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Text retrieval and enrichment for vital information
Start date:1997-01-01
End date:1999-06-30
Project Acronym:TREVI
Project status:Completed
Coordinator
| Organization name:Itaca Srl | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Francesco Adolfo |
Via Tiburtina 605 00159 Roma ITALIA Region:LAZIO Roma |
| Tel:+39-6-43560011 | |
| Fax:+39-6-43560031 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL: | Organization Type:Other |
Description
Objective:
The project aims at offering a solution to the problem of " information overflow", i.e. the difficulty experienced both by large companies and SME's in extracting useful information from large amounts of data coming from the numerous electronic textual information services available at local or global level (Internet, proprietary networks, subscription services, World Wide Web, and more).
Achievements:
General information:
The key result of TREVI will be a set of software tools (the TREVI Toolkit) representing a substantial improvement in the management of distributed textual information sources. The TREVI Toolkit will not rely on simple text-based search tools; it will rather combine concept-based search and active data mining techniques to enrich online input test streams by providing indexing, abstraction, smart correlation with data and knowledge sources, compilation into electronic publication formats and subscription capability on the results through communication services (for example, HTML documents servers on WWW).
From the technical point of view, the success of TREVI will be measured by the consortium's ability to create a prototype system combining state-of-the-art linguistic tools with new advances in electronic publishing and information gathering and filtering, which will be easily turned into a set of marketable products featuring a substantial, world-wide customer base. The TREVI prototype will provide exploitation possibilities both as a full package (the TREVI Toolkit) industrialised and marketed by ITACA, and as individual software tools to be marketed by the developing partners.
From the users' standpoint, success will be checked against actual improvements in the partners' business activities. These will be achieved by building TREVI-based demonstrator systems providing :
- steady, effective access to all relevant business information related to actual news events, such as import/export, travel, telesales, finance, transportation and logistics;
- more efficient management of substantial electronic document traffic and correlation of text items with each other (for example, memos with company procedures).
The work will be approached starting from a market understanding based on actual user requirements. The project is driven by a consortium of software development enterprises and users needing to heavily exploit information technology to retain their competitiveness in the evolving market. Users partners are all involved in business areas, ranging from medicine to the information service industry, which deserve fast and efficient management of large amounts of textual information. They will provide demonstrators based on their own business cases, which will permit to test the effectiveness of the basic concepts and to show the flexibility of the TREVI toolkit architecture in real-world, critical scenarios.
The exploitation of the TREVI results will be mainly targeted at the business-to-business environment. Adaptation and customisation of the TREVI toolkit will allow TREVI customers to deliver several services either to SME's or individuals via public networks, or in "private" environments, i.e. integrated with internal communication systems within a large corporation. TREVI results will be particularly relevant for two categories of customers :
- Information providers, information brokers, services providers, distributing and delivering services to individual end-users (subscribers) and SME's.
- Large corporations, who can use TREVI as an enriched retrieval and dissemination product for knowledge which, at least partially, will be internal and confidential within that organisation. They will have to use external service providers eventually, but will be capable of implementing and supporting their own system and their own use of TREVI.
Consumers for TREVI service may therefore include multinational corporations, bank, governments, media, telecommunications companies and new publishers (television, radio, press).
Project Details
Start date:1997-01-01
End date:1999-06-30
Duration:30 months
Project Reference:FP4_23311
Project cost:4700000 EURO
Project Funding:2700000 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP4-ESPRIT 4
Programme type:Fourth Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Distributed Systems and Database Technology
Contract type:Marie Curie actions-Grants for Excellent Teams
URL:
Subject index:Information Processing, Information Systems, Telecommunications, Innovation, Technology Transfer
Results for this Project
| Reducing information overload (TREVI) | 13/08/1999 |
Other participants
| Organization name:Fraunhofer Gesellschaft | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Ulrich |
FHG-IIPSI Postfach 1316 Schloss Birlinghoven 53754 Munich DEUTSCHLAND Region:NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN KÖLN Rhein-Sieg-Kreis |
| Tel:+49-61-51869855 | |
| Fax:+49-61-51869818 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de | Organization Type:Research |
| Organization name:Federation for Enterprise Knowledge Development | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Victor |
Parque Tecnologico De Zamudio 48170 Zamudio ESPAÑA Region:NORESTE PAIS VASCO Vizcaya |
| Tel:+34-44209530 | |
| Fax:+34-44209462 | |
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| URL: | Organization Type:Other |
| Organization name:Denkart N.V. | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Eric |
Molenweg 107 2830 Willebroek BELGIQUE-BELGIË Region:VLAAMS GEWEST ANTWERPEN Mechelen |
| Tel:+32-38660022 | |
| Fax:+32-38660301 | |
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| URL: | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:Economisch Instituut Tilburg | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Olga |
Warandelaan 2 5037 AB Tilburg NEDERLAND Region:ZUID-NEDERLAND NOORD-BRABANT Midden-Noord-Brabant |
| Tel:+31-134662432 | |
| Fax:+31-134663069 | |
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| URL: | Organization Type:Research |
| Organization name:Lyras Shipping Ltd | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Dimitris |
Ely Place 10 ECIN 6RY London UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) GREATER LONDON |
| Tel:+44-171-2960296 | |
| Fax:+44-171-4540444 | |
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| URL: | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:Sarenet, S.A. | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Roberto |
Parque Tecnologico De Zamudio 103 48170 Zamudio ESPAÑA Region:NORESTE PAIS VASCO Vizcaya |
| Tel:+34-44209470 | |
| Fax:+34-44209465 | |
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| URL: | Organization Type:Other |
| Organization name:Reuters Limited | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Renata |
Fleet Street 85 EC4P 4AJ London UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) GREATER LONDON |
| Tel:+44-171-2501122 | |
| Fax:+44-171-5427007 | |
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| URL: | Organization Type:Other |
| Organization name:Vub/Vrije Universiteit Van Brussel | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Robert |
Pleinlaan 2 1050 Bruxelles BELGIQUE-BELGIË Region:REG.BRUXELLES-CAP./BRUSSELS HFDST. GEW. |
| Tel:+32-26-293478 | |
| Fax:+32-26-293525 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL: | Organization Type:Education |
Record control number:35827
