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Experience with the use of peritexts to support modeler-author communication in a structured-document system

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Élias RizkallahAuthors Info & Claims

SIGDOC '07: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication

Pages 142 - 147

https://doi.org/10.1145/1297144.1297173

Published: 22 October 2007 Publication History

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In an information system, if data-entry agents (authors) do not understand properly the intentions of the designer of the structure they are populating (the modeler), they can make errors, resulting in incomplete or incorrect information entering the system. Thus, modeler-author communication is of prime importance in the performance of a system. Intertextual Semantics (IS) is a semantic framework for structured-document, based on natural language, intended to facilitate the communication of the modeler's intentions to interface designers and authors. In IS, the modeler prepares peritexts (text-before and text-after segments) in natural language, that help understanding the contents of an element (or field) by putting it in the appropriate context. The experience reported here is the application of IS to the development of an exchange format between funeral homes and cemeteries. The issues raised by the use of this approach are discussed.

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Marcoux Y(2015)Applying intertextual semantics to CyberjusticeProceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 201510.4242/BalisageVol15.Marcoux01Online publication date: 2015
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Marcoux YRizkallah É(2009)Intertextual semantics: A semantics for information designJournal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.2113460:9(1895-1906)Online publication date: 21-Aug-2009
https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21134

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