摘要 |
Automatic creation of hyperlinks in a set of documents, according to structural indicators. Each document is parsed, 107, for at least one structural indicator, such as recurring words or alphanumeric text, preferably of a type which is likely to be present in the type of documents in the set. Text proximate to, and possibly including, the structural indicator is converted to a hyperlink, 117, preferably according to a rule associated with the structural indicator. Once all occurrences of structure in a document have been processed, the file name of the document is converted, 119, and the modified file is written to an appropriate directory on the web server, 121. The target document of a newly-created hyperlink may be resolved by retrieving a set of candidate documents related in subject matter to the hyperlink, and by matching the text which occurs in the hyperlink to text which occurs in selected fields, e.g. a title field, of the set of candidate target documents (fig. 4).
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