Novalist : Content Reduction for Cross-media Browsing

The Novalist news browser described in this paper was built in order to experiment with the integration of a number of tools for the disclosure of multimedia news content via a flexible and multifaceted browser. The tools available for integration cover a wide range functionalities, including clustering, classification, extraction of headlines and proper names, indexing and summarization. They each contribute to the presentation of content in a reduced form to support efficient navigation and selection. The paper describes some of them detail and outlines the demonstration system to which they