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  <Title>Generating and Visualizing a Soccer Knowledge Base</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> SmartWeb1 is a multi-modal dialog system, which derives answers from unstructured resources such as the Web, from automatically acquired knowledge bases and from web services.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In this paper we describe the current status of the SmartWeb Ontology-Based Annotation (SOBA) system. SOBA automatically populates a knowledge base by information extraction from soccer match reports as available on the web.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The extracted information is defined with respect to SWIntO, the underlying SmartWeb Integrated Ontology (Oberle et al., in preparation) in order to be smoothly integrated into the system.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The ability to extract information and describe it ontologically is a basic requirement for more complex processing tasks such as reasoning and discourse analysis (for related work on ontology-based information extraction see e.g. Maedche et al., 2002; Lopez and Motta, 2004; Muller et al.,</Paragraph>
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