Hello Markus, And thank you very much! This information means a lot to me. At least, I will not try any more.
Best regards, Srecko Joksimovic On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Markus Krötzsch < mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > On 01/08/11 10:42, srecko joksimovic wrote: > >> Hello, >> I am new to Semantic MediaWiki, and maybe this is not the place to ask a >> question like this, but I have a project to finish and I hope someone >> could help me. >> The point is that I have my ontology, based on SKOS, with defined >> concepts. On the other hand, I have text which I should annotate based >> on this ontology. And the main thing is that I should do that from Java >> application. >> >> Could someone please tell me if it is possible to load my own ontology, >> and annotate (search concepts in) text, based on that ontology, using >> SMV as a platform? >> > > Hi Srecko, > > I am not sure if SMW is what you need. SMW is used by communities that > manage data. Doing this leads to a lightweight ontology that is part of the > wiki content, but it is not possible to use arbitrary ontologies in SMW > (many features of the OWL ontology language are not used by SMW). > > Moreover, SMW is not a text annotation tool. It is possible to maintain the > semantic data as part of the text in a wiki, but the data is not annotating > the text. In other words, data always refers to wiki pages, not to sentences > or words in a text that might be found on a page. > > Finally, SMW is not a Java application. > > So if your goal is to annotate texts based on a background ontology within > a Java application, then SMW is not a very good match to your needs. SMW is > very flexible and can be used for many tasks, but unless you need at least > some of the features that SMW offers, there is little merit in trying to > overcome the above limitations. > > Regards, > > Markus >
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