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OKKAM toolbar for IE

Tuesday, 01 December 2009 09:30 Daniele Cordioli
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Environment

Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer; abbreviated to MSIE or, more commonly, IE), is a graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft. The IE OKKAM toolbar is a plug-in to OKKAM-enable the Internet Explorer browser.
 

 

What it does

This paragraph focuses on the different steps of the OKKAMization process. In particular, we will analyze how OKKAM moves and processes data, in order to better understand the OKKAM Empowered tool functionality.
The following picture describes the three main steps of this workflow:

 


 

  1. The user starts writing an email
  2. The Blogger OKKAM empowered tool takes the email’s body and sends it to the OKKAM System.


    ATTENTION: In order to perform the annotation process, the content of your email is sent to the OKKAM annotation pipeline! However, your email IS NOT STORED by OKKAM.
     

    To recognize the named entities inside the email it is fundamental to analyze the email using the OKKAM technology. This technology is very complex, based on a semantic approach and is impossible to use on the client side, so using a server side approach is needed. Before starting, the process requires you to view and accept the OKKAM privacy statement. Otherwise you can of course abort the process and no data is sent to OKKAM.

  3. OKKAM  starts to analyze the plain text coming from the email. The first step is the Entities extraction. It is clear that every tool analyzes different kinds of information. Depending on the situation, the gathering of data (ACQUISITION) can be carried out in various ways. After acquisition, the first processing step is the parsing and analysis of a text for entities extraction. In particular, the system contains three different approaches:
    1. Keyword based 

    2. Shallow linguistics

    3. Semantic Analysis

The main module is the semantic analysis based on COGITO® Discover semantic capabilities, which provides Semantic Analysis for texts in English and Italian. A query is created for each identified named entity (e.g. people, location). It contains the main features useful to better identify the potential entity in a unique way. The query is sent to the OKKAM Engine. The Entity Matching stage generates an OKKAM ID for entities, where this is required. This process is based on the following steps:
  1. Query processing
    The OKKAM Engine analyzes the query, searches the repository and returns, if present, the correct OKKAM ID for the named entity.

  2. The correct OKKAM ID identification
    The OKKAM ID resulting from matching is a value ready to be included as a new field in the document.


The use of this module is the basis for building a Web of Entities, where information about the same entity is consolidated in such a way that aggregation, integration and mash up become easier and faster.
The result you have is your email will be tagged with the OKKAMids.

 

Features

This tool allows to find and highlight entities inside your text in many different ways.
There are some different functions:


  • Full Okkam
    This will display three little widgets summarizing all the available information about entities inside your text. The one entitled 'Extraction' shows the name of the recognized entities and their semantic type, the 'Okkamize' one reports the information returned by OKKAM for each entity, and the 'Enrichment' one shows the text enriched with OKKAM semantic information.

  • Search
    Links to Okkam webpage where to search for entities.

  • Add entity
    Links to Okkam webpage where to add an entity. It requires registration. http://api.okkam.org/EnsWebToolKit

  • Help
    If you need additional help, here you will find user's manual.


Technology

This Rich Internet Application is created using:

  • Javascript
    JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language used to enable programmatic access to objects within both the client application and other applications. It is primarily used in the form of client-side JavaScript, implemented as an integrated component of the web browser, allowing the development of enhanced user interfaces and dynamic websites. JavaScript is a dialect of the ECMAScript standard and is characterized as a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based language with first-class functions. JavaScript was influenced by many languages and was designed to look like Java, but to be easier for non-programmers to work with.
  • jQuery
    jQuery is a lightweight cross-browser JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig. Used by over 27% of the 10,000 most visited websites, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. jQuery is free, open source software, dual-licensed under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License, Version 2.[2] jQuery's syntax is designed to make it easier to navigate a document, select DOM elements, create animations, handle events, and develop Ajax applications. jQuery also provides capabilities for developers to create plugins on top of the JavaScript library. Providing this option, developers are able to create abstractions for low-level interaction and animation, advanced effects and high-level, theme-able widgets. This contributes to the creation of powerful and dynamic web pages.
  • IE7Pro
    IE7Pro is an add-on to Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 beta version that aims to enhance the feature set provided by the browser. IE7Pro adds features such as tab enhancement, ad blocker, flash blocker, mouse gestures, inline search, privacy enhancements, online bookmark service, Greasemonkey-like user script support, and plug-in support. IE7Pro is also known as IEPro, and is available in several languages – this is made possible by user translations.

 

 

Installation

This tool is available for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

 

Microsoft Internet Explorer

To install an Okkam Empowered Tool for Internet Explorer follow these steps:

  1. Make sure you have installed IEPro addon for Internet Explorer. If not you can find it here:
    http://www.brothersoft.com/download-ie7pro-54469.html (or find the right link from the official site http://www.ie7pro.com ).

  2. Download the plug-in from the following link
    http://community.okkam.org/index.php/Downloads/

  3. Unzip the zip file, keeping the javascript and css file in the same folder.

  4. Copy the script file in the IEPRO ‘userscripts’ folder which probably looks like
    c:\program files\IEPRO\userscripts.

  5. Just to see if everything is ok, open IE, double click on the IEPRO icon at the right bottom corner of the browser window.
    You should see something like this:



    In the user script submenu the checkbox labelled “Enable user script” and the one with the name of the script must be checked.

 

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