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This paper describes how hypermedia instruction manuals can be generated from a discourse plan: intentional and rhetorical knowledge in the plan tree are employed to construct the hypermedia elements, to assemble them into pages and to introduce links among them. Plan tree transformation functions are defined so as to ensure that generated hypermedia respect interface usability and Web design criteria. User adaptation is performed by parametrizing these functions: this method enables building the hypermedia according to a dynamic assessment of the user needs.
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De Carolis, B., de Rosis, F., Pizzutilo, S. (1997). Generating user-adapted hypermedia from discourse plans. In: Lenzerini, M. (eds) AI*IA 97: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1321. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63576-9_120
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