e-Business software modules cater to users
Applications where users may need to find their way through numerous documents in order to find a particular piece of information include libraries, court records, and legal, medical or scientific publishing. For e-business applications the answer is to classify and organise documents according to a familiar tree-like structure, or ‘taxonomy’. The first step is to extract information from the documents that can be used to organise them. The project has developed a text analysis module that annotates the document and generates a representation of it by analysing the vocabulary. A categorisation module then uses the representations of the documents’ contents, along with other annotations and metadata classify documents according to a tree-shaped hierarchy. The software module uses an efficient process to make the correct decision at each point where a branch splits from the logical tree structure. A third module then, reusing much of the same software code, profiles users in order to enable personalised services and offerings in anticipation of users’ needs. Suitable applications exist in reference libraries, full-text search of news and publications, and access to public documents from administrative or heritage organisations.
