Abstract
The primary data source for universities and courses for students is increasingly becoming the web, and with a vast amount of information about thousands of courses on different websites, it is quite a task to find one that matches a student’s needs. That is why we are proposing the “Course Recom-mendation System”, a system that suggests the course best suited for prospective students. As there has been a huge increase in course content on the Internet, finding the course you really need has become time-consuming, so we are pro-posing to use an ontology-based approach to semantic content recommendation. The aim is to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of providing students with suitable recommendations. The recommender takes into consideration knowledge about the user (the student’s profile) and course content, as well as knowledge about the domain that is being learned. Ontology is used to both models and represent such forms of knowledge. There are four steps to this: ex-tracting information from multiple sources, applying ontologies by using Protégé tools, semantic relevance calculation and refining the recommendation. A per-sonalised, complete and augmented course is then suggested for the student, based on these steps.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Computational Science and its Applications - ICCSA 2017 |
Subtitle of host publication | 17th International Conference, Trieste, Italy, July 3-6, 2017, Proceedings, Part I |
Editors | Osvaldo Gervasi, Beniamino Murgante, Sanjay Misra, Giuseppe Borruso, Carmelo M. Torre, Ana Maria A. C. Rocha, David Taniar, Bernady O. Apduhan, Elena Stankova, Alfredo Cuzzocrea |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 426-438 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3319623924 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3319623917 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2017 |
Event | The 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: ICCSA 2017 - Trieste, Italy Duration: 3 Jul 2017 → 6 Jul 2017 http://www.iccsa.org/front-page |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Publisher | Springer |
Volume | 10404 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
Conference
Conference | The 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications |
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Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Trieste |
Period | 3/07/17 → 6/07/17 |
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Keywords
- recommendation systems
- semantic web
- ontology
- course selection
- semantic similarity