Controlled natural language for semantic annotation

Abstract

Sovereign is a novel collection of resources for authoring(1), annotating(2) and accessing(3) knowledge on the Social Semantic Desktop. With respect to (2), the Sovereign Semantic Annotator allows the non-expert user in a novel way to semi-automatically author and annotate meeting minutes and status reports simultaneously using Controlled Natural Language(CNL). The metadata is captured as knowledge on the Social Semantic Desktop for later aggregation and access. The annotator is based on Controlled Language for Information Extraction (CLIE) technology. Furthermore, it is available as a plugin for a semantic note-taking application for the Social Semantic Desktop. We intend to present a working prototype of the Sovereign annotator for the Social Semantic Desktop at ESWC. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.