A Framework for Content Preparation to Support Open-Corpus Adaptive Hypermedia
Vincent Patrick Wade, Séamus Lawless, Alexander D. O’Connor, Eamonn Oliver Hynes, Killian Levacher · Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology) · 2009
A key impediment for enabling the mainstream adoption of Adaptive Hypermedia for web applications and corporate websites is the di#30;culty in repurposing existing content for such delivery systems. This paper proposes a novel framework for open-corpus content preparation, making it usable for adaptive hypermedia systems. The proposed frame- work processes documents drawn from both open (i.e. web) and closed corpora, producing coherent conceptual sections of text with associated descriptive metadata. The solution bridges the gap between information resources and information requirements of adaptive systems by adopting state-of-the-art information extraction and structural content analysis techniques. The result is an on-demand provision of tailored, atomic in- formation objects called #16;slices#17;. The challenges associated with open corpus content reusability are addressed with the aim of improving the scalability and interoperability of adaptive systems. This paper proposes an initial architecture for such a framework in addition to reviews of associated technologies.