A CASE-STUDY OF AUTOMATIC AUTHORING - FROM A TEXTBOOK TO A HYPER-TEXTBOOK

This paper presents a case-study of automatic construction of a hypert ext from a large full-text document. The document we used as the input of the automatic authoring process is a well known textbook of Inform ation Retrieval (IR). We explain in detail the steps performed to tran sform the textbook into.a hyper-textbook. A hyper-textbook is the hype rtextual equivalent of a textbook, in the same way as a hyperbook is t he hypertextual equivalent of a book. A hyper-textbook is designed to be used both as a self-instruction manual and as a reference source. M oreover, it can be printed out into its textual form in total or only partially for easy consultation without a computer. The hyper-textbook is written in HTML and can be accessed and navigated using a common W WW browser. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.