“Information overload” problem is even more emphasized with the growing amount of text data in electronic form and the availability of the information on the constantly growing World Wide Web (Mladenic et. al., 2003). When a user enters a keyword, such as “pencil” into a search engine, the result returned is often a long list of web pages, many of which are irrelevant, moved, or abandoned (Smit...

The purpose of this report is to describe the rationale and subsequent transition of a pharmacology course for dental students from a traditional face-to-face lecture format to online delivery using a course management system (CMS). A dental school faculty member with dental and pharmacology degrees and a Ph.D. was asked to serve as course director and to develop and implement a nontraditional ...

The paper describes a combined approach to maintaining an E-Learning ontology in dynamic and changing educational environment. The developed NLP algorithm based on morpho-syntactic patterns is applied for terminology extraction from course tasks that allows to interlink extracted terms with the instances of the system’s ontology whenever some educational materials are changed. These links are u...

It is common that each course at a university has its own web site for managing course materials and communicating with students. However, the people, mainly instructors, who develop the course web site, tend to provide different interfaces and functions depending on their needs and web development skill. The Platform for Learning and Teaching Online (PLATO) is an online course management syste...