A Structural Computing Approach to the Production of
Multimedia Document Series
Nanard, M., Nanard, J., Chauché, J., and King, P.R
New Review of Multimedia and Hypermedia, Vol. 12, n°2, 2006, 165-19.,
ABSTRACT
The production of multimedia documents of a specified genre from indexed multimedia sources is an important research
area. The area adds value to digital library resources and enables the delivery of specific multimedia documents.
In this article, we explain how the principles of structural computing may be applied to the production of series
of documents complying with some specific genre. The research is inspired by Markov transforms as used in natural
language processing. We introduce TTL (Tree Transformation Language), a declarative XML-based formalism for the
specification of structural transformation rules. We show, with the aid of a number of examples, how this formalism
may be used to specify the narration, rhetoric, and argument structures which respect generic style constraints, and
we show how documents are generated. The interpretation of TTL is itself specified as a set of transformation rules,
which, together with the SYGMART engine, constitute the SYG-XML environment for producing target documents.
Keywords
Human Computer Interaction; Hypermedia; Internet Languages; Internet & Multimedia - Computing & IT:
Multimedia; Internet & Multimedia: Multimedia; New Media; Web Usability; World Wide Web;
World Wide Web & Internet;
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