Ontology-Based Multimedia Presentation Generation

Multimedia data are illusory entities for the machines. Their contents include interpretable data as well as binary representations. Understanding and accessing the content-driven information for multimedia objects allow us to design an efficient multimedia querying and retrieval system. In this paper, we propose a framework to represent the multimedia information and object roles in order to generate automatic multimedia presentations. The proposed architecture attempts to represent the semantic information and the relations amongst the multimedia objects in a disclosure domain. Thus, the system is domain dependent. The represented data associates with the presentation mechanisms to create an integrated presentation generation system. A multi-layer design defines the various levels of abstraction for the proposed framework

Semantic support for medical image search and retrieval

The need for annotating digital image data is recognised in a variety of different medical information systems, covering both professional and educational usage of medical imaging. Due to the high recall and low precision attribute of keyword-based search, multimedia information search and retrieval based on textual descriptions is not always an efficient and sufficient solution, particularly for specific applications such as the medical diagnosis information systems. On the other hand, using image processing techniques to provide search on the content specific data for multimedia information is not a trivial task. In this paper we use the semantic web technologies in medical image search and retrieval process for a medical imaging information system. We employ an ontology-based knowledge representation and semantic annotation for medical image data. The proposed system defines data representation structures which are given well-defined meanings. The meanings are machine-accessible contents which could be interpreted by the software agents to find and retrieve the information based on the standard vocabularies and meaningful relationships between the data items

Knowledge Acquisition for Semantic Search Systems

Semantic search extends the scope of conventional information search and retrieval paradigms from documentoriented and to entity and knowledge-centric search and retrieval. By attempting to provide direct and intuitive answers such systems alleviate information overload problem and reduce information seekers’ cognitive overhead. Ontologies and knowledge bases are fundamental cornerstones in semantic search systems based on which sophisticated search mechanisms and efficient search services are designed. Nevertheless, acquisition of quality knowledge from heterogeneous sources on the Web is never a trivial task. Transformation of data in existing databases seems a promising bootstrapping approach, while information providers may refuse to do so because of intellectual property issues. In this article we discuss issues related to knowledge acquisition for semantic search systems. In particular, we discuss ontology learning from unstructured text corpus, which is an automatic knowledge acquisition process using different techniques