WEB SEMANTICS AND PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS

The new Semantic Web technologies can also be applied for teaching purposes. They allow for the processing of the information content as opposed to the simple visualization of the documents and can therefore be usefully applied to the analysis of philosophical texts. The conceptualization of the relations between terms can substantially help in achieving a critical understanding of the text. Pundit, a newly developed annotation tool, is endowed with suitable functionalities to produce semantically explicit and structured data and to provide computational support for the desired teaching requirements.