On the use of information retrieval techniques for the automatic construction of hypertext

The first part of the paper briefly introduces what automatic authoring of a hypertext for information retrieval means. The most difficult part of the automatic construction of a hypertext is the creation of links connecting documents or document fragments that are semantically related. Because of this, to many researchers it seemed natural to use IR techniques for this purpose, since IR has always dealt with the construction of relationships between objects mutually relevant. The second part of the paper presents a survey of some of attempts toward the automatic construction of hypertexts for information retrieval. This part will identify and compare scope, advantages and limitations of different approaches. The aim of this survey is to point out the main and most successful current lines of research. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.