Using hybrid semantic information filtering approach in communities of practice of E-learning

  • Authors:
  • Lamia Berkani;Azeddine Chikh;Omar Nouali

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, USTHB University, Algeria and Higher School of Computer Science (ESI), Algeria;Dept. of Information systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;Dept. of Research Computing, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Web Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The paper discusses the application of the Information Filtering (IF) approach in Communities of Practice of E-learning (CoPEs). We identify the main characteristics of CoPEs and show how the integration of the IF techniques can be useful in this context as a technology support for members of CoPEs. A personalized recommendation approach is proposed for CoPEs based on the hybrid semantic IF, integrating the content-based filtering, the collaborative filtering and the ontology-based filtering approaches. Three strategies of recommendation have been proposed: (1) a semantic recommendation by specialty; (2) a semantic content-based recommendation by domains of interests; and (3) a semantic collaborative recommendation by domains of interests. We have developed a prototype of a recommendation system called ReCoPESyst, based on the recommendation approach. In order to evaluate our system, we considered a community of teachers from a higher education context. A preliminary tests and experimentation of ReCoPESyst conducted within this community show its advantage and benefit for members.