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C-FOAM (Controlled Fully Automated Ontology-based Matching Strategy) is one of the seven matching strategies of the Ontology-based Data Matching Framework (ODMF). As a composition of the matching algorithms at the levels of string, lexical and graph, C-FOAM interprets and compares the user input against the ontology graph, and produces a matching score. Based on this score, C-FOAM (1) provides the similarity score between the user knowledge and the knowledge stored in the knowledge base, which can be used to evaluate a learner; and (2) retrieves and recommends similar patterns (learning materials) from the knowledge base to the learner. This paper presents a generic evaluation methodology and discusses the evaluation results while using C-FOAM in a Web-based personalized, collaborative and intelligent learning tool in the medical domain.
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Ciuciu, I., Tang Demey, Y. (2012). An Evaluation Methodology for C-FOAM Applied to Web-Based Learning. In: Popescu, E., Li, Q., Klamma, R., Leung, H., Specht, M. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2012. ICWL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7558. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33642-3_15
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