From Linguistic Annotations to Knowledge Objects

An important step in the development of systems that require deeper knowledge (e.g., systems that might ultimately infer person-person relationships, event-event relationships, sentiment, and other important information about the world) is the mapping between linguistic annotations that have been developed by researchers and the knowledge objects that might be derived from those linguistic annotations. The difference between linguistic annotations and knowledge objects is that the former are tags on raw data, whereas the latter are representational entities that are derived beyond the actual surface tokens in the raw data.