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 Because the ultimate purpose of the Semantic Web
is to help users better locate, organize, and process
content, we believe that it should be grounded in the
information access method humans are most comfortable
with—natural language. However, the Resource
Description Framework (RDF), the foundation
of the Semantic Web, was designed to be easily
processed by computers, not humans. To render
RDF more friendly to humans, we propose to augment
it with natural language annotations, or metadata
written in everyday language. We argue that
natural language annotations, parsed into computerreadable
representations, are not only intuitive and
effective, but can also accelerate the pace with which
the Semantic Web is being adopted. We believe that
our technology can facilitate a happy marriage between
natural language technology and the Semantic
Web vision. 
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