2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
Leveraging Folksonomies for Ontology Evolution in E-learning Environments
August 04-August 07
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3279-0
One of the main obstacles for wider adoption of semantic rich e-learning systems is the difficulty in creating and maintaining domain ontologies describing courses. Annotations, such as those resulting from collaborative tagging, provide a new source of information which can be used to ease the process of author-ing and updating domain ontologies. This paper presents an extension to the LOCO-Analyst tool, which leverages student folksonomies to support instructors when revising and updating course domain ontologies. The support is based on a computation of relatedness between ontology concepts and students tags which takes into account the "context" defined by the domain ontology. The computed scores are visualized in a tag cloud along with tag popularity scores, to allow instructors to easily comprehend the emergent feedback of their students. This approach allows for a simple and intuitive method for instructors to associate tags with concepts in their domain ontology.
Index Terms:
Folksonomies, Ontologies, E-learning
Citation:
Carlo Torniai, Jelena Jovanovic, Scott Bateman, Dragan Ga?evic, Marek Hatala, "Leveraging Folksonomies for Ontology Evolution in E-learning Environments," icsc, pp.206-213, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2008