From Topics to Narrative Documents: Management and Personalization of Topic Collections

Abstract

The paper proposes a document planning approach that structures topic-oriented materials into user-specific, narrative documents. This is achieved by introducing narrative flows into topic collections and by identifying variant relations between topics. Technically, topic collections are modeled as graphs, where nodes correspond to topics and edges denote semantic dependencies, narrative flows, and variant relations between the topics. These graphs are traversed to produce narrative documents. To personalise the traversal, user contexts are considered and define the users’ structure and content preferences. For illustration purposes the approach has been applied to a collection of learning resources.