Automated annotation of the web documents is a key challenge of the Semantic Web effort. Web documents are structured but
their structure is understandable only for a human that is the major problem of the Semantic Web. Semantic Web can be exploited
only if metadata understood by a computer reach critical mass. Semantic metadata can be created manually, using automated
annotation or tagging tools. Automated semantic annotation tools with the best results are built on different machine learning
algorithms requiring training sets. Another approach is to use pattern based semantic annotation solutions built on NLP, information
retrieval or information extraction methods. Most of developed methods are tested and evaluated on hundreds of documents which
cannot prove its real usage on large scale data such as web or email communication in enterprise or community environment.
In this paper we present how a pattern based annotation tool can benefit from Google’s MapReduce architecture to process large
amount of text data.
Keywords semantic annotation – information extraction – metadata – MapReduce
This work is supported by projects NAZOU SPVV 1025/2004, Commius FP7-213876, SEMCO-WS APVV-0391-06, VEGA 2/7098/27.