Supporting Collective Intelligence through a Recursive Annotation Tool

The nature of the cooperative setting in which the phe-nomenon of Collective Intelligence is considered influences the mechanisms by which Collective Intelligence emerges from that setting and how this process can be supported by a computer-based technology. This paper focuses on tight communities and specifically on the collaborative discourses that their members articulate therein around documental ar-tifacts. The paper presents a collaborative annotation tool endowed with discourse oriented functionalities whose char-acteristics emerged from our investigations in the agricul-tural and healthcare domains. In addition, the tool supports those activities that are aimed at building a representative and digested summary of the opinions gathered collabora-tively in a community, and those aimed at collaboratively building a modified version of the original document ac-cording to those opinions and standpoints. The tool and an example of its customization according to the requirements collected from the agricultural domain are presented. 1