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

fYear

1997

fDate

7-9 May 1997

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

94

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Libraries, 1997. ADL '97. Proceedings., IEEE International Forum on Research and Technology Advances in

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

1092-9959

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8010-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ADL.1997.601203

Filename

601203