New challenges emerged in the past years as the audiovisual landscape significantly transformed with the emergence of Internet-based TV. The decision of what to watch and in what order no longer belongs to the TV station but the user. New solutions must be offered to users in order to facilitate precise and quick access to the desired information contained in the ever increasing amounts of audiovisual content: for example, to identify a specific event, a TV show fragment containing a certain public person or addressing a particular topic, or to browse sequentially across all segments of videos addressing this topic. These new and varied features imply the development of innovative methods for structuring and exploiting the audiovisual conte...