KP-LAB Knowledge Practices Laboratory -- Specifications for the Knowledge Matchmaker (V.2.0), the Knowledge Synthesizer (V.1.0) and the Analytical and Knowledge Mining Services (V.1.0)

deliverablesThis deliverable presents specifications of three components responsible for advanced manipulation with the knowledge stored in the KP-Lab Semantic Web Knowledge Middleware (SWKM). It starts with motivating scenarios defined within various Working Knots (WKs), extracting relevant functional requirements and mapping them on the high-level requirements, of particular driving objectives and user tasks (described in deliverable [D2.4]). The first component is Knowledge Matchmaker (V2.0), which utilizes various text mining, information extraction, and heuristic methods for advanced access to and manipulation with shared knowledge artefacts according to the explicit meaning of artefacts expressed by their textual content, as well as metadata, including semantic tagging. This second version presents a set of completely new services supporting miscellaneous functionalities such as support for semantic tagging process, search for similar artefacts, information extraction capabilities, as well as recommendation services. Next two components are completely new. The Knowledge Synthesizer (V1.0) can be used to combine information found in multiple sources; this feature is necessary to allow automated merging of the conceptualizations modeled in independently edited conceptualizations. The Analytical and Knowledge Mining Services (V1.0) provide means for analyzing participation and activities within past or running knowledge creation processes, as well as for support of knowledge evolution analysis (e.g. via identification of critical patterns in selected knowledge creation processes)