Gimme' the context: context-driven automatic semantic annotation with C-PANKOW

Without the proliferation of formal semantic annotations, the Semantic Web is certainly doomed to failure. In earlier work we presented a new paradigm to avoid this: the 'Self Annotating Web', in which globally available knowledge is used to annotate resources such as web pages. In particular, we presented a concrete method instantiating this paradigm, called PANKOW (Pattern-based ANnotation through Knowledge On the Web). In PANKOW, a named entity to be annotated is put into several linguistic patterns that convey competing semantic meanings. The patterns that are matched most often on the Web indicate the meaning of the named entity -leading to automatic or semi-automatic annotation. In this paper we present C-PANKOW (Context-driven PANKOW), which alleviates several shortcomings of PANKOW. First, by downloading abstracts and processing them off-line, we avoid the generation of large number of linguistic patterns and correspondingly large number of Google queries. Second, by...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Günter Ladwig, Philipp Cimiano, Steffen Staab
• Keywords: Context-driven PANKOW, Internet Technology, Performance Keywords Annotation, Semantic Web Copyright, WWW 2005