Norbert E. Fuchs, Rolf Schwitter:
Web-Annotations for Humans and Machines.
Abstract
We propose to manually annotate web pages with
computer-processable controlled natural language. These annotations have
well-defined formal properties and can be used as query relevant summaries
to automatically answer questions expressed in controlled natural
language, and as the basis for other forms of automated reasoning. Last,
but not least, the annotations can also serve as human-readable summaries
of the contents of the web pages. Arguably, annotations written in
controlled natural language can bridge the gap between informal and formal
notations and leverage true collaboration between humans and
machines. This is a position paper that proposes a solution combining
existing methods and techniques to achieve a highly relevant practical
goal, namely how to effectively access information on the web. However,
our solution introduces a "chicken and egg" problem: a critical mass of
web annotations will be necessary that people perceive the value of these
annotations and start annotating web pages themselves. Only the future
will show whether this - basically non-technical - problem can be solved.
URL:
http://rewerse.net/publications/rewerse-publications.html#REWERSE-RP-2007-007
@inproceedings{REWERSE-RP-2007-007, author = {Norbert E. Fuchs and Rolf Schwitter}, title = {Web-Annotations for Humans and Machines}, booktitle = {Proceedings of 4th European Semantic Web Conference 2007, Innsbruck, Austria (3rd--7th June 2007)}, year = {2007}, volume = {4519}, series = {LNCS}, pages = {458--472}, url = {http://rewerse.net/publications/rewerse-publications.html#REWERSE-RP-2007-007} }