Ontology-enablement of a system for semantic annotation of digital documents

William J. Black, Simon Jowett, Thomas Mavroudakis, John Mcnaught, Babis Theodoulidis, Argyrios Vasilakopoulos, Gian Piero Zarri, Kalliopi Zervanou

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Abstract

We describe the recent enhancement of the CAFETIERE formalism (Conceptual Annotation of Facts, Events, Terms, Individual Entities and RElations) with the ability to link natural language words and phrases in textual documents with instances and classes from a language-enabled ontology. The language-enabled ontology is one with an index from one or more natural language expressions to each concept (as in WordNet). In an information extraction application. the index, ontology and instance repository are consulted in place of the usual gazetteer prior to the application of the context-sensitive phrase structure rules of the CAFETIERE formalism. Information from the ontology and its instances is cached so that rules can be constrained by properties of objects and can in turn build representations using those properties. We describe the notational extensions to CAFETIERE and give examples of the extraction of event instances in the analysis of texts relative to a specific application ontology. Relevant background is given on the architecture and common annotation scheme of the Parmenides system (FP5 project), in the context of which this work has been done.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation ( SemAnnot 2004 ) located at the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2004 8th November 2004, Hiroshima, Japan
EditorsSiegfried Handschuh, Thierry Declerck, Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Rose Dieng, V. Richard Benjamins, Steffen Staab
PublisherCEUR-WS.org
Pages41-50
Number of pages10
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2004
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation, SemAnnot 2004 - Located at the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2004 - Hiroshima, Japan
Duration: 8 Nov 20048 Nov 2004

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume184
ISSN (Print)1613-0073

Conference

Conference4th International Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation, SemAnnot 2004 - Located at the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2004
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityHiroshima
Period8/11/048/11/04

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