STIMULATE Projects at Columbia
Background
STIMULATE is a program led by the National
Science Foundation. Its name is an acronym for "Speech, Text, Image and
Multimedia Advanced Technology Effort". Columbia University has won two
grants under this program.
GRANT 1: An Environment for Illustrated Briefing and
Follow-up Search Over Live Multimedia Information
(Alfred Aho, Shih-Fu
Chang and Kathleen McKeown)
Researchers seek to provide up-to-the-minute briefings on topics of
interest, linking the user into a collection
of related multimedia documents. On the basis of a user profile or
query, the system will sort multimedia
information to match the user's interests, retrieving video, images
and text. The system will automatically
generate a briefing on information extracted from the documents and
determined to be of interest to the user.
Report for 1997 NSF meeting.
GRANT 2: Generating Coherent Summaries of On-Line Documents: Combining
Statistical and Symbolic Techniques
(Kathleen McKeown and Judith Klavans)
This project will allow computers to analyze the text from a set of
related documents across many subject
areas and summarize the documents. Within the summary, similarities
and differences between documents will
be highlighted, indicating what each document is about. The research
will be part of a digital library project
emphasizing aids for reducing information overload.
Report for 1997 NSF meeting.
Project Description.
Related Materials
The NSF
announcement for STIMULATE.