The Semantic Web realization depends on the availability of critical mass of metadata for the web content, linked to formal knowledge about the world. This paper presents our vision about a holistic system allowing annotation, indexing, and retrieval of documents with respect to real-world entities. A system (called KIM), partially implementing this concept is shortly presented and used for evaluation and demonstration. Our understanding is that a system for semantic annotation should be based upon specific knowledge about the world, rather than indifferent to any ontological commitments and general knowledge. To assure efficiency and reusability of the metadata we introduce a simplistic upper-level ontology which starts with some basic philosophic distinctions and goes down to the most popular entity types (people, companies, cities, etc.), thus providing many of the inter-domain common sense concepts and allowing easy domain-specific extensions. Based on the ontology, an extensive knowledge base of entities descriptions is maintained. Semantically enhanced information extraction system providing automatic annotation with references to classes in the ontology and instances in the knowledge base is presented. Based on these annotations, we perform IR-like indexing and retrieval, further extended using the ontology and knowledge about the specific entities.
To effectively use ontologies on the Web, it is essential that changes in ontologies are managed well. This paper analyzes the topic of ontology versioning in the context of the Web by looking at the characteristics of the version relation between ontologies and at the identification of online ontologies. Then, it describes the design of a web-based system that helps users to manage changes in ontologies. The system helps to keep different versions of web-based ontologies interoperable, by maintaining not only the transformations between ontologies, but also the conceptual relation between concepts in different versions. The system allows ontology engineers to compare versions of ontology and to specify these conceptual relations. For the visualization of differences, it uses an adaptable rule-based mechanism that finds and classifies changes in RDF-based ontologies.
The KIM platform provides a novel Knowledge and Information Management framework and services for automatic semantic annotation, indexing, and retrieval of documents. It provides a mature and semantically enabled infrastructure for scalable and customizable information extraction (IE) as well as annotation and document management, based on GATE. 1 Our understanding is that a system for semantic annotation should be based upon a simple model of real-world entity concepts, complemented with quasi-exhaustive instance knowledge. To ensure efficiency, easy sharing, and reusability of the metadata we introduce an upper-level ontology. Based on the ontology, a large-scale instance base of entity descriptions is maintained. The knowledge resources involved are handled by use of state-of-the-art Semantic Web technology and standards, including RDF(S) repositories, ontology middleware and reasoning. From a technical point of view, the platform allows KIM-based applications to use it for automatic semantic annotation, for content retrieval based on semantic queries, and for semantic repository access. As a framework, KIM also allows various IE modules, semantic repositories and information retrieval engines to be plugged into it. This paper presents the KIM platform, with an emphasis on its architecture, interfaces, front-ends, and other technical issues. 2 http://www.searchlores.org, the home of a group of "web lore searching" researchers.
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