International Journal of Computer Science Issues

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In e-Learning systems, tutor plays a very important role to support learners, and guarantee a learning of quality. A successful collaboration between learners and their tutor requires the use of communication tools. Thanks to their flexibility in terms of time, the asynchronous tools as discussion forum are the most used. However this type of tools generates a great mass of messages making tutoring an operation complex to manage, hence the need of a classification tool of messages. We proposed in a first step a semantics classification tool, which is based on the LSA and thesaurus. The possibility that ontology provides to overcome the limitations of the thesaurus encouraged us to use it to control our vocabulary. By the way of our proposed selection algorithm, the OWL ontology is queried to generate new terms which are used to build the LSA matrix. The integration of formal OWL ontology provides a highly relevant semantic classification of messages, and the reuse by other applications of ontological knowledge base is also guaranteed. The interoperability and the knowledge exchange between systems are also ensured by ontology integrated. In order to ensure its reuse and interoperability with systems which requesting for its service of classification, the implementation of our semantic classifier tool basing on the SOA is adopted and it will be explained and tested in this work.