Anchors in Context: A corpus analysis of web pages authoring conventions
Einat Amitay · 1998
Through interaction with the web users became aware of the existence of other users and their hypertext documents. By creating their own homepages this awareness was translated into practical generalities and the formation of patterns in web authoring behaviour. This study describes the conventions with which hypertext documents for the web are being written. It is suggested in this paper that studying these conventions and applying this knowledge to existing academic work would be beneficial to both hypertext users and the research community. Introduction The study of text and its linguistic characteristics is one of the leading interests in computational linguistics. These characteristics include phenomena such as preferred syntactic structure, usage of discourse context, choice of words, text layout, etc. The study of the way people produce text can help in designing automatic machines to generate human-like texts where these can save time and effort. Since the language convention...