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Dealing with huge technical document bases is a very hot topic for high technology industry. We focus on a full integration of database, knowledge-based system and hypertext techniques to provide task-oriented-access to documents. An external semantic-driven structure is mapped onto documents owing to knowledge based hypertext techniques. A database is used to keep the elements describing this structure and to help access documents. The overall structure organization is specified by a task model. A hypertext-like interface to the document base is used to navigate within the task-organized information space. Links dynamically result from complex computed relationships handled by the knowledge representation system between concepts and from the concepts anchorage into the text. A medium scale prototype for a real document base about nuclear engineering has been developed. The paper describes the principle of integrating the three techniques and discusses the implementation.
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Nanard, J. et al. (1993). Integrating knowledge-based hypertext and database for task-oriented access to documents. In: Mařík, V., Lažanský, J., Wagner, R.R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 720. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57234-1_75
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