Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008, Volume 5103/2008, 331-338, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69389-5_38

Towards Large Scale Semantic Annotation Built on MapReduce Architecture

Michal Laclavík, Martin Šeleng and Ladislav Hluchý

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Abstract

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.

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