Semantically Enhanced Software Documentation Processes

High-quality software documentation is a substantial issue for understanding software systems. Shorter time-to-market software cycles increase the importance of automatism for keeping the documentation up to date. In this paper, we describe the automatic support of the software documentation process using semantic technologies. We introduce a software documentation ontology as an underlying knowledge base. The defined ontology is populated automatically by analysing source code, software documentation and code execution. Through selected results we demonstrate that the use of such semantic systems can support software documentation processes efficiently

Integration and Semantic Enrichment of Explicit Knowledge through a Multimedia, Multi-source, Metadata-based Knowledge Artefact Repository

Abstract: Explicit knowledge is often stored in various repositories within a company. As APOSDLE aims at considering the whole intellectual capital of companies, we are coping with the task to integrate the content of several and different repositories within the APOSDLE platform. Further, other modules in the APOSDLE system also require functionality to semantically enrich knowledge artefacts like documents or multimedia objects. In this paper, we present our approach to these challenges, namely the “Multimedia, Multi-source, Metadatabased Knowledge Artefact Repository”. After presenting the basic idea and critical issues of this solution, we point out related technological approaches as well as their limitations. Finally, we report about a first prototype realising this idea and our experiences gained so far

XML and MPEG-7 for Interactive Annotation and Retrieval using Semantic Meta-data

The evolution of the Web is not only accompanied by an increasing diversity of multimedia but by new requirements towards intelligent research capabilities, user specific assistance, intuitive user interfaces and platform independent information presentation. To reach these and further upcoming requirements new standardized Web technologies and XML based description languages are used. The Web Information Space has transformed into a Knowledge marketplace where worldwide located participants take part into the creation, annotation and consumption of knowledge. This paper points out the design of semantic retrieval frameworks and a prototype implementation for audio and video annotation, storage and retrieval using the MPEG-7 standard and semantic web reference implementations. MPEG-7 plays an important role towards the standardized enrichment of multimedia with semantics on higher abstraction levels and a related improvement of query results

Cross Media Retrieval in Knowledge Discovery

Abstract. Recent trends show that more and more digital cameras, video cameras and DVD recorders are sold and the number of emails and other messages sent increases each year. For example it is estimated that there will be nearly 300 million digital image capture devices in use worldwide through 2004, capturing about 29 billion digital pictures [12]. Users not only produce huge amounts of content, but this content is also spread over many different media types and document formats. Storing all contents implicates a great extent of documents in large, heterogeneous data repositories. Performing effective retrieval in heterogeneous repositories requires new approaches: documents in different formats containing different media types have to be transformed to a common denominator, and relations between contents of different media types must be established. This allows direct comparison of contents of different media types. In this paper we present a prototype called Magick that implements such an approach to cross-media retrieval