Unpacking my Television: Towards a Hypertextual Dissertation

My MFFP dissertation.

This paper describes how Amanda Smith set about her MFFP dissertation, from start to finish, and asks the question 'Was it all worth it?'

Towards Automatic Hypertextual Representation of Linear Texts

Associative searching using hypertext links is a useful extension for conventional IR systems; manual conversion of texts into hypertexts, however, is feasible only in very restricted environments. Therefore, for large textual knowledge bases automatic conversion becomes necessary. In this paper, we will give a survey of existing (and implemented) as well as of projected approaches to the goal ...

Hospitexte: towards a document-based hypertextual electronic medical record

The patient record is a repository for knowledge about a patient. Work in Artificial Intelligence and knowledge representation has evidenced the intrinsic difficulty of formalizing knowledge for computer processing. It is therefore not a surprise that most attempts at computerizing the patient record have only had a limited degree of success or applicability. We claim that this is due to the fa...

I Want My IPTV: Internet Protocol Television Predicted a Winner

Unpacking atitudes towards genetically modified food.

The present study investigates the structure of attitudes towards genetically modified (GM) food. A total of 431 respondents completed a questionnaire measuring their overall attitude, cognition and affect towards GM food. A model with distinct positive and negative, affective and cognitive components and a separate factor for perceived risk and worry best accounted for the data. Negative--but ...