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Peer reviewedRada, Roy; You, Geeng-Neng – Journal of Documentation, 1992
Discusses the use of document outlines to reduce navigation problems in hypertext. Measures of syntactic and lexical balance in an outline are proposed, and the degree to which these balances occur in a sample of documents is shown. Based on balance in an outline, a method for semiautomatically generating an outline is applied to a textbook. (45…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Discourse Analysis, Hypermedia, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedOddy, Robert N.; And Others – Journal of Documentation, 1992
An understanding of where a user is in a research project (the research script) combined with an understanding of the discourse-level features of empirical abstracts (as revealed by lexical clues) can improve information retrieval. An information retrieval system which takes situational and linguistic factors into account is proposed. (47…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Information Retrieval
