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Semantic technologies for eLearning - A case study in the philosophical domain: representing Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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What does it mean for a student to come to an understanding of a philosophical standpoint and can the explosion of resources now available on the web support this process, or is it inclined instead to create more confusion? We believe that a possible answer to the problem of finding a means through the morass of information on the web to the philosophical insights it conceals lies in the process of narrative pathway generation. That is, the active linking of resources into a learning path that contextualizes them with respect to one another. This result can be achieved only if the content of the resources is indexed, not just their status as a text document, an image or a video. To this aim, we propose a formal conceptualization of the domain of philosophy, an ontology that would allow the categorization of resources according to a series of pre-agreed content descriptors. Within an e-learning scenario, a teacher could use a tool comprising such an ontology to annotate at various levels of granularity available philosophical materials, and let the students explore this semantic space in an unsupervised manner, according to pre-defined narrative pathways.

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Michele Pasin is a researcher in Digital Humanities at King''s College, London. He holds a PhD in artificial intelligence from the Open University (UK) and a BA in philosophy from the Universita'' Ca'' Foscari (Venezia, Italy). His work focuses on the application of the latest computing technologies to the enhancement of humanities research.

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Authors Enric Motta, Enrico Motta, MICHEL PASIN, MICHELE PASIN, Zdenek Zdrahal
Publisher LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
 
Languages English, German
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2010
 
EAN 9783838376134
ISBN 978-3-8383-7613-4
No. of pages 288
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Internet

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