[Corpora-List] New Book: "Narrative Information"

[Gian Piero ZARRI]

NEW BOOK: Apologies for multiple postings.

Gian Piero ZARRI
Representation and Management of Narrative Information, Theoretical 
Principles and Implementation
Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
2009, X, 302 p. 55 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-84800-077-3
Springer-Verlag London
http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/book/978-1-84800-077-3


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, representing 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 and managing, in a standardised way, the 'meaning' of complex 
multimedia narrative documents. NKRL is also a fully implemented environment 
that exists in two versions: a relational database-supported version and a 
file-oriented one. It constitutes probably the most complete and realistic 
effort realised so far to deal with the huge industrial potentialities of 
the narrative domain.
    
Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book not only supplies an 
exhaustive description of NKRL and of the associated knowledge 
representation principles, it also constitutes a source of reference for 
practitioners, researchers and graduates in domains that range over 
narrative theories, linguistics and computational linguistics, artificial 
intelligence, knowledge bases, information retrieval, and languages for the 
ontologies and the semantic web.

Contents:

- Narratology and NKRL.
- The notion of 'event' in an NKRL context.
- Knowledge representation and NKRL.
- Architecture of NKRL, the four 'components'.
- Second order structures.
- The semantic and ontological contents.
- Ontology of 'concepts' and ontology of 'events'.
- The query and inference procedures.
- Temporal information and indexing.
- High-level inference procedures.
- Technological enhancements and theoretical enhancements.
- Appendix A: NKRL software.
- Appendix B: Plural entities in NKRL.


Professional address of the author from February 1st, 2009:

Gian Piero Zarri
University Paris-Est - LISSI Laboratory
120-122, rue Paul Armangot
94400 Vitry-sur-Seine
France
Phone: 33-1-41807383
Fax: 33-1-41807369
Email: zarri at noos.fr, gian-piero.zarri at univ-paris12.fr


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