Fabio Rinaldi

CONCERTO, An Environment for the 'Intelligent' Indexing, Querying and Retrieval of Digital Documents

We give a general overview of the European Esprit project CONCERTO. The central idea of CONCERTO is to represent the ‘meaning’ of digital documents making use of their associated ‘conceptual annotations’: a conceptual annotation is intended to supply a computer-usable description of the main information elements of the whole document or of a part of it. We evoke first the general context (‘metadata’) of CONCERTO; we describe then its architecture, and we give a concrete example, of conceptual annotation.

CONCERTO, conceptual indexing, querying and retrieval of digital documents

We give a general overview of the European Esprit project, CONCERTO (CONCEptual indexing, querying and ReTrieval Of digital documents, P29159, URL: http://concerto.pira.co.uk/). The central idea of CONCERTO is to represent the meaning of digital documents, making use of their associated conceptual annotations; a conceptual annotation is intended to supply a computer-usable description of the main information elements of the whole document or of a part of it. We describe the general architecture of the CONCERTO Knowledge Engineering Software Environment (KESE).