On the Automatic Generation of Content Links in Hypertext

Text structuring systems that provide links between text portions have been widely proposed as aids for text preparation and text manipulation. In principle, it is easy to follow available links between related text portions; it is much harder, however, to put in place useful links that relate document sections with related text content. An approach is described in this note for the automatic generation of content links based on global term and phrase matches between sentence and document texts. Tentative evaluation data are included to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed procedures.