Advanced User Interfaces for Semantic Annotation of Complex Relations in Text

This paper deals with computer-assisted semantic annotation of text. It particularly focuses on the annotation of complex relations and linking of entities with highly ambiguous names. These tasks cannot be reliably accomplished by fully automatic methods today. Our research explores user interface features that can help the manual annotation process. We extend our original experiments published in the Interaction Patterns in Computer-assisted Semantic Annotation of Text - An Empirical Evaluation by a detailed analysis of advantages brought by the semantic filtering feature of our 4A annotation system. We also expand our user study on the annotation of highly ambiguous entities showing speed-ups brought by a presentation mode for entity candidates employing advanced disambiguation contexts.