Abstract

In a world of overwhelming on-line information access and global communications, more and more people are asked to provide faster and more accurate answers based on up-to-date knowledge that is increasingly more disseminated in vast amounts of information sources. The problem is especially acute in the world of intelligence analysis, the proposed application area for this work.
There are two key research objectives in this work. First, we propose to develop techniques to capture and exploit semantic interrelationships among information items. Our approach will be to use a semantic markup vocabulary that will enable users to specify semantic annotations not only the information items themselves but also the links that users make to relate individual items. We will provide a core vocabulary that will contain both general and domain-specific terms, and that will be extensible by users. We will develop tools that …

Date

August 24, 2001

Authors

Yolanda Gil