Abstract
The Henri Poincaré correspondence is a corpus composed of around 2100 letters which is a rich source of information for historians of science. Semantic Web technologies provide a way to structure and publish data related to this kind of corpus. However, Semantic Web data editing is a process which often requires human intervention and may seem tedious for the user. This article introduces 
, an editor which aims at facilitating annotation of documents. This tool uses case-based reasoning (cbr) to provide suggestions for the user which are related to the current document annotation process. These suggestions are found and ranked by considering the annotation context related to the resource currently being edited and by looking for similar resources already annotated in the database. Several methods and combinations of methods are presented here, as well as the evaluation associated with each of them.
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Turtle is a rdf serialization which is easily readable [8].
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If a fact is not asserted, it does not imply that this fact is false. In this situation, there may exist a resource r that is intended to represent a person (resp. institution) but is such that the triple \(\langle r~~\texttt {a}~~\texttt {Person}\rangle \) (resp. \(\langle r~~\texttt {a}~~\texttt {Institution}\rangle \)) cannot be entailed by the current rdfs base. Therefore, r can be suggested as well, though further in the suggestion list.
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At the time of writing this article, there are around 1800 persons defined within the database.
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This suggestion could be removed if the system knows that the recipient of a letter cannot be its sender. This is considered again in the future work part of this article conclusion.
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This work was supported partly by the french PIA project “Lorraine Université d’Excellence”, reference ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE. It was also supported by the CPER LCHN (Contrat de Plan État-Région Lorrain “Langues, Connaissances et Humanités Numériques”) that financed engineer Ismaël Bada who participated to this project. We greatly thank Mickaël Smodis who is a final user of the tool and who participated to the human evaluation and Laurent Rollet who provided us with unpublished letters of the Henri Poincaré correspondence.
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Lasolle, N., Bruneau, O., Lieber, J., Nauer, E., Pavlova, S. (2020). Assisting the RDF Annotation of a Digital Humanities Corpus Using Case-Based Reasoning. In: Pan, J.Z., et al. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2020. ISWC 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12507. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62466-8_38
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