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ABSTRACT

Beyond document classes, the notion of document series denotes sets of documents whose semantic, rhetorical and narrative structures comply with some given model whereas they may or not belong to the same document class. This paper focuses on the production of document series. It first examines the current research activity on topics related to document series and exhibits the directions which need to be combined to specify, at a generic level, the intention of the author of a document series. Then it describes a framework for role based specification and shows how to turn such a specification into documents. The author specifies the generic narrative, argumentative and rhetoric structures -- the thesis of the document -- in terms of the roles of the document elements rather than in terms of their contents. Binding actual content to roles is done separately. It defines the theme on which the document is instantiated. Then a mechanism based on tree recursive transformations turns the generic specification into an actual document. The chosen set of transformations defines the document genre.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Languages and systems

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia

General Terms:
Documentation, Languages, Theory