Content Augmentation

Automatic content augmentation is typically approached with Human Language Technology (HLT) methods, and more specifically, Information Extraction.

IE deals with automatically deriving the semantics of multimodal content. HLT is being used for automating knowledge acquisition and metadata creation from textual content as part of the SEKT, Esperonto and other related projects.

In TAO, we will go beyond the state of the art by enhancing these methods to support metadata creation and augmentation from diverse content types relating to legacy applications (e.g., software documentation, screenshot images, training videos).

The components implemented will be made part of GATE (http://gate.ac.uk) – one of the most mature and popular open-source language technology platforms, which already provides a large number of tools in many languages.

Related Publications

Damljanovic, D. and Bontcheva, K. “Towards Enhanced Usability of Natural Language Interfaces to Knowledge Bases”. Submitted to Special issue on Semantic Web and Web 2.0, Annals of Information systems, Springer, 2009. (To Appear).

Damljanovic, D. and Bontcheva, K. “Enhanced Semantic Access to Software Artefacts”. 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE'08), in collaboration with ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October, 2008.

Amardeilh F. "Semantic Annotation & Ontology Population", In Semantic Web Engineering in the Knowledge Society, Cardoso Jorge and Lytras Miltiadis D. (Eds), Idea Group Reference, 2008. Abstract - PDF.

Tablan, V., Damljanovic, D. and Bontcheva, K. "A natural language query interface to structured information", In Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Tenerife, Spain, June, 2008.

Damljanovic, D., Tablan, V., Bontcheva, K. "A text-based query interface to owl ontologies", In: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco, ELRA, May, 2008.

Funk, A., Tablan, V., Bontcheva, K., Cunningham, H. Davis, B. and Handschuh S. "CLOnE: Controlled Language for Ontology Editing". In Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, Korea, November 11-15, 2007.

Amardeilh, Florence and Vatant, Bernard. "Functional Wheels and Conceptual Brakes : Will your ontology take-off?". At TIA07, Sophia - Antipolias, 08-09 October 2007.