Toward a fuzzy domain ontology extraction method for adaptive e-learning

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 800-813

  Lau, Raymond Y K ^a   Song, Dawei ^b   Li, Yuefeng ^c   Cheung, Terence C H ^a   Hao, Jin Xing ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concept map; Domain ontology; E Learning; Fuzzy sets; Knowledge management applications; Linguistic processing; Modeling structured; Ontology extraction; Text mining; Textual and multimedia data

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT MAP; DOMAIN ONTOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS; LINGUISTIC PROCESSING; MODELING STRUCTURED; ONTOLOGY EXTRACTION; TEXT MINING; TEXTUAL AND MULTIMEDIA DATA;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; FUZZY SETS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; MINING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 66149180701     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2008.137     Document Type: Article

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