The automated generation of Web documents that are tailored to the individual reader
Chrysanne DiMarco, Mary Ellen Foster · 1997
Many studies in communication have shown that presenting information in a manner that is tailored to the characteristics of a particular audience can have a significant effect on an individual. Incorporating this kind of tailoring facility in a system for the management and presentation of Web documents would be a very important enhancement of the Web's current state of development. Our long-term research goal has been to investigate and develop theories of text composition, in particular, computational models of rhetorical structure and lexical semantics, which are particular problems for incorporating style in natural language systems. Recently, we have begun to apply this research to developing Web-based natural language generation systems that can tailor documents to the individual user on demand. Introduction A recent and growing development in Web applications has been the advent of various tools that claim to "customize" access to information on the Web by allowing users to spe...