gIBIS: a hypertext tool for exploratory policy discussion
CSCW '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
gIBIS: a hypertext tool for team design deliberation
HYPERTEXT '87 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
An annotation scheme for discourse-level argumentation in research articles
EACL '99 Proceedings of the ninth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
International Journal of Intelligent Systems - Computational Models of Natural Argumentation
Modelling discourse in contested domains: a semiotic and cognitive framework
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
SIOC: an approach to connect web-based communities
International Journal of Web Based Communities
The SWAN biomedical discourse ontology
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
KonneXSALT: first steps towards a semantic claim federation infrastructure
ESWC'08 Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications
The SWRC ontology – semantic web for research communities
EPIA'05 Proceedings of the 12th Portuguese conference on Progress in Artificial Intelligence
ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
Ontology paper: FaBiO and CiTO: Ontologies for describing bibliographic resources and citations
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
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Dissemination can be seen as a communication process between scientists, in which they expose and support their findings, while discussing claims stated in related scientific publications. Often this discourse structure is hidden in the semantics expressed by the publication's content and thus hard to discover by the reader. Externalization, the process of articulating tacit knowledge into explicit concepts, holds the key to knowledge creation. Consequently, the knowledge becomes crystallized, thus allowing it to be shared with and by others. In this paper, we present SALT (Semantically Annotated LATEX), a semantic authoring framework that aims at defining a clear formalization for externalizing the knowledge captured within rhetorical and argumentation discourses. SALT follows a layered approach with the goal of providing a comprehensive domain-independent model for scientific publications, based of three ontologies: (i) the Document Ontology, capturing the linear structure of the publication, (ii) the Rhetorical Ontology, modeling the rhetorical and argumentation, and (iii) the Annotation Ontology, linking the rhetoric and argumentation to the publication's structure and content. SALT can be used independently of the writing environment. As proof-of-concept, we show its application in LATEX, based on a special LATEX syntax and in MS Word 2003, using visual controls. The resulting semantic documents can be used in a variety of applications, one of them being briefly detailed in this paper. Finally, in addition to a detailed discussion on the state-of-the-art, the paper presents the evaluation we have carried out, to analyze the framework's soundness, suitability for the task and its general usability during the authoring process.