{"id":1509,"date":"2026-07-16T17:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/?page_id=1509"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:02:54","slug":"integrating-human-machine-document-annotation-for-sensemaking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/integrating-human-machine-document-annotation-for-sensemaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating Human &amp; Machine Document Annotation for Sensemaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stadium.open.ac.uk\/stadia\/stadia\/speakerimages\/2829.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Simon Buckingham Shum\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prof Simon Buckingham Shum<br><small>This event took place on Thursday 11 November 2010 at 14:30<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simon Buckingham Shum, \u00c3\u0081gnes S\u00e1ndor, Anna De Liddo &amp; Michelle Bachler<br><br>We report on progress made during the collaboration between KMi&#8217;s Hypermedia Discourse Group and \u00c3\u0081gnes S\u00c3\u00a1ndor (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Parsing &amp; Semantics Group). This is the outcome of her 6 week OLnet Project Expert Fellowship at the OU, funded by the Hewlett Foundation, to develop Collective Intelligence for the Open Educational Resources (OER) community.<br><br>Our research investigates the overlaps and complementarities between the outputs from human analysts making sense of 120 OER project reports, using KMi&#8217;s Cohere semantic annotation and knowledge mapping tool, and machine annotation of the corpus by the Xerox Incremental Parser (XIP). XIP&#8217;s output is imported into Cohere to explore ways to visualize the combined human+machine output, and we present preliminary results from interviews with some of the analysts to elicit their views on XIP&#8217;s annotations.<br><br>PDF verson of the slides available here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stadium.open.ac.uk\/stadia\/preview.php?s=29&amp;whichevent=1567\">Watch the webcast replay &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/past-seminars\/\">View all past events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-css wp-custom-css-ac9b5317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"213\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"Maven of the Month\" class=\"wp-image-537\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/maven-of-the-month\/\">Maven of the Month<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are also inviting top experts in AI and Knowledge Technologies to discuss major socio-technological topics with an audience that comprises both members of the Knowledge Media Institute, as well as the wider staff at The Open University. 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