Title :
Columbia Digital News System. An environment for briefing and search over multimedia information
Author :
Aho, Alfred ; Chang, Shih-Fu ; McKeown, Kathleen ; Radev, Dragomir ; Smith, John ; Zaman, Kazi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
In this paper we describe an ongoing research project called the Columbia Digital News System. The goal of this project is to develop a suite of effective interoperable tools with which people can find relevant information (text, images, video, and structured documents) from distributed sources and track it over a period of time. Our initial focus is on the development of a system with which researchers, journalists, and students can keep track of current news events in specific areas
Keywords :
distributed databases; information retrieval systems; multimedia systems; visual databases; Columbia Digital News System; current news events; distributed sources; images; interoperable tools; multimedia information; structured documents; text; video; Books; Computer science; Data mining; Feedback; Image databases; Joining processes; Knowledge management; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Pattern matching;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 1997. ADL '97. Proceedings., IEEE International Forum on Research and Technology Advances in
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8010-5
DOI :
10.1109/ADL.1997.601203
