Denaux, R, Dimitrova, V, Lau, LMS et al. (3 more authors) (2014) Employing linked data and dialogue for modelling cultural awareness of a user. In: IUI '14 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 24-27 Feb 2014, Haifa, Israel. ACM , 241 - 246. ISBN 978-1-4503-2184-6
Abstract
Intercultural competence is an essential 21st Century skill. A key issue for developers of cross-cultural training simulators is the need to provide relevant learning experience adapted to the learner’s abilities. This paper presents a dialogic approach for a quick assessment of the depth of a learner's current intercultural awareness as part of the EU ImREAL project. To support the dialogue, Linked Data is seen as a rich knowledge base for a diverse range of resources on cultural aspects. This paper investigates how semantic technologies could be used to: (a) extract a pool of concrete culturally-relevant facts from DBpedia that can be linked to various cultural groups and to the learner, (b) model a learner's knowledge on a selected set of cultural themes and (c) provide a novel, adaptive and user-friendly, user modelling dialogue for cultural awareness. The usability and usefulness of the approach is evaluated by CrowdFlower and Expert Inspection.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Keywords: | User modelling; dialogue system; linked data; cultural awareness; learning simulator |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) > Institute for Computational and Systems Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2014 11:59 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:28 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2557500.2557529 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | ACM |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/2557500.2557529 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:80234 |