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The Case for Explicit Knowledge in Documents

The Case for Explicit Knowledge in Documents
The Case for Explicit Knowledge in Documents
The Web is full of documents which must be interpreted by human readers and by software agents (search engines, recommender systems, clustering processes etc). Although Web standards have addressed format obfuscation by using XML schemas and stylesheets to specify unambiguous structure and presentation semantics, interpretation is still hampered by the fundamental ambiguity of information in #PCDATA text. Even the most easily distinguishable kinds of knowledge such as article citations and proper nouns (referring to people, organisations, projects, products, technical concepts) have to be identified by fallible, post-hoc extraction processes. The WiCK project has investigated the writing process in a Semantic Web environment where knowledge services exist and actively assist the author. In this paper we discuss the need to make knowledge an explicit part of the document representation and the advantages and disadvantages of this step.
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Carr, Leslie
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Carr, Leslie, Miles-Board, Timothy, Woukeu, Arouna, Wills, Gary and Hall, Wendy (2004) The Case for Explicit Knowledge in Documents. ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 28 - 30 Oct 2004. pp. 90-98 .

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Abstract

The Web is full of documents which must be interpreted by human readers and by software agents (search engines, recommender systems, clustering processes etc). Although Web standards have addressed format obfuscation by using XML schemas and stylesheets to specify unambiguous structure and presentation semantics, interpretation is still hampered by the fundamental ambiguity of information in #PCDATA text. Even the most easily distinguishable kinds of knowledge such as article citations and proper nouns (referring to people, organisations, projects, products, technical concepts) have to be identified by fallible, post-hoc extraction processes. The WiCK project has investigated the writing process in a Semantic Web environment where knowledge services exist and actively assist the author. In this paper we discuss the need to make knowledge an explicit part of the document representation and the advantages and disadvantages of this step.

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Published date: May 2004
Additional Information: Event Dates: October 28-30
Venue - Dates: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2004-10-28 - 2004-10-30
Organisations: Web & Internet Science, Electronic & Software Systems

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Local EPrints ID: 259360
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/259360
PURE UUID: 1fe00727-954d-483c-9637-652c4056f139
ORCID for Leslie Carr: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2113-9680
ORCID for Gary Wills: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5771-4088
ORCID for Wendy Hall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4327-7811

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Date deposited: 19 May 2004
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:51

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Author: Leslie Carr ORCID iD
Author: Timothy Miles-Board
Author: Arouna Woukeu
Author: Gary Wills ORCID iD
Author: Wendy Hall ORCID iD

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