A Method for Assessing Website Communicative Efficacy Using a Semantic Annotation Tool

Semantic Annotation for Assessing Website Communicative Efficacy1

Modern organizations face the challenge of communicating their marketing strategies through the Web, besides the traditional means of communication, i.e., newspapers and television. In this context, evaluation of the communicative efficacy of websites becomes a ‘must’ for exploiting the power of such communication channels. In this paper, we propose a systematic method and a tool that supports ...

Semantic-Based Image Retrial in the VQ Compressed Domain using Image Annotation Statistical Models

The qTA Toolkit for Prosody: Learning Underlying Parameters of Communicative Functions through Modeling

This paper presents the qTA toolkit, a general-purpose research toolkit for studying speech prosody. The toolkit consists of analysis and visualization tools. The analysis tool processes F0 and timing data together with annotation of communicative functions to estimate function-specific underlying pitch targets and their function-specific adjustments. The visualization tool generates illustrati...

A Unified Annotation Scheme for the Semantic/Pragmatic Components of Definiteness

We present a definiteness annotation scheme that captures the semantic, pragmatic, and discourse information associated with noun phrases, which we call communicative functions. A survey of the linguistics literature suggests that definiteness does not express a single communicative function but is a grammaticalization of many such functions, for example, identifiability, familiarity, uniquenes...

Using the NCBO Web Services for Concept Recognition and Ontology Annotation of Expression Datasets

To provide enhanced access to expression datasets housed in the NCBI’s Gene Expression Omnibus database and to enable new opportunities for data mining we are using the NCBO’s Open Biomedical Annotator service to identify concepts and ontology terms in GEO records. Based on this first pass annotation we are curating these datasets using a variety of ontologies covering concepts of relevance to ...