A pilot investigation of Information Extraction in the semantic annotation of archaeological reports

Vlachidis, Andreas; Tudhope, Douglas

Abstract

The paper discusses a prototype investigation of semantic annotation, a form of metadata assigning conceptual entities to textual instances; in the case of archaeological grey literature. The use of Information Extraction (IE), a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique, is central to the annotation process while the use of Knowledge Organization System (KOS) is explored for the association of semantic annotation with both ontological and terminological references. The annotation process follows a rule-based information extraction approach using the GATE NLP toolkit, together with the CIDOC CRM ontology, its CRM-EH archaeological extension and English Heritage thesauri and glossaries. Results are reported from an initial evaluation, which suggest that these information extraction techniques can be applied to archaeological grey literature reports. Further work is discussed drawing on the evaluation and consideration of the characteristics of the archaeology domain. Copyright © 2012 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2012
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 8, 2019
• Journal: International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
• Print ISSN: 1744-2621
• Electronic ISSN: 1744-263X
• Publisher: Inderscience
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 222-235
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2012.050183
• Keywords: NLP, natural language processing, KOS, knowledge organisation systems, semantic annotation, information extraction, GATE, digital archaeology, grey literature, CIDOC CRM ontology, archaeological reports, metadata
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/956169
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2012.050183
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final publiashed version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2012.050183.