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Living Hypertext — Web Retrieval Techniques

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Innovative Internet Computing Systems (IICS 2002)

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In this paper, we present a document metaphor called Living Documents for accessing and searching for digital documents in modern distributed information systems. Our approach is based upon a finegrained document concept which glues computational services, data and meta data together. Viewing documents as micro servers is particularly well suited in environments where the document’s content is changing continuously and frequently. Based on a case study of an existing state-of-the-art Web application, we show how to transform database-centric information systems into a hypertext of inter-linked Living Documents. We also discuss how to effectively use traditional as well as Web information retrieval techniques, namely topic distillation, in such hypertext environment. In particular, an extended version of Kleinberg’s [11] algorithm is presented.

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  1. Wilhelm-Schickard Institute for Computer Science, Sand 13, 72074, Tübingen, Germany

    Ralf-Dieter Schimkat & Wolfgang Küchlin

  2. INA-Schaeffler KG, Industriestrasse 1-3, 91074, Herzogenaurach, Germany

    Frank Nestel

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  1. FB Informatik, Universität Rostock, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Herwig Unger

  2. Institut für Mathematik, TU Illmenau, Postfach 10 05 65, 98684, Ilmenau, Germany

    Thomas Böhme

  3. College of Art and Sciences, Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas, 76203, Denton, TX, USA

    Armin Mikler

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Schimkat, RD., Küchlin, W., Nestel, F. (2002). Living Hypertext — Web Retrieval Techniques. In: Unger, H., Böhme, T., Mikler, A. (eds) Innovative Internet Computing Systems. IICS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2346. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48080-3_1

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