Build a search engine for the knowledge of the course about Introduction to Programming based on ontology Rela-model

Abstract

STEM education is the modern educational method. The knowledge of programming is very important for studying in STEM education, especially in information technology. In this paper, an intelligent search engine for the knowledge of the course about Introduction to Programming is constructed. The knowledge model is organized based on the improved ontology of Rela-model, which represents concepts of the course, relations between those concepts and some inference rules to query the knowledge of programming. Based on this ontology, the problems for querying the knowledge of the course are proposed based on their semantic. The search system has been tested in the real- world by students studying the course. The experimental results are positive for the effectiveness of the system.