NLP AND ONTOLOGY MATCHING - A Successful Combination for Trialogical Learning

Angela Locoro, Viviana Mascardi, Anna Marina Scapolla

2010

Abstract

Trialogical Learning refers to those forms of learning where learners are collaboratively developing, transforming, or creating shared objects of activity in a systematic fashion. In order to be really productive, systems supporting Trialogical Learning must rely on intelligent services to let knowledge co-evolve with social practices, in an automatic or semi-automatic way, according to the users' emerging needs and practical innovations. These requirements raise problems related to knowledge evolution, content retrieval and classification, dynamic suggestion of relationships among knowledge objects. In this paper, we propose to exploit Natural Language Processing and Ontology Matching techniques for facing the problems above. The Knowledge Practice Environment of the KP-Lab project has been used as a test bed for demonstrating the feasibility of our approach.

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Locoro A., Mascardi V. and Marina Scapolla A. (2010). NLP AND ONTOLOGY MATCHING - A Successful Combination for Trialogical Learning . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-674-021-4, pages 253-258. DOI: 10.5220/0002720302530258


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@conference{icaart10,
author={Angela Locoro and Viviana Mascardi and Anna Marina Scapolla},
title={NLP AND ONTOLOGY MATCHING - A Successful Combination for Trialogical Learning},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2010},
pages={253-258},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002720302530258},
isbn={978-989-674-021-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - NLP AND ONTOLOGY MATCHING - A Successful Combination for Trialogical Learning
SN - 978-989-674-021-4
AU - Locoro A.
AU - Mascardi V.
AU - Marina Scapolla A.
PY - 2010
SP - 253
EP - 258
DO - 10.5220/0002720302530258