Bootstrapping document annotation with Schema.org

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Abstract

The recently started Schema.org initiative of the major search engine providers aims at fostering semantic annotations across the Web. You can read about it here.  Semi-automatic annotation of natural language documents is a long-standing problem area. The goal of this project would be to apply state-of-the-art annotation techniques to a large corpus based on the Schema.org semantic model.

Prerequisites

Some familiarity with topics from Computational Linguistics and Knowledge, Representation and Reasoning.