Fabio Ciravegna, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
[F.Ciravegna@dcs.shef.ac.uk]
ABOUT AMILCARE
Amilcare is an adaptive Information Extraction (IE) system intended as support
to document annotation in the Semantic Web framework. Amilcare was designed
bearing in mind issues such as usability (e.g. by naive Web users), cost of new
applications, portability and maintainability, which we believe to be main
design issues for enabling IE applications on Semantic Web scenarios. Amilcare can be used as a stand alone IE system or attached to another program via an API. read more
DOCUMENTATION MATERIAL
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We are no longer distributing Amilcare. Amilcare has now been replaced by TRex. TRex can be downloaded from here.
KNOWN USES
In the years,a number of systems have integrated Amilcare via API. Among them:
| Melita | This is our document annotation tool. It is supported by Amilcare to reduce the burden of annotating. If you are interested in Melita, please refer to the official web page. |
| Ontomat | developed at the University of Karlsruhe |
| MnM | developed at the Open University, UK. Amilcare works as a plugin to MnM. Please note: we no longer distribute the plugin |
| Ontoannotate | (Ontoprise, DE) |
| SemantiK | (Quinary, I) |
Users: (among others and in random order):
Industrial or Commercial Sites:
SAIC (Us), Max Planck Institute (D), Merck (D), Solcara (GB),
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Us),
Boeing (Us),
GlaxoSmithKline (Us),
Quinary (I), Ontoprise (D),
Mondeca (F),
Camera dei Deputati (Italian Parliament) (I)
Academic Sites:
University College Dublin (IE), CNRS (F),
University of Cambridge (UK), University of Trier (D),
NCRS Demokritos (Gr), Carnegie Mellon University (Usa)
University of Illinois (Usa), University of Texas, Austin (Usa), Open University (UK),
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Dk), University of Southampton (UK),
Arizona State University (Usa), Naval Postgraduate School Monterey
(Usa),
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Amilcare’s development is supported under
- the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC), which is sponsored by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under grant number GR/N15764/01.
- the EU funded project IST Dot.Kom project (Framework V, grant IST-2001-34038).
Amilcare uses Gate for some preliminary linguistic analysis. Gate isa tool for architectures for language engineering developed at the University of Sheffield. Gate is used for for tokenization, sentence identification, part of speech tagging, gazetteer lookup adn named entity recognition.
CONTACT
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Fabio Ciravegna, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK email: F.Ciravegna@dcs.shef.ac.uk, www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio/ |
Last updated: June 21, 2004
created and maintained by José Iria