Annotation and annotation system for multimedia documents

摘要

A method of annotating a plurality of multimedia documents, each multimedia document comprising at least one section, and each section comprising at least one characteristic, comprises the steps of: manual annotation (11) of at least one document of the plurality of documents by assigning each section of said document at least one annotation class, automatic creation (15) of an annotation model defining relationships between the annotation classes and the characteristics of the sections, said automatic creation being carried out by iterative learning based on the selecting of relevant sections, automatic annotation (23) of an unannotated document of the plurality of multimedia documents by applying the annotation model, charcterised in that the step of automatic creation comprises the sub-steps of selection, adjustment and suppression.