Genre driven multimedia document production by means of incremental transformation

Genre, like layout, is an important factor in effective communication, and automated tools which assist in genre compliance are thus of considerable value. Genres are reusable meta-structures, which exist independently of specific documents. This paper focuses on that part of the document production process which involves genre, and discusses a specific example in order to present the design rationale of mechanisms which assist in producing documents compliant with specific genre rules. The mechanisms we have developed are based on automated incremental, iterative transformations, which convert a draft document elaborated by the author into a genre compliant final document. The approach mimics the manner in which a human expert would transform the document. Transformation rules constitute a reusable and constructive expression of certain aspects of genre. The rules identify situations which appear inappropriate for the genre in question, and propose corrective action, so that the docu...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DOCENG
• Authors: Marc Nanard, Jocelyne Nanard, Peter R. King, Ludovic Gaillard
• Keywords: DOCENG 2007, Document, Document Analysis, Genre Compliance, Specific Genre Rules