Università della Svizzera italiana

Concept-based semantic annotation, indexing and retrieval of office-like document units

Nešic, Saša ; Jazayeri, Mehdi ; Crestani, Fabio ; Gaševic, Dragan

We present an ontology-driven approach to semantic annotation, indexing and retrieval of document units. This approach is based on a novel semantic document model (SDM) that we developed to make office-like document units be uniquely identified, semantically annotated with concepts from annotation ontologies and linkable across document boundaries. In the semantic annotation model that we...