Semantic Word Processing for Content Authors

Document authors cannot routinely afford the overhead imposed by current semantic annotation tools. Some characteristics of their task can be exploited to provide them with a tool that will reduce the effort required to create both the document content and their accompanying semantic annotations. SemanticWord is such a semantic annotation tool. SemanticWord is an environment based in MS Word that integrates content and markup authoring, providing customizable tools that allow simultaneous generation of content and semantic annotations, an annotation scheme that allows annotations to be reused when content is reused, a customizable library of templates containing partially annotated text, and an automatic information extraction system with the tools for refining and augmenting its output.