ON THE USE OF INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES FOR THE AUTOMATIC CONSTRUCTION OF HYPERTEXT

The first part of the paper briefly introduces what automatic authorin g of a hypertext for information retrieval means. The most difficult p art of the automatic construction of a hypertext is the creation of li nks connecting documents or document fragments that are semantically r elated. Because of this, to many researchers it seemed natural to use IR techniques for this purpose, since IR has always dealt with the con struction of relationships between objects mutually relevant. The seco nd part of the paper presents a survey of some of attempts toward the automatic construction of hypertexts for information retrieval. This p art will identify and compare scope, advantages and limitations of dif ferent approaches. The aim of this survey is to point out the main and most successful current lines of research. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.