SmILE Semantic Information Systems and Language Engineering Group

SALT is about rhetorical annotation of scientific documents. The origin of the acronym is Semantically Annotated LaTeX. However, in the meantime we aim for any kind of document and we kept the name for historic reasons.

SALT represents a framework helping the authors to enrich their scientific publications with rhetoric annotations. The framework is composed by two parts:

• The ontological foundation - is represented by an three-layered ontology having its roots in the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST)
• The annotation mechanism - which relies on the textual environment for which SALT was created, i.e. LaTeX

Using the usual LaTeX commands and a series of new ones (although respecting the usual format), one can easily trasform a normal document in a semantic document. In practice, the annotation process is a priori, interleaved with the authoring process. Thus, after compiling the LaTeX document, the resulted PDF document will contain the annotations embedded during the writing process.

Link: http://salt.semanticauthoring.org/