[topicmapmail] automated generation of topic map

[Bernard Vatant]

Another aspect of "automatization", that Jean could have spoken about, since we have
worked out several examples of that, is the automatic conversion (e.g. through XSLT) of
XML or otherwise structured documents interpreted as "implicit" topic maps. That means the
(XML) structure (DTD, schema) is interpreted in terms of topics, associations,
occurrences -
that interpretation is the only "expert" work - and afterwards the document is parsed and
automatically translated in XTM.

Once the XSLT has been created, it can be used for any XML doc with the same DTD or
schema, and therefore the topic map can be created on the fly as output of an XML editor
using that DTD, without further "human expert" intervention. I'm sure many topic maps in
future applications will be built that way, as a background task in an XML environment,
with "authors" not even aware of it.

Bernard

----- Message d'origine -----
De : "jean delahousse" <jean.delahousse@mondeca.com>
À : "Dan Wu" <danwu@cs.uregina.ca>; <topicmapmail@infoloom.com>
Envoyé : vendredi 8 février 2002 18:22
Objet : RE: [topicmapmail] automated generation of topic map


> Dear Dan,
> We have experienced for a client a solution with automatic feeding of the
> topic map.
>
> The taxonomy for classification of topics have been made by the experts.
>
> The day to day feeding of the topic maps (topics, associations and
> occurences) has been automated. A text mining tools is used to extract the
> topics and associations from Reuters news. In this application the text
> mining tools was trained to capture company names, and various association
> between topics like "acquisition" "selling" "partnership".
>
> The automatisation using text mining will be completed soon with the use of
> the new's metadata (NewsML format).
>
> You can see a prototype of the solution at the following adress :
> http://1.mondeca-publishing.com/i/editortemis/title49.html
>
> sincerely
>
> Jean Delahousse
> Mondeca
> CEO
> 3, Cité Nollez. 75018 Paris
> Phone : 33 1 44 92 35 03
> Mobile : 33 6 16 90 73 95
> Fax : +33 1 44 92 02 59
>
> www.mondeca.com
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : topicmapmail-admin@infoloom.com
> > [mailto:topicmapmail-admin@infoloom.com]De la part de Dan Wu
> > Envoyé : vendredi 8 février 2002 17:11
> > À : topicmapmail@infoloom.com
> > Objet : [topicmapmail] automated generation of topic map
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> > I was thinking that constructing a topic map for
> > a domain is a very time consuming and labour intensive
> > job cauae one, who I assume should be the domain expert,
> >  has to find out
> > all the topics, occurrences and
> > associations. Is there a way already devloped or being discussed
> > that we can automate this process.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
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