Andrews, Pierre and Zaihrayeu, Ilya and Pane, Juan
Semantic Web Journal
IOS Press
December 2011
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.
Keywords: Semantic, semantic annotation, vocabulary, classification scheme, tag, attributes, ontology
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