OmniPaper: Modern Approaches for an Intelligent European News Archive.
Markus W. Schranz, Bert Paepen, Manfred Tscheligi · ICWI · 2002
ABSTRACT In the last five years, the Internet, intranets and search engines have brought unmanageable amounts of information to the average user's fingertips. Since this growth will only continue, it is vital that users are supported in converting this universe of information into improved productivity and opportunity instead of being swamped and paralyzed. Failing to address information overload will cost enterprises and individuals money, often in ways that are not easily measured: Costs that result from lowered productivity and from bad business decisions. To really satisfy user needs and restricted budgets, the myriads of information need to be structured and organized in an intelligent and user -oriented way. The OmniPaper project is investigating ways for drastically enhancing access to many different types of distributed information resources. The key objective of OmniPaper is the creati on of a multilingual navigation and linking layer on top of distributed information resources in a self-learning environment, thus providing a sophisticated approach to manage multinational news archives with strong semantic coupling, delivering to the use r more than the sum of the individual service features.