Patent ID: 7818329

Claim:
A method for enriching an input narrative with multimedia content, said method comprising the steps of: receiving said input narrative, wherein said input narrative comprises a description of an event in the form of text; selectively segmenting said input narrative, to form queries using text from the different text segments of said input narrative; using said queries to retrieve multimedia artifacts from one or more multimedia repositories, wherein each retrieved multimedia artifact is associated with one of said queries; and wherein each of said queries is processed to retrieve artifacts by means of a procedure selected from a group of procedures that include at least content-based, text-based, speech-based and model-based retrieval procedures; selecting a subset of said retrieved multimedia artifacts, wherein said retrieved artifacts of said subset include one or more nontextual artifacts that each does not include any of said segments of said input narrative; and combining said input narrative with each of said retrieved multimedia artifacts of said subset in an arrangement specified by a user, in order to provide an enriched narrative.