Sources of Flexibility in Dynamic Hypertext Generation
Alistair Knott, Chris Mellish, Jon Oberlander, Mick O’Donnell · 1996
Dynamic hypertext' is hypertext which is automatically generated at the point of need.A number of NLG systems have now been developed to operate within a hypertext environment; and now that these systems are becoming widely available on the World Wide Web, it is useful to take stock of how well-equipped NLG technology is to work in this new domain.A generation system in a hypertext environment faces a specific set of requirements; here, we discuss those requirements, and the resources that can be provided to help meet them.Examples are drawn from a number of systems, including our own prototype, ILEX-0.We conclude by indicating that the major benefit of such systems could be in the way that they combine flexibility with the illusion of user control.