Mining user competency from semantic trace

In order to achieve individual or collective goals, users in informational environments collaborate to integrate intellectual resources and knowledge. Thanks to informational environments, users can better organize, realize and record collaboration. Every activity produces a set of traces. Such traces can be recorded and classified, based on a model of traces. With the help of a model of competency, these traces also contribute to evaluate the competency of users on certain subjects. In this article, we propose a semantic model of traces and analyze classified traces by means of TF-IDF. We also considered the impact of time on the decreasing importance of traces. We show how to offer users recommendations and decision aid.