1. XGTagger, a generic interface dealing with XML contents. September 19 th, 2005 Xavier Tannier, Jean-Jacques Girardot, Mihaela Mathieu Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne

2. Initial XML document Final XML document Input (text only) Output (text only) System S (black box) Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell 1. Gone with the wind. Margaret Mitchell 2. System S (POS tagger) 3. Gone VPP with IN the DT wind NN. Margaret NN Mitchell NN 4. XGTagger

3. Initial XML document Final XML document Input (text only) Output (text only) System S (black box) Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell Gone VPP with IN the DT wind NN. Margaret NN Mitchell NN 5. Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell 5. XGTagger 4. 1.

4. - "hard" tags : break the linearity of the text. ex: titles, chapters, paragraphs - "soft" tags : identify significant parts of text, but remain "transparent" when reading it. ex: bold, italics, underlined - "jump" tags : particular elements, as margin notes, citations, glosses. text A text B text A text B text C Tag classification [Colazzo et al, 2001]

5. United States elections are admisnistered at the state and local level Soft tags, reading contexts and XGTagger United States elections are admisnistered at the state and local level

6. The 2004 United States See an article p.163 about the United States of America. elections caused less controversy than in 2000. Jump tags, reading contexts and XGTagger The 2004 United States elections caused less controversy than in 2000. See an article p.163 about the United States of America. ………………………….. ………………………………………… ………………………. …………………………………………… ………………………

7. Advances in Information Retrieval 1. Advances in Information Retrieval 2. System S (parser) 3. Advances NNS in IN Information///Retrieval NP 4. Advances in Information Retrieval 5. Example : Phrases

8. I had a conversation with my brother 1. I had a conversation with my brother 2. System S (translator) 3. I had a conversation/entretien/Gespräch with my Brother/frère/Bruder 4. I had a conversation with my brother 5. Example : Translation