ProcessTron: efficient semi-automated markup generation for scientific documents
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Abstract
Digitizing legacy documents and marking them up with XML is important for many scientific domains. However, creating comprehensive semantic markup of high quality is challenging. Respective processes consist of many steps, with automated markup generation and intermediate manual correction. These corrections are extremely laborious. To reduce this effort, this paper makes two contributions: First, it proposes ProcessTron, a lightweight markup-process-control mechanism. ProcessTron assists users in two ways: It ensures that the steps are executed in the appropriate order, and it points the user to possible errors during manual correction. Second, ProcessTron has been deployed in real-world projects, and this paper reports on our experiences. A core observation is that ProcessTron more than halves the time users need to mark up a document. Results from laboratory experiments, which we have conducted as well, confirm this finding.
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ESWC 2009 Heraklion: Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web: Research and ApplicationsDigitized legacy document marked up with XML can be used in many ways, e.g., to generate RDF statements about the world described. A prerequisite for doing so is that the document markup is of sufficient quality. Since fully automated markup-generation ...
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ISBN:9781450300858
DOI:10.1145/1816123
- General Chair:
- Jane Hunter,
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- Carl Lagoze,
- Lee Giles,
- Yuan-Fang Li
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