Semantically Grounded Briefings Bob Balzer, Neil Goldman, Marcelo Tallis Teknowledge

Military spends a huge amount of time creating briefings –gathering, collating, formatting data –translating into powerpoint slides –customizing for different commanders Need for a Personalized Briefing Creation Agent –Knows about military domain (communicative) –Knows how to access military sources (capable) –Gathers information off-line for user (autonomous) –Tailorable to users needs and changing resources (adaptive) Need for a search tool for information embedded in briefings –IntelLink minimally keyword searchable Dynamic Data integrated into Briefing The Killer Ap Briefing Creation Agent Intel Link Search Tool DAML Marked Briefings Better Access to Materials Semantically Grounded Briefing –PowerPoint Infrastructure for Requesting data Accepting data - propagating it into model Rendering data - coupling briefing data to model –e.g. shape color determined by attribute value Exporting Briefing in DAML Importing DAML into Briefing Graphically Defining/Editing Ontology DIFFing changes between versions PowerPoint Infrastructure DAML Marked Briefings DAML Marked Data Our Vision

DEMO Whats Hot Semantic Markup in COTS Document Authoring Tools –Markup as ByProduct of graphic content creation Visually Annotated Ontology –Incorporation of external content –Automatically updated briefings Semantically Indexed Images –Image Indexing Web Crawler HTML Images Briefing Images –Legacy Image Markup –Semantically Described Image Search

Challenges Internal –Automated Rendering of Imported Content Layout Annotations in Visually Annotated Ontology –Supporting Objects in Multiple (non-intersecting) Classes Not supported by COM generators (i.e. standard OO languages) External –Coupling with external DAML query service –Identifying Producer Value-Added Markups in MS Word Follow Briefing Associate Markup-As-Byproduct paradigm Prototype –Semantic AutoComplete –Semantic Reference Disambiguation –Paste object values into text Follow On –Semantic Diagrams to establish context (for markup and consumer)