRheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen * Lehrstuhl Informatik V
ISSN (Print)1613-0073

Conference

Conference5th International Workshop on Semantic Web User Interaction, SWUI 2008, Collocated with the Computer Human Interaction Conference, CHI 2008
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period5/04/085/04/08

Keywords

  • E-learning
  • Folksonomies
  • Ontologies
  • Semantic Web
  • Web 2.0

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