Modeling and Advanced Exploitation of eChronicle Information

In this paper, we describe NKRL (Narrative Knowledge Representation Language), a conceptual modeling formalism for taking into account the semantic characteristics of this important component of eChronicle information represented by the ‘narrative’ documents. In these documents, the main part of the information consists in the description of the ‘events’ that relate the real or intended behavior of some ‘actors’. Narrative documents of an industrial and economic interest correspond to news stories, corporate documents, normative and legal texts, intelligence messages, medical records, etc. NKRL employs several representational principles (concepts under the form of frames, templates defining general classes of elementary events, second order structures etc.) and some high-level inference tools.