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Justification structures for document reuse

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Advances in Case-Based Reasoning (EWCBR 1996)

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Document drafting—an important problem-solving task of professionals in a wide variety of fields—typifies a design task requiring complex adaptation for case reuse. This paper proposes a framework for document reuse based on an explicit representation of the illocutionary and rhetorical structure underlying documents. Explicit representation of this structure facilitates (1) interpretation of previous documents by enabling them to “explain themselves,” (2) construction of documents by enabling document drafters to issue goal-based specifications and rapidly retrieve documents with similar intentional structure, and (3) maintenance of multi-generation documents.

This research is supported in part by grants from the National Center for Automated Information Research and by NSF Faculty Early Career Development Grant IRI-9502152.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Wyoming, Box 3682, 82071, Laramie, WY

    L. Karl Branting

  2. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Box 8206, 27606, Raleigh, NC

    James C. Lester

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Branting, L.K., Lester, J.C. (1996). Justification structures for document reuse. In: Smith, I., Faltings, B. (eds) Advances in Case-Based Reasoning. EWCBR 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1168. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020603

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