SIG5 - Language Technology for the Semantic Web: Knowledge Markup

Turning the web into a Semantic Web implies widespread annotation of documents with ontology based knowledge markup. Many of these documents consist of free text in different languages, which can only be marked up in an efficient way by use of automatic, language technology tools. Obviously, it will then be of political and cultural importance that such authoring support for automatic knowledge markup will be available for many languages, thereby avoiding that only documents in some languages will become part of the semantic web.