How to Create Topic Maps
Paper, was published by Ronny Kerk and Stefan Groschupf at 2003-10-23
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This paper is a work report of an intershipt at media style and describes the search for a
feasible approach for Topic Maps creating. After having a look on Topic Map authoring
by humans, two strategies for automatic Topic Map generation are discussed in the main
part of this report. One is to use semantic metadata of the corpus the Topic Map should
be created of and the second is to use named entity extraction for getting the topics and
further using a part-of-spech-tagger for getting their associations. We argue, that the
latter is a promising approach for large text bases with unstructured documents.
Though the main concepts of Topic Maps will be mentioned, it is not our purpose to fully
explain the technology of Topic Maps. There are other papers which do this.
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Stefan Groschupf
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As a former information scientist, I am fascinated since 1999 by the capabilities for building Topic Maps-based knowledge systems having the potential to augment human mind. One can model arbitrary knowledge organization systems, deal with semantic heterogeneity, collocate all facts about one subject in one logical place, and with TMQL have semantic retrieval on federated semantic networks. Therefore I expect bright prospects for business concepts building on the exchange of such knowledge snippets via semantic knowledge services.
