An experience from the process of adding logical markup to visually tagged scanned data is presented. The method of gradual markup enhancement is shown. Methods of navigation in a large hypertext document based on typesetting from logical markup are suggested—physical, logical and semantic user views. Their application on a 28 000 page project to create an electronic encyclopædia is described a...

Comparisons are typically employed to distinguish similar entities, or to illustrate a property of an entity by referring to another commonly known entity which shares that property. Based on an analysis of a corpus of encyclopædia texts, we define three types of comparisons and outline some strategies for applying these in the generation of entity descriptions. We describe how these comparison...

This volume includes subjects from hyperchlorhydria to leucorrhcea. It would seem that the original estimate of eleven volumes was optimistic, as at volume VII we are not half-way through the alphabet.* This volume is by far the fattest so far issued, but the actual number of pages is not far above the average. There are an unusually large number of plates. The first chapter is by Professor Hen...