PENG - Personalized News Content
Programming
Funding:
European Commission
under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), Information Society
Technologies (IST) priority.
Project leader: prof. Gabriella
Pasi, Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche ITC-CNR/Università
degli studi di Milano-Bicocca
Period:
2 years: 1 September 2004 - 30 August 2006
Project
Web Site:
http://www.peng-project.org/
Motivation
The huge production of multimedia information available on the World
Wide Web stimulates the development of fast and effective systems that
support an easy access to the information items relevant to specific
users’ needs. The definition and development of systems that
help users
in accessing multimedia information relevant to their needs is a very
important research topic. The activity of these systems is based on the
solution of a decision-making problem: how to identify the information
items that correspond to the users’ information
preferences?
Description
The PENG project focuses on the
problem of defining a news content
composition and programming environment to the aim of offering to
professional and general users an interactive and personalised tool for
multimedia news gathering and delivery. The system which is
proposed within the PENG project aims in fact at
collecting news from specialised archives in a personalised way, making
the user able to deepen a selected topic by searching for additional
information on the specialised archives, the web and personal archives,
and editing the final news through a multi-document summarisation
approach.
My
contribution
Although I wasn't formally
involved in this project, I helped the research team in the
definition of new ideas and strategies for the development of the
Graphical User Interface. One of these ideas is depicted in the
following picture (click on it to enlarge):
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