Using Converters for Content Analytics Annotations

The IBM Content Analytics Annotation converter lets you annotate data that is being ingested into Watson Explorer Engine with the Watson Explorer Annotation Administration Console.

Annotating ingested data is the process of analyzing unstructured data to add additional <content> metadata elements to the Watson Explorer Engine conversion pipeline.

Important:

The Watson Explorer Annotation Administration Console module has been provided as part of the Watson Explorer foundational components. This module must be installed, enabled, and configured prior to using the IBM Content Analytics Annotation converter.

Table 1.
You can find information about...	...by reading...
...installing the Annotation Administration Console...	...Installing Annotation Administration Console.
...enabling the Annotation Administration Console...	...Starting and stopping Annotation Administration Console.
...configuring the Annotation Administration Console...	...Annotators.

Annotating content using the Annotation Administration Console has the following major configuration steps:

Install, enable, and configure the Annotation Administration Console
Define the location of the Annotation Administration Console server that Watson Explorer Engine will connect to
Decide which annotation should be enabled, and then configure text processing rules to generate annotations when text is analyzed.
Choose the input contents that will be analyzed and annotated.

The Annotation Administration Console provides several annotators that you can use as provided or customize for your enterprise data. For example, you can extend sentiment analysis by adding positive and negative expressions and extend named entity recognition by adding terms that represent persons, locations, and organizations. You can also create a custom annotator by using UIMA technology or IBM Watson Explorer Content Analytics Studio. To find out more about creating custom annotations, see: Creating Custom Annotations with Content Analytics.