Utilizing Existing Semantic Knowledge Bases for Creating Annotations on Mobile Devices

This paper discusses how existing semantic knowledge bases can be utilized in creating annotations on mobile devices. The difficulties in this topic arise from the fact that different semantic knowledge bases offer different access methods and in general the access methods are designed for desktop applications instead of mobile applications. To examine these issues we implemented a Java ME application that can send annotated messages to two web applications, Tilkut and Owela, which had been created earlier within the same project at VTT. Our findings highlight the challenges and possibilities that implementing the communication between the semantic knowledge bases and the mobile application offers. We also discuss different ways of easing the annotation process on a mobile device such as retrieving tag suggestions continuously based on user input.