We present REPORTS, an annotation scheme for the annotation of speech, attitude and perception reports. The scheme makes it possible to annotate the various text elements involved in such reports (e.g. embedding entity, complement, complement head) and their relations in a uniform way, which in turn facilitates the automatic extraction of information on, for example, complementation and vocabul...

In the task of image and audio annotation, it is typical for labels to be assigned independently. While some correlations may be modeled, it is rare for all interdependencies between labels to be considered. This is because exact inference on a dense, cyclical graphical model is often intractable. This paper applies an approximate inference method, log-determinant relaxation (LDR), to a fully c...

Functional annotation of novel sequence data is a primary requirement for the utilization of functional genomics approaches in plant research. In this paper, we describe the Blast2GO suite as a comprehensive bioinformatics tool for functional annotation of sequences and data mining on the resulting annotations, primarily based on the gene ontology (GO) vocabulary. Blast2GO optimizes function tr...

In order to provide multimedia (e.g. image/video) retrieval capabilities, digital libraries have depended on manual annotation of images. Providing a way to perform annotation automatically would be more useful, efficient and scalable with expanding image collections. In this paper, we study the Co-Occurrence Model [2] where, by training on a set of images with given keywords, we can automatica...

The Gene Ontology (GO) project (http://www.geneontology.org) develops and uses a set of structured, controlled vocabularies for community use in annotating genes, gene products and sequences (also see http://song.sourceforge.net/). The GO Consortium continues to improve to the vocabulary content, reflecting the impact of several novel mechanisms of incorporating community input. A growing numbe...

Our system OSVIRA (Ontology-Based System for Semantic Information Retrieval Visio-conference and Annotation) is devoted to the development of help to annotation and semantic search of multimedia conferencing resources. It is based on the use of ontology associated with dense thesaurus. It allows using multiple ontology relating to the same seamlessly domain with the ability to define links of e...

The Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium has produced a controlled vocabulary for annotation of gene function that is used in many organism-specific gene annotation databases. This allows the prediction of gene function based on patterns of annotation. For example, if annotations for two attributes tend to occur together in a database, then a gene holding one attribute is likely to hold the other as w...

This paper is a contribution to the ongoing discussion on treebank annotation schemes and their impact on PCFG parsing results. We provide a thorough comparison of two German treebanks: the TIGER treebank and the TüBa-D/Z. We use simple statistics on sentence length and vocabulary size, and more refined methods such as perplexity and its correlation with PCFG parsing results, as well as a Princ...

Provision of multiple-choice (MC) glosses, which combines the advantages of glosses and inferring, has recently gained its share of supporters as a potential technique for enhancing L2 texts and increasing word gain for L2 learners. Upon taking an actual TOEFL, the participants underwent a vocabulary pretest to ensure that the target words were unfamiliar to all of them. Half of the participant...

In this paper we discuss the use of a multimedia content model for automatic extraction of semantic metadata from multimedia content. We developed a modular and extensible framework to model the content feature of multimedia data and also describe the way it can be integrated with other existing vocabularies. The goal of this model is to generate sufficient understanding of media content, its c...