Abstract
The goal of this paper is the presentation of a methodology to evaluate the question of open and short Arabic language responses during a learning activity. The proposed methodology is based on the combination representation of knowledge and concept map of ontologies. The proposed method is based on the following steps: Processing the text of the learner candidate's answer by eliminating the empty words and the sound of the text; Extracting information from the learner's response and design in the form of a conceptual table; The comparison between the reference and the learner's answer and the attribution of a score while using similarity semantics measurements; Calculation of the score according to the results of semantic similarity measures.