11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the knowledge base comprises at least one term graph.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the knowledge base comprises at least one term graph. 12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the automatic determining step further comprises the steps of: determining a node in the at least one term graph that corresponds to the user-proposed annotation; determining at least one node in the at least one term graph that corresponds to the at least one allowed annotation; and computing a distance between the nodes.