Semantically Grounded Briefings
Bob Balzer, Neil Goldman, Marcelo Tallis
Teknowledge
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The Killer Ap
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

Most Significant Accomplishments
Semantic Markup in COTS Document Authoring Tools
Markup as ByProduct of graphic content creation
Visually Annotated Ontology (controls instance rendering)
Publication of briefings in DAML
Incorporation of external DAML content into briefing
Semantically Indexed Images
Image Indexing Web Crawler
HTML Images
Briefing Images
Legacy Image Markup
Semantically Described (graphic) Image Search

Planned 2002 Activity
Integrate DAML into MS Word
Produce DAML markup as byproduct of document creation
Integrate existing DAML tools into MS Word
AeroDAML (Lockheed-Martin)
Ontomat (Univ. of Karlsruhe)