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Intelligent Information Presentation Corresponding to User Request Based on Collaboration Between Text and 2D Charts

Chiaki Watanabe and Ichiro Kobayashi

Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Advanced Sciences, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Ootsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan

Received: March 29, 2007

Accepted: September 11, 2007

Keywords: intelligent information provision, multimodal text, collaborative summarization, 2D chart

Journal ref: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.12, No.1 pp. 10-15, 2008

Abstract

We discuss intelligent information provision involving different modal information collaboratively presented, with an example of news articles about stock prices summarized based on 2D chart representation on stock prices. We use the MuST corpus, an annotated corpus for easily extracting trends in information, e.g., statistical values, etc., as the news article corpus to be summarized. We associate the MuST corpus with numerical data on the stock prices, and propose a way to provide people with a summarized text about news articles on prices corresponding to 2D chart representation.

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