Conceptual Linking: Ontology-based Open Hypermedia

This paper describes the attempts of the COHSE project to define and deploy a Conceptual Open Hypermedia Service. Consisting of • an ontological reasoning service which is used to represent a sophisticated conceptual model of document terms and their relationships; • a Web-based open hypermedia link service that can offer a range of different link-providing facilities in a scalable and non-intrusive fashion; and integrated to form a conceptual hypermedia system to enable documents to be linked via metadata describing their contents and hence to improve the consistency and breadth of linking of WWW documents at retrieval time (as readers browse the documents) and authoring time (as authors create the documents)

Conceptual Linking: Ontology-based Open Hypermedia

This paper describes the attempts of the COHSE project to define and deploy a Conceptual Open Hypermedia Service. Consisting of • an ontological reasoning service which is used to represent a sophisticated conceptual model of document terms and their relationships; • a Web-based open hypermedia link service that can offer a range of different link-providing facilities in a scalable and non-intrusive fashion; and integrated to form a conceptual hypermedia system to enable documents to be linked via metadata describing their contents and hence to improve the consistency and breadth of linking of WWW documents at retrieval time (as readers browse the documents) and authoring time (as authors create the documents)

Spanish automatic text enrichment

Unlike text on paper, hypertext enables the linking of pieces of text with other texts and multimedia resources, which not only improves the waywe read but also lays the foundation for new information systems. Specifically, the proliferation of collaborative sites, blogs, online databases, encyclopedias and many other services on the World Wide Web provides an invaluable source of up-to-date information which can be used to aid reading comprehension. As a result, an approach to the automatic extraction, merging and integration of online information is proposed for the purpose of “enriching” texts. This unprecedented text enrichment process allows users to transform ordinary plain texts into self-explanatory hypertexts containing contextual information and resources selected automatically from the Web. Application of such an enrichment process could help students in their scholarly reading, provide users with related multimedia resources and avoid multiple searches for concepts and entities mentioned in a text, among other purposesVI Workshop Ingeniería de Software (WIS)Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Navigation design in informative hipertexts

Discussion of the elements and components of a navigation system in hypertext. Sets out the logical bases of links and hypertext navigation, presents and argument for the basic architecture of a hypertext information system, and advocates a model designed for hypertexts for information purposes

Mixing representation levels: The hybrid approach to automatic text generation

Natural language generation systems (NLG) map non-linguistic representations into strings of words through a number of steps using intermediate representations of various levels of abstraction. Template based systems, by contrast, tend to use only one representation level, i.e. fixed strings, which are combined, possibly in a sophisticated way, to generate the final text. In some circumstances, it may be profitable to combine NLG and template based techniques. The issue of combining generation techniques can be seen in more abstract terms as the issue of mixing levels of representation of different degrees of linguistic abstraction. This paper aims at defining a reference architecture for systems using mixed representations. We argue that mixed representations can be used without abandoning a linguistically grounded approach to language generation.Comment: 6 page

Legislating in hypertext

Modern research on lawmaking in electronic format confirms the thesis that legal texts made available by means of various types of legal information systems form a hypertext structure. Furthermore, research on hypertexts confirms that the use of this technology undermines the structuralist theories of text that underlie traditional methods of legislation and interpretation of law. In this article, an attempt is made to show how a hypertext can be used to provide legal information and how it can affect traditional legal practices connected with drafting and interpreting legal texts. In particular, the considerations will focus on the analysis of the use of hypertext for the processing of legal documents (including digital representation of legal texts) and the possibilities that arise in this area in connection with the development of the so-called adaptive hypertexts. On this ground the question is analyzed whether and, if so, to what extent and in what way an adaptive hypertext can be used for the presentation and analysis of legal texts.Współczesne badania w zakresie stanowienia prawa w formie elektronicznej potwierdzają tezę, że teksty prawne udostępniane za pomocą różnego rodzaju systemów informacji prawnej tworzą strukturę hipertekstu. Z kolei badania nad hipertekstami wykazują, że zastosowanie tej technologii podważa strukturalistyczne teorie tekstu, które leżą u podstaw tradycyjnych zasad techniki legislacyjnej oraz dyrektyw wykładni prawa. W związku z tym w artykule omówiono sposób, w jaki hipertekst można wykorzystać dodostarczenia informacji prawnych. W szczególności poniższe rozważania koncentrują się na analizie zastosowania hipertekstu do przetwarzania dokumentów prawnych (w tym cyfrowej reprezentacji tekstów prawnych) oraz możliwościach, które pojawiają się w tym obszarze w związku z opracowaniem tzw. hipertekstów adaptacyjnych. Na tej podstawie podjęta została próba odpowiedzi na pytanie, w jakim zakresie i w jaki sposób można zastosować hipertekst adaptacyjny do prezentacji i analizy tekstów prawnych oraz czy zastosowanie tego rozwiązania może wpłynąć na tradycyjne praktyki prawne związane z opracowywaniemi interpretacją tekstów prawnych

The Conference Review Process

This presentation is for students on the 3rd year ECS Multimedia course where students run their own conference, and submit and review papers. In this presentation we explain the academic review process, look at the structure of a review, and give some examples of positive and negative reviews

The evaluation of educational service integration in integrated virtual courses

The effectiveness of an integrated virtual course is determined by factors such as the navigability of the system. We argue that in a virtual course, which offers different educational services for different learning activities, the integration of services is a good indicator for the effectiveness of a virtual course infrastructure. We develop a set of metrics to measure the degree of integration of a virtual course. We combine structural metrics and an analysis of the student usage of the system in order to measure integration

Towards a Framework for Developing Mobile Agents for Managing Distributed Information Resources

Distributed information management tools allow users to author, disseminate, discover and manage information within large-scale networked environments, such as the Internet. Agent technology provides the flexibility and scalability necessary to develop such distributed information management applications. We present a layered organisation that is shared by the specific applications that we build. Within this organisation we describe an architecture where mobile agents can move across distributed environments, integrate with local resources and other mobile agents, and communicate their results back to the user