Abstract

OntoMat-Annotizer is a user-friendly interactive webpage annotation tool. It supports the user with the task of creating and maintaining ontology-based OWL-markups i.e. creating of OWL-instances, attributes and relationships. It include an ontology browser for the exploration of the ontology and instances and a HTML browser that will display the annotated parts of the text. It is Java-based and provide a plugin interface for extensions. The intended user is the individual annotator i.e., people that want to enrich their web pages with OWL-meta data. Instead of manually annotating the page with a text editor, say, emacs, OntoMat allows the annotator to highlight relevant parts of the web page and create new instances via drag?n?drop interactions. It supports the meta-data creation phase of the lifecycle. It is planned that a future version will contain an information extraction plugin, that offers a wizard which suggest which parts of the text are relevant for annotation. That aspect will help to ease the time-consuming annotation task.

Notes

We only tested OntoMat-Annotizer for Windows and Linux. If you try out another platform, please let us know your experience. Java 1.4.0 is recommended. Further development will relay on 1.4 features.

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OntoMat-Annotizer Team

OntoMat-Annotizer is a tool of the OntoAgent Project:
Siegfried Handschuh: created the inital architecture together with the help of Leo Meyer, currently works on information extraction.
Matthias Braun: Rewrote the core from daml/oil using Ontobroker to use the Jena framework for owl-support. General code and UI cleanups and improvements.
Kai Kuehn: Created the PANKOW plugin (knowledge retrieval with the help of google), work on DB-Annotation and the HTML editor.
Leo Meyer: he is now working on Deep Annotation and the macro & scripting language for OntoMat.

Related papers to the OntoMat-Annotizer

Authoring and Annotation of Web Pages in CREAM
(Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab). WWW 2002

CREAM - Creating relational metadata with a component-based, ontology driven annotation framework
(Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab, Alexander Maedche). K-CAP 2001

S-CREAM - Semi-automatic CREAtion of Metadata.
(S. Handschuh, S. Staab, F.Ciravegna). EKAW-2002, Madrid, Spain, October 1-4, 2002

On Deep Annotation
(S. Handschuh, S. Staab, R.Volz). WWW-2003, Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003

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Siegfried Handschuh
University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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