Laboratories

EIFFEL
The Semantic Web and eTourism
Antidot leads this research project, approved and supported by the ANR (French national research agency).

Eiffel is developing an innovative software platform to handle:

• automatic detection, selection, classification and qualification of content distributed on the web;
• analysis of page content in order to extract temporal and geographic information and populate a knowledgebase;
• processing of user requests by integrating the content of the ontology of the territory and the indexed Web content and offering navigation functions in the knowledgebase;
• helping the user to plan a trip or visit based on its resources, via an automatic logic engine that makes suggestions and enforces consistency;
• analyzing usage and user behavior in order to drive personalization of interfaces and suggestions.

Laboratories partnering with Antidot:

Inria - AxIS: a team specialized in the development of methods and tools for computer aided design, analysis and improvement of user-centered information systems.
Website: www.inria.fr/recherche/equipes/axis.fr.html

MoDyCo: the Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus laboratory, jointly run by CNRS and Université de Paris 10, specializes in linguistic analysis taking into account the reality of its usage, whether conversational, discursive or textual.
Website : www.modyco.fr

For more information, visit the Eiffel Project website: www.projet-eiffel.org

CARTEC

Analysis Of the Temporal Evolution Of Corpuses
Antidot leads this research project, approved and supported by the ANR (French national research agency).

CARTEC is an industrial research project with the goal of analyzing the temporal variation of hypermedia document collections that develop in an unmanaged fashion in order to transform them into corpuses, i.e. structured and useful data.
This transformation poses three major problems that have launched three innovative subprojects that, in turn, compose the main project:

1. capturing the information in an unmanaged document collection for which the evolution of each document is unknown and variable;
2. indexing the information, in order to allow research and navigation in the corpus, but also in order to analyze its evolution;
3. storing, encoding and temporal representation of search results.

CARTEC focuses all of its innovation and research on the concrete problem of temporal monitoring and indexing of the web. This application context allows the team to emphasize the industrial and commercial benefits, such as large-scale information monitoring. CARTEC benefits from its association with the INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel), allowing it to test its developments on the concrete case of the INA's web-based archives.

Antidot Laboratory partnership:

LIP6: this is one of the premier computer science laboratories in France. The LIP6 database team, led by Anne Doucet and represented within CARTEC by Stéphane Gançarski, specializes in the management of distributed databases, on problem spaces such as consistency within distributed databases, asynchronous replication and the loss of database freshness, optimization of queries in peer-to-peer systems, management of XML data and Web services.
Website : www.lip6.fr

For more information, visit the Cartec website: : www.projet-cartec.org