Theophrastus | On Demand and Real-Time Automatic Annotation and Exploration of (Web) Documents using Open Linked Data

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Theophrastus is a system that supports the automatic annotation of web documents through entity mining and provides exploration services by exploiting Linked Open Data (LOD), in real-time and only when needed. The system, which aims at assisting biologists in their research about species and biodiversity, was based on requirements coming from the biodiversity domain and was awarded the first prize in the Blue Hackathon 2013.

Theophrastus has been designed to be highly configurable regarding a number of different aspects like entities of interest (categories of entities), information cards and external search systems. As a result it can be exploited in different contexts and other domains/areas of interest.

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The Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) of FORTH-ICS

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Annotation and Semantic Exploration of Fish Species (PDF files are also supported)
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Pavlos Fafalios and Panagiotis Papadakos

Theophrastus: On Demand and Real-Time Automatic Annotation and Exploration of (Web) Documents using Open Linked Data

Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, Elsevier (ISSN: 1570-8268), 2014.

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In case you are interesting in using/extending the Theophrastus system, or for any comments/feedback, please send us an email at fafalios@ics.forth.gr.

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Institution:
Information System Laboratory (ISL), Institute of Computer Science (ICS),
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)

Contact Persons:
Pavlos Fafalios Email: fafalios@ics.forth.gr Personal Web page: http://users.ics.forth.gr/~fafalios/

Panagiotis Papadakos Email: papadako@ics.forth.gr Personal Web page: http://users.ics.forth.gr/~papadako

Acknowledgements:
This work was partially supported by:

Institute of Computer Science - Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas