Building Domain Ontologies from Text for Educational Purposes

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-62

  Zouaq, Amal ^a   Nkambou, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Applications and expert knowledge intensive systems (education); intelligent Web services and Semantic Web knowledge acquisition; knowledge reuse

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT STRUCTURES; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATIONS; CONCEPT MAPS; DOMAIN CONCEPTS; DOMAIN MODELS; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; ELEARNING RESOURCES; FORMAL ONTOLOGIES; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT WEB SERVICES AND SEMANTIC WEB KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE REUSE; LEARNING OBJECTS; ONTOLOGY LEARNINGS; SEMI-AUTOMATIC;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; EDUCATION; INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPS; MODEL STRUCTURES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 66149174074     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2008.12     Document Type: Article

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