With the amount of textual data available on the web, new methodologies of knowledge extraction domain are provided. Some original methods allow the users to combine different types of data in order to extract relevant information. In this context, this paper draws the main objectives of the ANIMITEX project which combines spatial and textual data. The data preprocessing step is detailed.

This demo describes the summarization of textual material about locations in the context of a geo-spatial information display system. When the amount of associated textual data is large, it is organized and summarized before display. A hierarchical summarization framework, conditioned on the small space available for display, has been fully implemented. Snapshots of the system, with narrative d...

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We consider the question of how information from the textual context of citations in scientific papers could improve indexing of the cited papers. We first present examples which show that the context should in principle provide better and new

Academic writing is not just about presenting a set of ideas, but through the act of writing, the authors position themselves as individuals having particular identities which mostly reflect the dominant sociocultural values and practices of the discourse communities in which they are living and performing. The present study, using a mixed method approach, attempted to explore the evidences of ...

Representing the semantics of words is a long-standing problem for the natural language processing community. Most methods compute word semantics given their textual context in large corpora. More recently, researchers attempted to integrate perceptual and visual features. Most of these works consider the visual appearance of objects to enhance word representations but they ignore the visual en...

Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) are widely used for effective collaboration among users. A CWE includes various tools and methodologies to support analysis of coordinating activities. Users within a CWE widely utilize textual means of collaboration and communication. An effective analysis of this textual collaboration can help in improving overall quality of collaborating activities an...

In this paper, we propose an integrated information management system in which ontology-based knowledge integration and XML-based text/data retrieval are combined using tag information and ontology management tools. The main purpose of the system is to implement a query answering system for XML-based documents in the domain of molecular biology. The aim is to provide efficient access to heterog...

We investigate in this paper the use of XML structure in multimedia retrieval, particularly in context-based image retrieval. We propose two methods to represent multimedia objects: the first one is based on an implicit use of textual and structural context of multimedia objects, whereas the second one is based on an explicit use of both sources. Experimental evaluation is carried out using the...