Modelling multimedia structured documents: a retrieval oriented approach

The authors describe the modelling of multimedia structured documents according to the potential retrieval methods. They consider that the works already done on such documents do not focus on this point enough. So, their model is based on views that reflect the potential ways of "seeing" multimedia documents. The semantic content of a document is one way of seeing documents. So, another problem is the way to determine this semantic content by using semantic channels between composing and composed documents. They present an application of their work in the RIME medical context dealing with texts and still images.