Ontology based system to guide internship assignment process

TL;DR

This paper presents an ontology-based system to improve internship assignment by modeling student profiles and internship postings, enabling better matching between student capabilities and company requirements.

Contribution

It introduces a novel ontological model for educational profiles and internship postings, enhancing decision-making and semantic matching in internship assignments.

Findings

Improved matching accuracy between students and internships.

Enhanced knowledge articulation through ontological modeling.

Better handling of unstructured internship postings.

Abstract

Internship assignment is a complicated process for universities since it is necessary to take into account a multiplicity of variables to establish a compromise between companies' requirements and student competencies acquired during the university training. These variables build up a complex relations map that requires the formulation of an exhaustive and rigorous conceptual scheme. In this research a domain ontological model is presented as support to the student's decision making for opportunities of University studies level of the University Lumiere Lyon 2 (ULL) education system. The ontology is designed and created using methodological approach offering the possibility of improving the progressive creation, capture and knowledge articulation. In this paper, we draw a balance taking the demands of the companies across the capabilities of the students. This will be done through the establishment of an ontological model of an educational learners' profile and the internship postings which are written in a free text and using uncontrolled vocabulary. Furthermore, we outline the process of semantic matching which improves the quality of query results.