chalmers@europarc.xerox.com (Matthew Chalmers) (01/22/91)
Greetings and salutations - This is the abstract of a paper I am putting together, which describes my (nascent) work on using graphical and/or physically-based modelling techniques for modelling document content. I am interested in images and navigable spaces defined on the basis of information content, rather than on geographically-based topologies. Trendy buzzwords, eh? Regards, Matthew --------- The mumbling starts here ----------- The goal of this project is to discover how effectively one can use physically-based modelling techniques for the representation and analysis of a corpus of documents. It is proposed that such techniques can be used for document classification and retrieval, and for the graphical representation and exploration of the corpus. One could declare actions to be triggered by changes to the corpus e.g.\ a newly written document being entered into the system. Such actions would make for system reactiveness to progress in document-producing activities. Incorporated with these ideas are techniques for defining rules of access by others to one's personal information. Monitoring public documents (and their content) is suggested as a useful way of supporting awareness of mutual interests.