Automatically Generating Hypertext By Computing Semantic

We describe a novel method for automatically generating hypertext links within and between newspaper articles. The method is based on lexical chaining, a technique for extracting the sets of related words that occur in texts. Links between the paragraphs of a single article are built by considering the distribution of the lexical chains in that article. Links between articles are built by considering how the chains in the two articles are related. By using lexical chaining we mitigate the problems of synonymy and polysemy that plague traditional information retrieval approaches to automatic hypertext generation