PROJECT PLAN

#	Description	Milestone (month ending)
1	Application requirements with emphasis on understanding types/classification of semantic associations, and types of knowledge discovery which is possible using semantic metadata	Initial study (12); revised study (24)
2	Testbed for using evaluating techniques (items 4 through 7) with open source data, involving metadata extraction, knowledge base creation using InfoQuilt tools for ontology creation	Testbed for 1-st round evaluation (12); testbed for 2-nd round evaluation (24)
3	Create scenarios in accordance to requirements (1) and set up the evaluation using our testbed (2)	Initial evaluation (18); final evaluation (36)
4	Research 2: Ontology-based Metadata Extraction · Develop an automatic metadata extractor and document annotator based on ontological document classification · Develop a lazy annotation mechanism where a document will be anchored to the target ontology, and the full meta-data will be dynamically materialized at the time it is needed	Model development (12); initial implementation and evaluation (18); extensions and final evaluation (36)
5	Research 4: Knowledge Discovery · Develop a hybrid method incorporating traditional data mining techniques with semantic-based knowledge discovery and association identification methods (i.e., use knowledge base to drive knowledge discovery operations on the available meta-data) · Develop knowledge discovery and data mining techniques on an interconnected set of concepts and relations (i.e., ontologies) and their instances in the knowledge base	Model development (12); implementation and initial evaluation (18); extensions final evaluation (30)

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