Cerno: Light-weight tool support for semantic annotation of textual documents

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1470-1492

  Kiyavitskaya, Nadzeya ^a   Zeni, Nicola ^a   Cordy, James R ^b   Mich, Luisa ^a   Mylopoulos, John ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

20.1 Re and reverse engineering; 23 Natural language for DKE; 8.4 Semantic web; Semantic annotation

Indexed keywords

23 NATURAL LANGUAGE FOR DKE; 8.4 SEMANTIC WEB; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; DOCUMENT ORGANIZATION; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL; LEGACY CODE; LIGHT WEIGHT; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SEMANTIC ANNOTATION; SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS; SEMANTIC METADATA; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TEXT DOCUMENT; TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS; TOOL SUPPORT; WEB DATA;

LINGUISTICS; METADATA; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SEMANTIC WEB;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 71749084409     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2009.07.012     Document Type: Article

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