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Computers support the management of large collections of text documents, but efficient reuse of document collections for producing new documents remains inherently difficult. We describe and discuss the design and implementation of a document assembly system based on a document assembly model, where the user produces new specialized documents by querying and browsing a collection of structured document fragments.
This work is supported by the Finnish Technology Development Centre (TEKES) and seven Finnish enterprises (Aamulehti Group, Oy Edita Ab, National Board of Education, WSOY, Helsinki Media, Lingsoft, Inc., and MTV3). Moreover, the grants by the Academy of Finland (Helena Ahonen), the Finnish Cultural Foundation (Barbara Heikkinen), and the 350th Anniversary Foundation of the University of Helsinki (Oskari Heinonen) have provided additional support.
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Ahonen, H., Heikkinen, B., Heinonen, O., Jaakkola, J., Kilpeläinen, P., Lindén, G. (1998). Design and implementation of a document assembly workbench. In: Hersch, R.D., André, J., Brown, H. (eds) Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography. RIDT 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053293
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