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Context aware guidance for multimedia authoring: harmonizing domain and discourse knowledge

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This paper presents an approach to assist authors during the authoring of multimedia presentations. We extend the existing authoring support by integrating processes of topic identification, content collection and discourse structure building in a single environment. This integration allows identification of the context of the authoring process. Our approach combines this process context awareness with explicit domain and discourse knowledge to steer system suggestions. We evaluate our approach with an experimental system prototype.

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Falkovych, K., Nack, F. Context aware guidance for multimedia authoring: harmonizing domain and discourse knowledge. Multimedia Systems 11, 226–235 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-005-0003-z

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