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From: ames!hoptoad!localhost!killer!robm
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 87 19:41:31 CDT

> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 87 13:38:38+0300
> From: nsc!nsta!nsta.UUCP!iddo (Iddo Carmon /NSTA (052)-522-267)
> Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd.
> 
> >From: mlwh@sphinx (Martin Hall)
> >I would be interested in finding out about document analysis.  I mean
> >this in as general as a sense as you want to take it.  Any pointers
> >would be appreciated.
> 
> .......
> 
> Instead of treating a document as a 1-dimensional stream of characters and
> trying to extract meaning from that, I'd like to see some common general-
> purpose high-level 'document-programming' language evolving, that will be
> used to annotate the text and will then enable automatic parsing of the
> document into sections, threads of reasoning, selection of pieces by going
> down a subject menue-tree, etc.  Such a convention may make it possible to
> scan/archive documsnts according to their contents in numerous ways,
> without a prerequisite for a "natural language understanding superexpert
> system".
> ........

You might take a look at the _Chicago Guide to Preparing Electronic
Manuscripts_, University of Chicago Press, 1987.  It contains a generic
page markup language.  

Rob Moser ---   ihnp4!killer!robm


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