The following is a list of publications about MnM. They are a good introduction to the theory and rational behind it.

• "MnM: Ontology Driven Semi-Automatic and Automatic Support for Semantic Markup",
  Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Mattia Lanzoni, Arthur Stutt and Fabio Ciravegna
  The 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Management (EKAW 2002), ed Gomez-Perez, A., Springer Verlag, 2002.
  

• "MnM: Ontology Driven Tool for Semantic Markup",
  Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Mattia Lanzoni, Arthur Stutt and Fabio Ciravegna
  European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2002). In proceedings of the Workshop Semantic Authoring, Annotation & Knowledge Markup (SAAKM 2002). Lyon France, July 22-23, 2002.
  

• "Knowledge Extraction by using an Ontology-based Annotation Tool",
  Maria Vargas-Vera, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum and Mattia Lanzoni
  In proceedings of the Workshop Knowledge Markup & Semantic Annotation, K-CAP'01, Victoria Canada, October 2001.