Knowledge Acquisition and Processing System for Romanian Historical Documents

This paper presents ArhiNet, an integrated system for generating, processing and querying semantically enhanced archival eContent related to the middle age history of Transylvania, targeting cultural heritage preservation. The main workflows of the system aim to perform semantically enhanced eContent generation and knowledge acquisition, as well as knowledge processing and retrieval. Through knowledge acquisition, the relevant information is extracted from historical documents and structured as a domain ontology. In knowledge processing, the extracted ontological information is further processed and enhanced both through automatic reasoning and with the help of knowledge engineers. Finally, through knowledge retrieval, relevant documents and information are provided in response to natural language guided user queries.