OntoELAN. An Ontology-Based Linguistic Multimedia Annotator Export

@proceedings{citeulike:165589, abstract = {Despite its scientific, political, and practical value, comprehensive information about human languages, in all their variety and complexity, is not readily obtainable and searchable. One reason is that many language data are collected as audio and video recordings which imposes a challenge to document indexing and retrieval. Annotation of multimedia data provides an opportunity for making the semantics explicit and facilitates the searching of multimedia documents. We have developed OntoELAN, an ontology-based linguistic multimedia annotator that features: (1) support for loading and displaying ontologies specified in OWL; (2) creation of a language profile, which allows a user to choose a subset of terms from an ontology and conveniently rename them if needed; (3) creation of ontological tiers, which can be annotated with profile terms and, therefore, corresponding ontological terms; and (4) saving annotations in the XML format as Multimedia Ontology class instances and, linked to them, class instances of other ontologies used in ontological tiers. To our best knowledge, OntoELAN is the first audio/video annotation tool in linguistic domain that provides support for ontology-based annotation.}, citeulike-article-id = {165589}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1376679}, journal = {Multimedia Software Engineering, 2004. Proceedings. IEEE Sixth International Symposium on}, keywords = {annotation, semweb, tools, video}, pages = {329--336}, posted-at = {2005-04-20 21:23:29}, priority = {3}, title = {OntoELAN. An Ontology-Based Linguistic Multimedia Annotator}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1376679}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:165589 L3 - citeulike-article-id:165589 N2 - Despite its scientific, political, and practical value, comprehensive information about human languages, in all their variety and complexity, is not readily obtainable and searchable. One reason is that many language data are collected as audio and video recordings which imposes a challenge to document indexing and retrieval. Annotation of multimedia data provides an opportunity for making the semantics explicit and facilitates the searching of multimedia documents. We have developed OntoELAN, an ontology-based linguistic multimedia annotator that features: (1) support for loading and displaying ontologies specified in OWL; (2) creation of a language profile, which allows a user to choose a subset of terms from an ontology and conveniently rename them if needed; (3) creation of ontological tiers, which can be annotated with profile terms and, therefore, corresponding ontological terms; and (4) saving annotations in the XML format as Multimedia Ontology class instances and, linked to them, class instances of other ontologies used in ontological tiers. To our best knowledge, OntoELAN is the first audio/video annotation tool in linguistic domain that provides support for ontology-based annotation. JF - Multimedia Software Engineering, 2004. Proceedings. IEEE Sixth International Symposium on EP - 336 TI - OntoELAN. An Ontology-Based Linguistic Multimedia Annotator SP - 329 KW - annotation KW - semweb KW - tools KW - video PY - 2004/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1376679 ER -