Automatic synthesis of semantic information from multimedia documents

Abstract

A system for automatically synthesizing semantic information units from raw material extracted from non-textual documents supports error detection and correction, allows mapping from pieces of raw information extracted from the media into semantic information entities in the application domain and provides a complete procedure for building up hierarchical information structures for non-textual media. It adopts a formal specification to describe the synthesis process of constructing semantic media structures for all different media in multimedia documentation. The system includes an error corrector for receiving raw AIU's and for providing corrected raw AIU's. A primitive identifier receives the corrected raw AIU's and provides primitives. A basic synthesizer receives the primitives and provides basic objects. An abstract synthesizer receives the basic objects and provides abstract objects which are in condition for the hyperlinking process.

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