Principles of Document Processing Third International Workshop, PODP '96, Palo Alto, California, USA, September 23, 1996. Proceedings

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Principles of Document Processing, PODP'96, held in Palo Alto, California, USA, in September 1996. The book contains 13 revised full papers presented as chapters of a coherent, monograph-like book. The papers focus equally on the theory and the practice of document processing. Among the topics covered are theory of media, cross media publishing and multi-modal documents, SGML content models, grammar-compatible stylesheets, multimedia documents, temporal constraints in multimedia, hypertext representation, contextual knowledge, structured documents for IR, Web-publishing, virtual documents, etc.

Toward an operational theory of media.- First steps to Cross Media Publishing and multimodal documents.- Disambiguation of SGML content models.- SGML and exceptions.- Grammar-compatible stylesheets.- Object awareness in multimedia documents.- A logic based formalism for temporal constraints in multimedia documents.- Towards automatic hypertextual representation of linear texts.- Using background contextual knowledge for documents representation.- Typed structured documents for information retrieval.- Transformation of documents and schemas by patterns and contextual conditions.- Tabular formatting problems.- Visual definition of virtual documents for the World-Wide Web.