Intelligent Assembly of Structured Documents

Helena Ahonen, Barbara Heikkinen, Oskari Heinonen, Jani Jaakkola, Pekka Kilpeläinen, Greger Lindén, and Heikki Mannila: Intelligent Assembly of Structured Documents. Report C-1996-40, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, June 1996. 12 pages. <http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/TR/C-1996/40>

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Abstract

An intelligent document contains information about its structure, its contents and its environment. This information supports intelligent document assembly, i.e., the effective reuse of existing documentation to produce new documents adapted to specific needs. We suggest different kinds of information that may be associated with an intelligent document, and used in the assembly process. We also study the assembly process itself, and the transformations needed to form the assembled document from fragments of documents. We report on three case studies, where intelligent document assembly methods are being prototyped on commercially used document material.

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Categories and Subject Descriptors:
I.7.2 [Text processing]: Document Preparation
J.7 [Computers in other systems]: Publishing

General Terms: Design

Additional Key Words and Phrases: document assembly, structured documents, SGML