Internship
Deriving structural information from digitized books
Jean-Luc Meunier
- Jean-Luc.Meunier@xrce.xerox.com
The topic of this internship consists in offering a service for deriving structural information from digitized books in order to build a hyperlinked table of contents that could then be used to navigate inside the books.
In order to provide this service, two approaches will be considered
- an unsupervised (i.e. automatic) service that will rely on combining multiple methods, some of which being in-house pre-existing and published methods;
- an interactive service, where the user will supervise the combination of the above automatic methods thanks to a carefully designed tool;
The objective of the internship is to build the service and to test it by participating to the INEX Book Structure international competition in summer 2010.
This internship involves both research and engineering activities, with an experiment on a large available dataset.
The Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) is a young, dynamic research organization, which aims at creating innovative document technologies to support growth in Xerox content and document management services across the different Xerox businesses
XRCE is both a multicultural and multidisciplinary organization set in Grenoble, France. Our domains of research stretch from the social sciences to computing. We have renowned expertise in natural language applications, work practice studies, image-based document processing, distributed applications and knowledge management agents. The diversity of culture and disciplines at XRCE makes it an interesting and stimulating environment to work in, leading to often unexpected discoveries!
XRCE is part of the Xerox Innovation group made up of 800 researchers and engineers in four world-renowned research and technology centres. Xerox is an equal opportunity employer.
The Grenoble site is set in a park in the heart of the French Alps in a stunning location only a few kilometers from the city centre. The city of Grenoble has a large scientific community made up of national research institutes (CNRS, Universities, INRIA) and private industries. Stimulated also by the presence of a large student community, Grenoble has become a resolutely modern city, with a rich heritage and a vibrant cultural scene. It is a lively and cosmopolitan place, offering a host of leisure opportunities. Winter sports resorts just half an hour from campus and three natural parks at the city limits make running, skiing, trekking, climbing and paragliding easily available.
Grenoble is close to both the Swiss and Italian borders.