@MISC{Zarri_naturallanguage, author = {Gian Piero Zarri}, title = {Natural Language Indexing of Multimedia Objects in the Context of a WWW Distance Learning Environment}, year = {} }
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Abstract
All the specialists are agreed that the possibility of adding to multimedia objects some sort of "conceptual " annotation describing their information content under a form suitable for computer processing would contribute greatly to solve the problem of their "intelligent " indexing and retrieval. The existing projects in this domain, like Information Manifold, UNTANGLE or MIHMA, propose to build up the conceptual annotation (or "generalised bookmark") making use of very complex conceptualanguages, like some sort of description logics. The major drawback of this approach concerns the difficulty of associating "by hand " a (syntactically very complex) generalised bookmark in the description logics style to WWW objects pertaining to a multimedia universe sufficiently large. To alleviate this