ABSTRACT

Generating hypertext automatically

Harold Thimbleby

1. Free-form documents, almost entirely written by hand.

   Here the approach is to generate links and navigation aids automatically, and to permit analysis of the document's structure. We make the observation that many author features are equally good as reader features, for example, automatic committment reminders.

2. Formulaic documents, almost entirely written by computer.

   Here the approach is to take (for example) a formal specification of a system and generate NL hypertext documents automatically.

• the Royal Society of Arts Web pages, which were generated from a database, and their analysis in Mathematica
• hypertext manuals generated from logic specifications of the Airbus A320 braking subsystem.

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