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    A Rhetorical Relations-Based Framework for Tailored Multimedia Document Summarization
    (CERIST, 2024-05) Maredj, Azze-eddine; Sadallah, Madjid
    In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital content, the task of summarizing multimedia documents, which encompass textual, visual, and auditory elements, presents intricate challenges. These challenges include extracting pertinent information from diverse formats, maintaining the structural integrity and semantic coherence of the original content, and generating concise yet informative summaries. This paper introduces a novel framework for multimedia document summarization that capitalizes on the inherent structure of the document to craft coherent and succinct summaries. Central to this framework is the incorporation of a rhetorical structure for structural analysis, augmented by a graph-based representation to facilitate the extraction of pivotal information. Weighting algorithms are employed to assign significance values to document units, thereby enabling effective ranking and selection of relevant content. Furthermore, the framework is designed to accommodate user preferences and time constraints, ensuring the production of personalized and contextually relevant summaries. The summarization process is elaborately delineated, encompassing document specification, graph construction, unit weighting, and summary extraction, supported by illustrative examples and algorithmic elucidation. This proposed framework represents a significant advancement in automatic summarization, with broad potential applications across multimedia document processing, promising transformative impacts in the field.
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    Leveraging Learners' Activity Logs for Course Reading Analytics Using Session-Based Indicators
    (Inderscience, 2019) Sadallah, Madjid; Encelle, Benoît; Maredj, Azze-Eddine; Prié, Yannick
    A challenge that course authors face when reviewing their contents is to detect how to improve their courses in order to meet the expectations of their learners. In this paper, we propose an analytical approach that exploits learners' logs of reading to provide authors with insightful data about the consumption of their courses. We first model reading activity using the concept of reading-session and propose a new and efficient session identification. We then elaborate a list of indicators computed using learners' reading sessions that allow to represent their behaviour and to infer their needs. We evaluate our proposals with course authors and learners using logs from a major e-learning platform. Interesting results were found. This demonstrates the effectiveness of the approach in identifying aspects and parts of a course that may prevent it from being easily read and understood, and for guiding the authors through the analysis and review tasks.
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    Towards reading session-based indicators in educational reading analytics
    (Springer, 2015-09) Sadallah, Madjid; Encelle, Benoît; Maredj, Azze-Eddine; Prié, Yannick
    It is a challenging task to identify eLearning courses parts that have to be revised to best suit learners' requirements. Reading being one of the most salient learning activities, one way of doing so is to study how learners consume courses. We intend to support course authors (e.g. teachers) during courses revision by providing them with reading indicators. We use the concept of reading session to denote a learner's active reading period, and we provide several associated reading indicators. In our server-side approach, reading sessions and indicators are calculated using web server logs. We evaluate the relevance of our proposals using logs from a major French eLearning platform. Results are promising: calculated reading sessions are theoretically more precise than other best applicable approaches, and course authors consider suggested indicators to be appropriate to courses revision. Using reading sessions and associated indicators could facilitate authors' work of course reengineering.
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    Towards Reading Session-based indicators in Educational Reading
    (CERIST, 2015-06) Sadallah, Madjid; Encelle, Benoît; Maredj, Azze-Eddine; Prié, Yannick
    It is a challenging task to identify eLearning courses parts that have to be revised to best suit learners’ requirements. Reading being one of the most salient learning activities, one way of doing so is to study how learners consume courses. We intend to support course authors (e.g. teachers) during courses revision by providing them with reading indicators. We use the concept of reading session to denote a learner’s active reading period, and we provide several associated reading indicators. In our server-side approach, reading sessions and indicators are calculated using web server logs. We evaluate the relevance of our proposals using logs from a major French eLearning platform. Results are promising: calculated reading sessions are theoretically more precise than other best applicable approaches, and course authors consider suggested indicators to be appropriate to courses revision. Using reading sessions and associated indicators could facilitate authors’ work of course reengineering.
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    Component-based Hypervideo Model: high-level operational specification of hypervideos
    (CERIST, 2011-06) Sadallah, Madjid; Aubert, Olivier; Prié, Yannick
    Hypervideo offers enhanced video-centric experiences with attractive and powerful features. Usually defined from a hypermedia perspective, the lack for a dedicated specification prevents hypervideo domain and concepts from being broadly investigated. This article proposes a formal hyper¬video model beyond conventional and very general ones. Followingtheprinciples of component-based modeling and annotation-driven content abstracting, CHM – the proposed Component-based Hypervideo Model - is a high level rep-resentation of hypervideos that intends to expose a gen¬eral, easy to use, comprehensive, expressive, intuitive and dedicated hypervideo data model. Considered as a video-¬centric interactive document, the CHM hypervideo presen¬tation and interaction features are emphasized throughhigh level document operational specification. Our annotation¬-driven approach promotes a clear separation of data from video content and document visualizations. The model serves as a basis for a Web-oriented implementation that provides a declarative syntax and accompanying tools for hypervideo documents design in a simple yet powerful and Web standards¬ compliant manner.
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    A spatial model for editing multimedia documents
    (CERIST, 2010-09) Tonkin, Nourredine; Maredj, Azze-Eddine; Sadallah, Madjid
    In the multimedia documents authoring systems the management of spatial and temporal inter-objects relations is the most delicate task. Spatial relations management refers to the appropriate means to express relations between the document objects and guarantee their consistency. Usually it is represented by spatial model which performances depend on its expressivity degree, on its positioning precision and on the ability to express a desired overlap. One of the most important factors that affect performances is the distance associated to the relations. To enhance the expressivity and precision degrees and to allow the specification of desired overlap, we introduce, in this paper, the flexible distance concept.
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    A Framework for Usage-based Document Reengineering
    (ACM New York, NY, USA, 2013-09) Sadallah, Madjid; Encelle, Benoît; Maredj, Azze-Eddine; Prié, Yannick
    This ongoing work investigates usage-based document reengineering as a means to support authors in modifying their documents. Document usages (i.e. usage feedbacks) cover readers' explicit annotations and their reading traces. We first describe a conceptual framework with various levels of assistance for document reengineering: indications on reading, problem detection, reconception suggestions and automatic reconception propositions, taking our example in e-learning document management. We then present a technical framework for usage-based document reengineering and its associated models for documents, annotations and traces representation.
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    Modèles et Outils documentaries pour les hypervidéos sur le web
    (CERIST, 2012) Sadallah, Madjid; Maredj, Azze-Eddine; Aubert, Olivier; Prié, Yannick
    Avec l'émergence de nouvelles formes de présentation et de représentation des documents audiovisuels, l'hypervidéo - une technologie attractive axée sur l'hypermédia à forte composante vidéo - introduit de nouvelles formes de diffusion de documents audiovisuels à structures complexes. Son objectif est de permettre des expériences utilisateurs inouïes avec des paradigmes de présentation nouveaux et des alternatives d'interactions encore plus élaborées. Généralement considérées via des modèles hypermédias, les concepts et les représentations associés aux hypervidéos restent encore trop généraux pour couvrir toutes leurs caractéristiques, les empêchant d'être mieux étudiées et plus répandues. Le besoin d'un fondement théorique spécifique aux hypervidéos a motivé la proposition du modèle CHM - Component-based Hypervideo Model -, élaboré suivant les principes de la modélisation base de composants et la description à base d'annotations. Cette nouvelle base théorique sert comme fondement pour une implémentation des hypervidéos ayant pour cible la vidéo sur le Web, présentée comme preuve des principes avancés et ayant en perspective de proposer une meilleure prise en charge et une exploitation optimale de la vidéo sur le Web. ---- Defined as a specialization of hypermedia focusing on interactive video, hypervideo is an attractive technology that promises non-conventional and powerful features. It aims to bring more powerful capabilities for video-centric documents and to offer novel user experiences with more elaborated practices and advanced interaction alternatives. Usually considered from a conventional hypermedia perspective, the underlying concepts and representations are too general to qualify hypervideos, preventing this kind of documents from being broadly investigated. The need for theoretical foundations for hypervideos motivates the present work. With the aim to provide a formal data model that considers hypervideo beyond the very general and conventional hypermedia ones, CHM - Component-based Hypervideo Model - is an attempt to theorize hypervidéos using a component-based modeling and an annotation-driven document description. The proposed model serves as a basis for a Web-oriented implementation used as a proof of principles and a means to provide a basis for more elaborated practices of online video implementation since the features of hypervideo are grafted to wider video-based Web documents in a simple yet powerful and Web standards-compliant manner
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    Extension of the Wahl-Rothermel temporal model for the multimedia documents
    (2007-04-12) Maredj, Azze-Eddine; Alimazighi, Zaia; Sadallah, Madjid
    Multimedia presentation defines composition of different media having inherent or assigned temporal behavior: text, images, animations, audio and video. Temporal composition is the most important feature of multimedia presentations because it defines the overall scheduling of temporal events. In this paper, our goal is to propose an extension of Whal and Rothermel temporal model to increase its degree of expressiveness. For that, a new delay definition is proposed.
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    A flexible distance for the spatial placement in a multimedia document
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ), 2008-04-07) Maredj, Azze-Eddine; Tonkin, Nourredine; Sadallah, Madjid; Alimazighi, Zaia
    In the multimedia documents authoring systems the management of spatial and temporal inter-objects relations is the most delicate task. Spatial relations management refers to the appropriate means to express relations between the document objects and guarantee their consistency. Usually it is represented by spatial model which performances depend on its expressivity degree, on its positioning precision and on the ability to express a desired overlap. One of the most important factor that affects performnaces is the distance associated to the relations. To enhance the expressivity and precision degrees and to allow the specification of desired overlap, we introduce, in this paper, the flexible distance concept.