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Page 1: USE OF ONTOLOGY-BASED STUDENT MODEL IN SEMANTIC- ORIENTED ACCESS TO THE KNOWLEDGE IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES Desislava Paneva Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

USE OF ONTOLOGY-BASED STUDENT MODEL IN USE OF ONTOLOGY-BASED STUDENT MODEL IN SEMANTIC-ORIENTED ACCESS TO THE SEMANTIC-ORIENTED ACCESS TO THE KNOWLEDGE IN DIGITAL LIBRARIESKNOWLEDGE IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES

USE OF ONTOLOGY-BASED STUDENT MODEL IN USE OF ONTOLOGY-BASED STUDENT MODEL IN SEMANTIC-ORIENTED ACCESS TO THE SEMANTIC-ORIENTED ACCESS TO THE KNOWLEDGE IN DIGITAL LIBRARIESKNOWLEDGE IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES

Desislava Paneva

Institute of Mathematics and InformaticsBulgarian Academy of Sciences

[email protected]

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Presentation overviewPresentation overview

• Basic concepts and characteristics of digital libraries

• Digital libraries and eLearning systems vis-à-vis

• Student modelling – main issues, standards, Semantic

web approach for model constructing, examples

• Main elements of the student model

• Student ontology

• Scenario for implementation of student ontology

• Conclusion and future work

• References

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Basic concepts and characteristics of digital libraries

Digital libraries (DL) are organised collections of digital content made available to the public, offering services and infrastructure to support preservation and presentation of visual and knowledge objects anytime and anywhere.

The main characteristics of digital libraries:

• Ability to share information

• New forms and formats for information presentation

• Easy information update

• Accessibility from anywhere, at any time

• Services available for searching, selecting, grouping and presenting digital

information, extracted from a number of locations

• Personalization and adaptation

• Contemporary methods and tools for digital information protection and

preservation

• Different types of computer equipment and software

• No limitations related to the size of content to be presented, etc.

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• Multi-layer and personalized search, context-based search, relevant feedback

• Resource and collection management

• Metadata management

• Indexing

• Semantic annotation of digital resources and collection

• Multi-object and multi-feature search

• Different media type search, etc.

The functionalities and advanced services of contemporary digital libraries:

Basic concepts and characteristics of digital libraries

Architectures:

• Hypermedia digital library

• Grid-based infrastructure

• Hyperdatabase infrastructure

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Digital libraries and eLearning systems vis-à-Digital libraries and eLearning systems vis-à-visvis• Knowledge-on-Demand• Just-in-time methods for supporting knowledge • Provision of more efficient and more flexible tools for transforming digital

content to suit the needs of end-users

• Sustaining of resources

• Resource description

• Heterogeneous resources in a coherent way

• Intellectual property rights

• Flexible architectures that provide interoperability

• Innovative services• Effective user modelling tools, etc.

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Student modellingStudent modellingStudent modelling can be defined as the process of acquiring knowledge about the

student in order to provide services, adaptive content and personalized instructional

flow/s according to specific student’s requirements.

Main questions:

• Student interests: What is the student interested in? What needs to be done or

accomplished?

• Student preferences: How is something done or accomplished?

• Student objectives and intents: What the student actually wants to achieve?

• Student motivation: What is the force that drives the student to be engaged in

learning activities?

• Student experience: What is the student’s previous experience that may have an

impact on learning achievement?

• Student activities: What the student does in the learning environment?

• ….

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Student modelling standardsStudent modelling standards

Incorporation between IEEE LTSC’s Personal and Private Information (PAPI)

Standard and the IMS Learner Information Package (LIP)

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Student modelling – Semantic web approachStudent modelling – Semantic web approach

Main tools for constructing a student model ontology are:

• Earliest ideas of using ontologies for learner modelling (Chen&Mizoguchi, 1999).

• Use of ontologies for reusable and “scrutable” student models (Kay, 1999)

• Ontology modelling languages - OIL, DAML+OIL, RDF/RDFS, OWL, etc.

• Ontology development tools - Apollo, LinkFactory®, OILEd, OntoEditFree,

Ontolingua server, OntoSaurus, OpenKnoME, Protégé-2000, SymOntoX,

WebODE, WebOnto, OntoBuilder, etc.

• Ontology merge and integration tools – Chimaera, FCA-Merge (a method for

bottom-up merging of ontologies), PROMPT, ODEMerge, etc.

• Ontology-based annotation tools – AeroDAML, COHSE, MnM, OngtoAnnotate,

OntoMat-Annotizer, SHOE Knowledge Annotator, etc.

• Ontology storing and querying tools - ICS-FORTH RDFSuite, Sesame, Inkling,

rdfDB, RDFStore, Extensible Open RDF (EOR), Jena, TRIPLE, KAON Tool Suite,

Cerebra®, Ontopia Knowledge Suite, Empolis K42, etc.

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Student modelling - examplesStudent modelling - examples

The Self e-Learning Networks Project (SeLeNe) is a one-year Accompanying Measure funded by EU

FP5, running from 1st November 2002 to 31st October 2003, extended until 31st January 2004

SeLeNe learner profile

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Student modelling - examplesStudent modelling - examples

Project ELENA – Creating a Smart Space for Learning (01/09/2002 – 29/02/2005)

An excerpt of ELENA conceptual model for the learner profile with main concepts

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Main elements of the student modelMain elements of the student model

General student information

StudentPersonalData - StudentName, StudentSurname, StudentId, StudentAge,

StudentPostalAddress, StudentEmail, StudentTelephone

StudentPreference – StudentObjectGroupingPreference,

StudentObjectObservationStyle, StudentMultipleIntelligence,

StudentPhysicalLimitation, StudentLanguagePreference

StudentBackground - StudentLastEducation, StudentExperience

StudentMotivationState - StudentInterest, StudentKnowledgeLevel

StudentLearningGoal.

Information about the student’s behaviour

StudentObjectObservationTime

StudentChosenObject

StudentChosenCollection

StudentObjectObservationPath

StudentCompetenceLevel.

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Student ontologyStudent ontology

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Student ontologyStudent ontology

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Student ontologyStudent ontology

Object properties:

• Inverse properties: hasA and isAOf, where A is the name of some class or sub-class

Examples: hasStudentBackground and isStudentBackgroundOf hasStudentExperience and isStudentExperienceOf

hasStudentKnowledgeLevel and isStudentKnowledgeLevelOf, etc.

• Other properties: PreferringObjectGrouping, FollowingObjectObservationPath,

Wishing, etc.

• Restriction: Existential quantifier () and the Universal quantifier ()

Examples: “ Wishing StudentObjectObservationStyle”

quantifier property filler

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Student ontologyStudent ontologyThe figure depicts the

StudentBackground

class of the described

student ontology. The

student background is

based on the

StudentLastEducation

and StudentExperience.

The last education is

certified by any diploma

or certificate with a

written qualification

type. This document is

issued by a certain

organization and usually

has a validation period.

The student experience

implies type, description

and duration.

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Scenario for implementation of student Scenario for implementation of student ontologyontology

• Personalized search

Student motivation state - student knowledge level (beginner, advanced, high)

and student interest

Student learning goal

Student background

Student behaviour in the digital library – chosen objects/collections, object

observation path, etc.

Student object observation style

Language preference

Student physical limitations, etc.

• Context-based search

Student preferences – object grouping preference, etc.

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Conclusion and future work

• Modelling and creation of domain ontology, describing the knowledge for the

digital objects of the digital library.

• Merging this ontology with the presented student ontology

• Development of semantic-based DL services such as semantic annotation of

digital objects, indexing, metadata management, etc.

• Development and implementation of semantic search, personalized search,

context-based search, multi-object search, multi-feature search, etc. using the

merged ontology and following the implementation scenario.

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ReferencesReferences• LTSC Learner Model Working Group of the IEEE (2000) IEEE p1484.2/d7, 2000-11-28 Draft Standard for

Learning Technology - Public and Private Information for Learners, Technical report Available Online: http://www.edutool.com/papi/papi_learner_07_main.pdf

• Smythe, C., F. Tansey, R. Robson (2001) IMS Learner Information Package Information Model Specification, Technical report Available Online: http://www.imsglobal.org/profiles/lipinfo01.html

• Chen, W., R. Mizoguchi (1999) Communication Content Ontology for Learner Model Agent in Multi-Agent Architecture, In Proceedings of AIED99 Workshop on Ontologies for Intelligent Educational Systems

• Kay, J. (1999) Ontologies for reusable and scrutable student model, In Proceedings of AIED99 Workshop on Ontologies for Intelligent Educational Systems

• Heckmann, D., A. Krueger (2003) A User Modeling Markup Language (UserML) for Ubiquitous Computing, In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on User Modeling, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 393-397

• OWL Web Ontology Language Overview. W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004, Available Online: http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/

• Self, J. (1990) Bypassing the intractable problem of student modelling. In C. Frasson & G. Gauthier (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems: At the Crossroads of Artificial Intelligence and Education. New Jersey: AblexChen

• Lane, C. (1998) Gardner’s multiple IntelligenceAvailable online: http://www.tecweb.org/styles/stylesframe.html

• Lane, C. (2000) Learning styles and multiple intelligences in distributed learning/IMS projects. San Clemente, CA, The Education Coalition (TEC)

• Sison, R., M. Shimura (1998) Student Modelling and Machine Learning. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education volum 9, pp. 128-158