Hypertext Writing Profiles and Visualisation

University students increasingly use hypertextto write their assignments. To employ hypertexteffectively, more information about thehypertext authoring process is needed. Thereare features of hypertext which are notreflected in traditional theories ofcomposition, especially the possibility tostructure information visually. Our studyindicates that graphical overview maps whichcan be edited are a rather attractive featureof hypertext authoring systems. Nevertheless,not all students profit from such features.Students employ different writing styles whenthey create hypertext documents. The majorityof students experiments with hypertext's newfeatures but others are still influenced by themodel of the book.     

Issues in Hypertext Interchange

An important area of hypertext research focuses on the establishment of reference models and standards. In addition to defining the essential elements of hypertext systems, these standards can be elaborated as data structures and used as an intermediate format for hypertext interchange. The resulting interchange format is then used by a set of program modules which perform hypertext interchange between existing hypertext systems. This paper discusses the major issues in static and dynamic interchange of hypertexts. Definitions, methodology and goals of hypertext interchange are given. Static issues discussed include: ideal mappings, node size, node contents, multiple destinations, overlapping anchors, link directionality, partial hypertexts, system attributes and other attributes. Dynamic issues discussed include: system support, access to remote systems, identical remapping and partial hypertexts. Practical solutions to these issues are given where possible. A case study discusses the results of a research project that used the Dexter Hypertext Reference Model as the intermediate format in the transfer of hypertexts from Intermedia to KMS. An overview of the Dexter model is given and the Dexter interchange format, an implementation of the data modelling aspects of the Dexter model, is described. Issues and difficulties with hypertext interchange that arose in this implementation are presented and discussed. A list of open research issues concludes the paper.     

The Rhetoric of Hypertext

This study adopts as a fundamental orientation the view that hypertext may eventually bring about a paradigm shift in text delivery and in human information processing. However, paradigm shifts do not occur overnight; they are evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Because of the considerable commitment of Western knowledge and culture to the written word and to linear text, it seems likely that successful hypertext systems will — at least in the beginning — electronically emulate many of the strategies a sophisticated reader uses in dealing with hard copy. This article describes a project which modeled the functionality an intelligent reader would bring to paper text (specifically, a maintenance manual), and designed and implemented a hypertext version of the document using Apple Computer's HyperCard.

Since few fully specified hypertext systems have been deployed, the research described here was undertaken to build a platform on which notions about the efficacy of non-linear text processing for a specific application could be tried out. This article describes a Stackware version of a portion of an aircraft maintenance manual and considers issues of (1) data storage models, (2) user interface, and (3) information retrieval methods for online text. These elements — among others — are the essence of the new rhetoric for non-sequential text.     

Tailoring Automatically Generated Hypertext

This paper describes an approach for tailoring the content and structure of automatically generated hypertext. The implemented system HYLITE is based on applied Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques, a re-usable user modelling component (VIEWGEN), and a flexible architecture with module feedback. The user modelling component is used by the language generation modules to adapt the hypertext content and links to user beliefs and preferences and to the previous interaction. Unlike previous adaptive NLG systems, which have their own, application-specific user models, HYLITE has re-used a generic agent modelling framework (VIEWGEN) instead. Apart from avoiding the development costs of a new model, this also enabled a more extendable system architecture. Another distinct feature of our approach is making NLG techniques adaptable by the user, i.e., providing users with control over the user model and the hypertext adaptivity.     

Hypertext in cognate-language learning

Abstract  This paper reports on the results of and experiences gained from a project to investigate and evaluate the use of hypertext as a tool for developing CALL systems. The type of CALL system implemented was to some extent influenced by the desire to experiment with hypertext. Its novel features seemed to indicate that it would be ideal for the development of a cognate-language learning package i.e. software which would aid the development of reading ability in a foreign language based on the knowledge of a related language. Accordingly, a package was developed which provides the 'same' prose passages in French and Spanish (with English normally operating as the first language). A reader is able to browse in one of these languages, trying to understand the meaning by either interpolating between cognate words or by moving between the identical passages of two (or even three) of the languages.     

Collaborative Writing of Text and Hypertext

A good writer understands his audience. Collaborative writing allows authors to act as readers and thus to create text which an audience is more likely to appreciate. This paper describes four sets of experiences in collaborative writing. In one of the experiences secondary school students who were unable to produce a sophisticated document independently were able to produce a quality document through a group process. Given the correct combination of authors and goals, a simple computer editor can be very helpful. Hypertext differs from text in that links among chunks of text are made explicit. It could be argued that collaborative writing would work particularly well with hypertext because the links among the writers' ideas could be more easily explored. In experiences with graduate students at two universities, this hypothesis has not been supported. The students did not understand how these links should be created and thus could not collaboratively write hypertext.     

基于SVM的网络文本信息自动分类

介绍基于SVM的网络文本信息自动分类算法,该算法在训练阶段将一个大型数据集分成许多不相交的子集,按批次对各个训练子集中的样本进行训练而得到多个分类器,利用误差纠错输出编码优化分类器,从而减少较深层次训练需要学习的文档.     

HTML – Hypertext Markup Language

Ohne Zusammenfassung Eingegangen am 04.08.1996, in überarbeiteter Form am 06.05.1997     

Hypertext Access and the New Oxford English Dictionary

While hypertext access to the New Oxford English Dictionary would seem to be potentially beneficial, the conversion of such a text to a hypertext document and the generation of semantic links may not be feasible. Rather than attempting either the conversion of the text or the designation and storage of specific hypertext links, a prototype frontend called READER has been developed that provides hypertext access to the Dictionary. The emphasis in this work has been to provide the user with the browsing approach typical of hypertext rather than the more traditional query-oriented approach to accessing full-texts. The prototype is based on a dynamic hypertext model which facilitates browsing through the dynamic instantiation of implicit links existing in the text of the Dictionary.     

Writing multiplicity: Hypertext and feminist textual politics

This article explores how hypertext might be used in the composition classroom to explore the gendered nature of text production. By exploring the theoretical connection between hypertext and feminist theory, this article suggests that writing multivocal hypertexts can help make students more aware of the multiplicity of their subject positions and the ways in which academic contexts try to silence those positions. Through a critical reading of a feminist, multivocal hypertext written by one of the authors, this article highlights both the successes and limitations of this theoretical premise. Although the article points to the ways both the academic context in which such hypertexts are situated and the nature of hypertextuality itself ultimately interfere with the writer's attempt to enact all aspects of a feminist intervention into textual politics, it concludes by recommending such a practice for the classroom. Despite its limitations, the process of creating such a text enacts many goals of a feminist classroom: finding a place for marginalized voices and interrogating the gendered power relations of academic discourse.     

Authoring and Searching in Dynamically Growing Hypertext Databases

In this paper we show how an application in the domain of Office Information Systems can be modelled so that a dynamically growing database of hypertext documents is created and automatically extended, as well as easily searched. We propose a method for analyzing office applications which relies on a model based on statecharts to record the flow of documents within the system. A prototype implementation is described of a hypertext system to support the creation, storage and retrieval of documents associated to formal face to face meetings. Special features to be incorporated into hypertext systems aimed at supporting the storage and retrieval of office documents are also identified.     

Hypertext functionality: A theoretical framework

This article presents a theoretical framework useful for understanding the functionality of Hypertext systems in terms of their ability to satisfy cognitive requirements for expressing concepts and their relationships. This theoretical framework is derived from a re‐interpretation of Guilford's theory of the Structure of Intellect.     

Hypertext: A new information technology

The hypertext technology is described, including a survey of hypertext systems and their artificial-intelligence tools. The design principles of the first Ukrainian hypertext system HYPSY are discussed.Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 5, pp. 116–135, September–October, 1992.