Semantic annotation for knowledge management: Requirements and a survey of the state of the art

  • Authors:

  • Victoria Uren;Philipp Cimiano;José Iria;Siegfried Handschuh;Maria Vargas-Vera;Enrico Motta;Fabio Ciravegna

  • Affiliations:

  • Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK;Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 21 1Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK;FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany;Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK;Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK;Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 21 1Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK

  • Venue:
  • Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

While much of a company's knowledge can be found in text repositories, current content management systems have limited capabilities for structuring and interpreting documents. In the emerging Semantic Web, search, interpretation and aggregation can be addressed by ontology-based semantic mark-up. In this paper, we examine semantic annotation, identify a number of requirements, and review the current generation of semantic annotation systems. This analysis shows that, while there is still some way to go before semantic annotation tools will be able to address fully all the knowledge management needs, research in the area is active and making good progress.