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Conceptual authoring support provides tools to help authors construct and organize their document on the conceptual level. As computer-ablenothingbased tools are purely formal entities, they cannot handle natural language itself. Instead, they provide the author with directions and examples that (if adopted) remain linked to the text. This paper discusses several levels of such directions: A Pattern describes a solution for a common problem, here a combination of audience and topic. It may point to several Schemata , which may be expanded in the document structure graph, leaving the author with more specific graph structures to expand and text gaps to fill in. A Type Definition is finally a restriction on the possible document structures the author is allowed to build. Several examples of such patterns, schemata and types are presented.
These levels of support are being implemented in an authoring support environment called CHASID. It extends conventional authoring applications, currently ToolBook. The graph transformation aspects are implemented as an executable PROGRES specification.
This work has been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in its “Schwerpunktprogramm V3D2” (Verteilte Verarbeitung und Vermittlung digitaler Dokumente, Distributed Processing and Exchange of Digital Documents), http://www.cg.cs.tu-bs.de/dfgspp.VVVDD .
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Gatzemeier, F.H. (2000). Patterns, Schemata, and Types — Author Support through Formalized Experience. In: Ganter, B., Mineau, G.W. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Logical, Linguistic, and Computational Issues. ICCS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1867. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10722280_3
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