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STORY: An Architecture and Procedure to Extract and Create Stories from Heterogeneous Data Sources
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IS-2004-016 |
Inventors:a |
Dr. Venkatramanan Siva Subrahmanian
Mr. Marat Fayzullin
Dr. Antonio Picariello
Mr. Massimiliano Albanese
Mr. Carmine Cesarano
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There are thousands of applications where we wish to derive a story about a particular event of a person or phenomenon. For example, consider an application where a person is walking through an archaeological site such as Pompeii. Though a casual tourist may be satisfied with the simple title which usually marks exhibits, a person with a deeper interest may be unsatisfied. In the same vein, consider a US military soldier stationed at a checkpoint in Baghdad-he or she may want to know a person's "story" in order to make critical security decisions. As the diversity of the two previous applications shows, what goes into a story depends not only on the basic facts, but also on the specific items of interest to the listener.
Researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park have created a working prototype to extract information about entities (persons, events, places, etc.) from web-based and other data sources, and create stories from them. The system takes into account three important parameters specified by the story creator: priority (of the aspects of a story), continuity (of the story itself) and non-repetition. The proposed story architecture supports the goals of succinctness and exploration. The STORY system allows the delivery of stories both over the Internet and over wireless networks to multiple devices such as Internet terminals, Pocket PCs, and cell phones.
A U.S. patent application is pending.
For licensing information please contact the Office of Technology Commercialization. Phone: 301-405- 3947, ext. 20 E-mail: otc@umd.edu.
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