eDocuments Intelligent Enrichment from Distributed Knowledge Resources

When reading a text document, knowledge workers have to "manually" look for additional information: they decide on concepts to further explore, access a Web search engine, form a query and compose the search results with the original document. In this paper, we propose a framework aiming at transforming electronic documents from passive pieces of information into dynamic entities that search and retrieve relevant information, becoming active partners in the knowledge worker\´s tasks. For this purpose, trends in natural language processing, semantic knowledge representation and agent-based technologies are combined