Multimedia documents like memos, policy statements, reports, minutes, news stories, normative and legal texts, eLearning and Cultural Heritage material (text, image, video, sound…), etc. In these ‘narratives’, the main part of the information content consists in the description of ‘events’ that relate the real or intended behaviour of some ‘actors’ (characters, personages, etc.): these try to attain a specific result, experience particular situations, manipulate some (concrete or abstract) materials, send or receive messages, buy, sell, deliver etc.
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Conceptual Tools for Dealing with ‘Narrative' Terrorism Information
Gian Piero Zarri (University Paris-Est, France)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-836-9.ch019
Abstract
In this paper, we evoke first the ubiquity and the importance of the so-called ‘non-fictional narrative’ information, with a particular emphasis on the terrorism- and crime-related data. We show that the usual knowledge representation and ‘ontological’ techniques have difficulties in finding complete solutions for representing and using this type of information. We supply then some details about NKRL, a representation and inferencing environment especially created for an ‘intelligent’ exploitation of narrative information. This description will be integrated with concrete examples to illustrate the use of this conceptual tool in a terrorism context.