A reference ontology for profiling scholar’s background knowledge in recommender systems

作者：

Highlights：

• We develop a reference ontology which is adapted to the structure of scholars’ knowledge.

• The reference ontology is developed by merging six Web taxonomies.

• We employ DBpedia to transform and map scholar’s knowledge to the reference ontology.

• We improve coverage, specificity, and richness of the domain’s reference ontology.

摘要

•We develop a reference ontology which is adapted to the structure of scholars’ knowledge.•The reference ontology is developed by merging six Web taxonomies.•We employ DBpedia to transform and map scholar’s knowledge to the reference ontology.•We improve coverage, specificity, and richness of the domain’s reference ontology.

论文关键词：Profiling,Recommender system,Ontology,DBpedia,Scholars

论文评审过程：Available online 1 September 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.08.031