The briefing associate: a role for COTS applications in the semantic web
Marcelo Tallis, Neil M. Goldman, Robert M. Balzer · 2001
. This paper identifies a set of semantic markup capabilities designed to benefit the author rather than the consumer of manually composed documents. By doing so it addresses one of the major challenges facing the semantic web vision -- the generation of ontologically encoded descriptions of the content of manually produced documents. It also presents a novel approach to eliminating the currently large and tedious overhead required to produce such markup by augmenting the COTS tools that users already use to produce these documents so that the semantic markup is derived as a byproduct of composing the document. These ideas are currently being implemented in a tool called the Briefing Associate that augments Microsoft's PowerPoint to support the authoring of semantically grounded briefings. 1.