Ontologies for authoring of intelligent educational systems

The goal of this paper is to illustrate the beneficial role of ontologies in achieving efficient authoring support for Intelligent Educational Systems (IES). We present our ideas within an ontology-driven framework EASE offering power with respect to the functionality, generic approach for its support of instructional strategies and user-friendliness in its interaction with the author. A central function in it has an authoring task ontology that at a metalevel defines and controls the configuration and tuning of an authoring tool for a specific authoring process. In this way we achieve more control over the evolution of the intelligence in IES and reach a computational formalization of IES engineering.

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