Support System based on Annotations of Documents and Video Scenes for Reading Technical Documents

Abstract

Reading as many technical documents as possible is important to improve our research. When we read these documents, we can understand their contents more easily by referring to related resources such as images, audio clips, and videos. Videos contain a variety of helpful information, and facilitate our understanding of technical documents. We propose a method to define video scenes and document elements, and to annotate them with additional information such as relationships. Based on these annotations and relationships, we developed a support system that uses videos and helps readers understand technical documents. We performed some experiments to confirm whether the system was usable.