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TRELLIS: An Interactive Tool for Capturing Information Analysis and Decision Making

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Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Ontologies and the Semantic Web (EKAW 2002)

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TRELLIS provides an interactive environment that allows users to add their observations, opinions, and conclusions as they analyze information by making semantic annotations about on-line documents. TRELLIS includes a vocabulary and markup language for semantic annotations of decisions and tradeoffs, and allows users to extend this vocabulary with domain specific terms or constructs that are useful to their particular task. To date, we have used TRELLIS with a variety of scenarios to annotate tradeoffs and decisions (e.g., military planning), organize materials (e.g., search results), analyze disagreements and controversies on a topic (e.g., intelligence analysis), and handle incomplete and conflicting information (e.g., genealogy research).

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  1. USC Information Sciences Institute, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA, 90292

    Yolanda Gil & Varan Ratnakar

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  1. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, s/n, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Asunción Gómez-Pérez

  2. Intelligent Software Components, S.A. (iSOCO), Francisca Delgado, 11 - 2∘, 28108, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain

    V. Richard Benjamins

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Gil, Y., Ratnakar, V. (2002). TRELLIS: An Interactive Tool for Capturing Information Analysis and Decision Making. In: Gómez-Pérez, A., Benjamins, V.R. (eds) Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Ontologies and the Semantic Web. EKAW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2473. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45810-7_6

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