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SMARTNotes: Semantic annotation system for a collaborative learning


Driss Bouzidi, Rachid Elouahabi and Noreddine Abghour

Creating situations that promote collaboration between learners and/or their tutor is generally based on traditional communication tools. These are an important means to exchange ideas among learners, validate and consolidate their learning. However, we note that the large volume of messages exchanged between students and the tutor generates unwanted noise that can cause problems of disorientation for the majority of learners and cognitive overload. Through a solution based on the use of annotations as a support for collaboration, we sought, first, to stimulate interaction and facilitate collaborative activities between learners and their tutor in an activity of understanding of a distance-learning course. Secondly, we have proposed to create connections, through automatic annotations, linking parts of the course to the most relevant messages posted in a discussion forum. The degree of relevance of these messages is based on a customized classification according to the profile of the learner and the objective of the course, as well as the integration of a semantic search done by applying a thesaurus to the LSA method.

Keywords: Annotation systems, collaborative learning, discussion forums, messages classification, Semantic Web, Latent Semantic Analysis, LSA

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Driss Bouzidi
Driss BOUZIDI is an Assistance Professor in Computer Science at Hassan II Ain Chock University, Faculty of Sciences Casablanca, Morocco. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Mohammed V University in 2004 on \"Collaboration in hypermedia courses of e-learning system SMART-Learning\". Dr. Bouzidi\'s research interests are in Distributed multimedia Applications, Collaboration systems, and e-learning. He was vice-chair of the international conference NGNS\'09 (Next Generation Network and Services) and the treasurer of the two research associations e-NGN and APRIMT.

Rachid Elouahabi
Rachid ELOUAHABI received his doctorate degree in Computer Science from Mohammadia School of Engineering Morocco in 2005. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Moulay Ismail, Meknès. His research focused on the area of adaptive learning systems, course sequencing and learning technologies. He works on the project Graduate\'s Insertion and Assessment as tools for Moroccan Higher Education Governance and Management in partnership with the European Union.

Noreddine Abghour
Noreddine ABGHOUR is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences Ain Chok, Casablanca, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He is also a PhD in Computer Science, area of distributed applications, from The Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse. In addition to teaching, his research interests are in the field of security and collaborative systems.


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