Research > Information Processing and Internet
The activities of the Department are focused on "Communication and Information Technologies", and more particularly on the treatment of information on the Internet. The issues at stake are multiple and complex.
Three main axes are being developed :
Information, Creation, Organization, Classification and Retrieval (COCRI). The COCRI project consists in implementing and testing a cooperative architecture for information retrieval systems. The field of application is the WWW and in this is different from conventional data retrieval research because of its unprecedented heterogeneity and size. In order to classify documents by themes, we assumed we possessed meta-information concerning the documents, of the type of meta-information that can be inserted in HTML pages with a META flag. Information Evaluation and Validation
In our new "Information Society", the development of the Internet exposes individuals to abuses and risks of many kinds. Our objective is to study different automatic and manual reliability assessment mechanisms, as well as means to pool the results and return them to users in the most effective way (validation and certification service for data and use of grammatical inference to improve web sites ). Information, Interaction, Internet
This topic addresses browser assistance and the use of information on the Internet. One important aspect of its present activity concerns the development and the introduction of open tools destined for collaborative work using open and innovative technologies such as Java and XML which underlie several research and development projects (COSI, CESIFS and SCALE ).
The SCALE project (Internet-based intelligent tool to support Collaborative Argumentation-based Learning in secondary Schools) aims at designing and implementing a computer tool to develop students ability to argue and thus to acquire knowledge more easily through argumentation.