AKTiveMedia: Cross-media Document Annotation and Enrichment

Chakravarthy, Mr Ajay and Ciravegna, Prof Fabio and Lanfranchi, Ms Vitakeska (2006) AKTiveMedia: Cross-media Document Annotation and Enrichment. In Proceedings Fifteenth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006).

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Nowadays a large and growing amount of information is stored in various multimedia formats, such as images, video, audio. Much research has been undertaken into the efficient and effective storage, access, usage and retrieval of textual information. Semantic annotation and enrichment has been proposed as a way to make textual and graphical information available in documents for effective and efficient use. For example, several activities focus on text annotation as a way to enrich a textual document, making it machine-readable and also accessible to people [1, 2, 4, 5]; other projects focus more on annotation of images e.g. [3]. However, we believe that the separation of text and images is artificial and there is a strong need for enabling true cross-media annotations that span the division of text and images. A constantly increasing number of information sources, like websites, often contain both text and images that are interrelated: usually the text in the document contains references to the image or describes it. It is therefore crucial to develop strategies and interfaces for cross-media knowledge creation and sharing that will make these references explicit, increasing the value of the document itself.

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