A classification of semantic annotation systems

  • Authors:

  • Pierre Andrews;Ilya Zaihrayeu;Juan Pane

  • Affiliations:

  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, The University of Trento, Italy E-mail: {andrews,ilya,pane}@disi.unitn.it;Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, The University of Trento, Italy E-mail: {andrews,ilya,pane}@disi.unitn.it;Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, The University of Trento, Italy E-mail: {andrews,ilya,pane}@disi.unitn.it

  • Venue:
  • Semantic Web
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The Subject-Predicate-Object triple annotation system is now well adopted in the research community, however, it does not always speak to end-users. In fact, explaining all the complexity of semantic annotation systems to laymen can sometime be difficult. We believe that this communication can be simplified by providing a meaningful abstraction of the state of the art in semantic annotation models and thus, in this article, we describe the issue of semantic annotation and review a number of research and end-user tools in the field. Doing so, we provide a clear classification scheme of the features of annotation systems. We then show how this scheme can be used to clarify requirements of end-user use cases and thus simplify the communication between semantic annotation experts and the actual users of this technology.