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Project Presentation
The
Euforbia project aims to demonstrate the possibility of using an unbiased
and semantic-rich approach for executing a really accurate (rating
and) filtering of Internet documents. From
a technical point of view, the gist of the proposal consists in the
combination of two already established techniques. The first (NKRL-like
tools) will be used for “annotating” the documents, i.e., for associating
with them an in-depth, formalised and neutral description ("annotation")
of the "semantic content" of these documents. The
second (Milan model for filtrating access) generalises and makes more
flexible the approaches based on the PICS standard by organising the
important notions of the domain into a hierarchy of concepts instead
as a set of simple keywords. If-then
rules based on the annotations will be used according to two strategies.
In the first, they will be used to calculate the rating categories
and the associated values needed by the Milan model ; in the second,
they will be employed autonomously to filtrate the Internet documents.
A
prototype, running software system implementing the above two-fold
approach will be realised by the consortium during the two years of
the project ; it will be implemented in Java and XML for a full integration
in the Internet framework. The prototype will be developed under the
control of an "EUFORBIA user group", active during the whole
life span (2 years) of the project. The
project has started officially the 2nd january 2001 and will
lasten till the end of december 2002. |
EUFORBIA
Project