Crosslingual search in an eLearning environment

Current eLearning systems offer only full-text or keyword-based search facilities. In the EU-Project LT4eL we are aiming to enhance the search facility within an eLearning platform through ontology support.

In this talk we will outline the steps we took in order to implement an ontology search facility and also describe planned extensions for crosslingual search.

We will explain the methodology for ontology creation, the semantic annotation of learning objects with concepts from the ontology, and show how lexical items of various languages have been mapped onto the concepts of the ontology. We will present also a first prototype of crosslingual ontological search

-- CristinaVertan -- 20 Jun 2007