Representation and Management of Narrative Information

A big amount of important, economically relevant information, is buried within the huge mass of multimedia documents that correspond to some form of 'narrative' description.

"A big amount of important, 'economically relevant' information, is buried within the huge mass of multimedia documents that correspond to some form of 'narrative' description.Due to the ubiquity of these 'narrative' resources, being able to represent in a general, accurate, and effective way their semantic content - i.e., their key 'meaning' - is then both conceptually relevant and economically important. In this book, we present the main properties of NKRL ('Narrative Knowledge Representation Language'), a language expressly designed for representing, in a standardised way, the 'meaning' of complex multimedia narrative documents. NKRL is a fully implemented language/environment. The software exists in two versions, an ORACLE-supported version and a file-oriented one.Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, this exhaustive description of NKRL and of the associated knowledge representation principles will be an invaluable source of reference for practitioners, researchers, and graduates."

Preface. - Basic Principles, Narrative Information in an NKRL Context. - The Knowledge Representation Strategy. - The Semantic and Ontological Contents, 'Concepts' and 'Templates'. - The Query and Inference Procedures. - Conclusion, Technological Enhancements and Theoretical Enhancements. - Appendix A: NKRL Software. - Appendix B: Plural Entities in NKRL. - References. - Index.