MECUREO ontology and modelling tools. (1st September 2004)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Apted, Trent; Kay, Judy
• Is Part Of: International journal of continuing engineering education and lifelong learning. Volume 14:Number 3(2004)
• Page Start: 191
• Page End: 211
• Publication Date: 2004-09-01
• Subjects: ontologies -- student modelling -- ontological inference -- knowledge acquisition -- computer science dictionary -- computer science ontology -- teaching; Engineering -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 620.00715
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1560-4624

Abstract

This paper describes MECUREO, a system that automatically constructs an ontology from a dictionary. We describe its use in the context of a dictionary of computer science. MECUREO parses this to construct a graph representing a lightweight ontology of computer science. The paper describes MECUREO's approach to parsing the dictionary and the construction of the ontology graph. We also describe MECUREO's point query facility. This generates a small ontology for use in a particular teaching context, such as a single lesson. We report two evaluations of the effectiveness of the ontology construction, one based on a qualitative concept mapping experiment, and the other on a quantitative comparison of the computer science ontology with another similar ontology.