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Searching for information in a hypertext medical handbook

E. Frisse Mark
- 01 Jul 1988 - 
- Vol. 31, Iss: 7, pp 880-886
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Implementing a popular medical handbook in hypertext underscores the need to study hypertext in the context of full-text document retrieval, machine learning, and user interface issues.
Abstract
Medicine is an ideal domain for hypertext applications and research. Implementing a popular medical handbook in hypertext underscores the need to study hypertext in the context of full-text document retrieval, machine learning, and user interface issues.

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Voice activated device for use with a voice-based digital assistant

TL;DR: In this article, a voice activated device for interaction with a digital assistant is provided, which comprises a housing, one or more processors, and memory, the memory coupled to the one or multiple processors and comprising instructions for automatically identifying and connecting to a DAS server.
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Browsing and searching in hypertext systems

TL;DR: A unified framework for combining browsing and searching capabilities in a hypertext system is presented and an evaluation of the system’s capacity for information retrieval is given.
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Scoring documents in a database

TL;DR: A method may include identifying a linked document that is linked to by a group of linking documents, identifying links between the linking documents and the linked document, assigning a weight to each of the identified links, and determining a score for the linked documents based on the identified link between the links.
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Four-Valued Knowledge Augmentation for Representing Structured Documents

TL;DR: This paper proposes a formal model for representing structured documents where the content of an object is viewed as the knowledge contained in that object, and the logical structure among objects is captured by a process of knowledge augmentation.
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Generation of Hypertext for Web-Based Learning Based on Wikification

TL;DR: A preliminary study into the conversion of plain text documents into hypertext for web-based learning and the generation of two types of hyperlinks: links to Wikipedia article for exploratory learning, and self-referencing links for elaboration and references.
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Vannevar Bush
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Fusion, propagation, and structuring in belief networks

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Connectionist expert systems

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