A case study of automatic authoring: From a textbook to a hyper-textbook

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-30

  Crestani, Fabio ^a   Melucci, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic authoring; Hyper Textbook; Hyperbook; Hypertext; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ONLINE SEARCHING; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

AUTOMATIC AUTHORING; WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032143225     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(97)00043-8     Document Type: Article

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