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TOTh 2025 Conference Contribution: The Landscape of Educational Ontologies in the AI Era: A Literature Review
The TOTh (Terminology & Ontology: Theories and applications) Conference is a premier international forum dedicated to bridging the disciplines of terminology and ontology. It brings together researchers, practitioners, and language professionals to explore how knowledge is organized, represented, and shared across various domains. By focusing on both the theoretical foundations of concept representation and the practical applications of semantic technologies, TOTh fosters the interdisciplinary dialogue necessary to advance modern knowledge engineering.
Understanding the relationship between language (terminology) and formal knowledge representation (ontology) is increasingly critical in our digital age. The TOTh community plays a vital role in establishing standards, methodologies, and innovative approaches to ensure that information systems can process complex human knowledge accurately and efficiently.
This personal repository hosts the data, supplementary annexes, and the official conference contribution submitted to the TOTh 2025 Conference (https://toth.condillac.org).
This study presents a systematic literature review that maps the rapidly evolving landscape of educational ontologies in the Artificial Intelligence era. We systematically analyzed quantitative findings from 222 peer-reviewed papers published between 2020 and 2025. This repository provides a transparent look at the data underlying our synthesis of how educational ontologies are being applied, the methodologies used to construct them, the specific semantic models currently in use, and the primary trends directing future research.
By making these resources publicly available, provide the community with concrete data on where the field of educational ontologies is focusing and how semantic technology transforming digital learning environments.
This repository is structured to guide readers through both our findings and our foundational data. It contains the following core components:
- Published Contribution Status: To be added upon official publication. This will be the official, peer-reviewed conference paper presented at TOTh 2025. It contains our complete synthesis of the 222 reviewed papers, translating quantitative distributions into a cohesive analysis of applications, methodologies, existing models, and future trends in educational ontologies.
- Annex 1: Implemented Educational Ontologies (Table 2) A detailed reference document cataloging the specific educational ontologies developed and implemented within the reviewed literature. To facilitate easy navigation, these ontologies are grouped by their primary application area (e.g., curriculum modeling, learning domain description, e-learning services). This annex serves as a practical index for researchers seeking existing semantic models to reuse or adapt.
- Annex 2: List of Reviewed Studies The complete, comprehensive inventory of the 222 peer-reviewed papers selected and analyzed for this systematic review. This dataset provides the foundational bibliography of our research and stands as a valuable resource for anyone conducting secondary research or seeking to explore specific case studies in educational knowledge representation.