Employing linked data and dialogue for modelling cultural awareness of a user
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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.Version
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Denaux R, Dimitrova V, Lau L et al (2014) Employing linked data and dialogue for modelling cultural awareness of a user. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). 24-27 Feb 2014, Haifa, Israel: 241-246.Link to Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1145/2557500.2557529Type
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https://doi.org/10.1145/2557500.2557529