From searching to browsing through multimodal documents linking

Relationships that link static documents discussed during meetings to the corresponding speech transcripts can be of various kinds. The most important ones, thematic links, quotations and references are presented in this paper. Thematic links are detected via a thematic alignment process. However, quotations extraction is based on the detection of segments of documents that are quoted in the speech transcript. References, made by speakers to documents, are performed via a matching process between referring expressions detected in the speech transcript, and corresponding documents logical blocks. Finally, a framework that combines these links and an evaluation of the links complementarity are presented.