A reference ontology for profiling scholar's background knowledge in recommender systems

• Main Authors: Amini, Bahram, Ibrahim, Roliana, Othman, Mohd. Shahizan, Nematbakhsh, Mohammadali
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Limited 2015
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/55876/1/BahramAmini2015_AReferenceOntologyforProfilingScholar%27sBackground.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/55876/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.08.031
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The profiling of background knowledge is essential in scholar's recommender systems. Existing ontology-based profiling approaches employ a pre-built reference ontology as a backbone structure for representing the scholar's preferences. However, such singular reference ontologies lack suffi...