KBSET – Knowledge-Based Support for Scholarly Editing and Text Processing with Declarative Markup and a Core Written in SWI-Prolog

Abstract

KBSET supports a practical workflow for scholarly editing, based on using L A T E X with dedicated commands for semantics-oriented markup and a Prolog-implemented core system. Prolog plays there various roles: as query language and access mechanism for large Semantic Web fact bases, as data representation of structured documents and as a workflow model for advanced application tasks. The core system includes a L A T E X parser and a facility for the identification of named entities. We also sketch future perspectives of this approach to scholarly editing based on techniques of computational logic.