Welcome to CODA

CODA (Computer-Aided Ontology Development) is the process of developing ontologies (and knowledge bases) through computer-assisted mechanisms, based on suggestions, knowledge acquired from unstructured information etc...
We have thus designed a framework for driving the Knowledge Acquisition process starting where typical Information Extraction tools end: from how to properly manage structured information which has been extracted from different, heterogeneous information sources (text, audio, video...), to project these structures towards a target ontology.

CODA is an Architecture, designed as an extension to the UIMA Architecture for Unstructured Information Management, as well as a software framework based on the above design. While UIMA supports the development of knowledge extraction systems, the CODA framework provides facilities for systematically project this knowledge inside a semantic repository

Annotations produced by UIMA Analysis Engines can thus be analyzed, compared with existing data in the semantic repository, matched, and projected according to the domain model of the target ontology. The CODA framework supports these tasks by providing dedicated modules for knowledge processing and by allowing the projection of these structured information over an ontology by means of a dedicated language, PEARL: ProjEction of Annotations Rule Language

Learn more about CODA by starting to read its documentation