Hypertext
Hypertext
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Hypertext in Legal Information Retrieval
The following is a basic concept of Hypertext in relation to information retrieval
. In addition to this, Hypertext may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Hypertext is text displayed in an interactive format so that a user (a reader or viewer or listener) has the capability of skipping around from place to place rather freely. The various parts of the text are linked via hyperlinks. Hypertext can be contrasted with traditional static linear text. Hypermedia is really Hypertext.The medium is electronic and digital. It is the format that is hypertextual.
Hypertext Database in Legal Information Retrieval
The following is a basic concept of Hypertext Database in relation to information retrieval
. In addition to this, Hypertext Database may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. With the advent of the world-wide web, hypertext databases have become more and more common. According to FOLDOC (2002, hypertext), hypertext refers to a collection of documents (or nodes) containing cross-references or links which, with the aid of an interactive browser program, allow the reader to move easily from one document to another
. In a hypertext Information Retrieval database, some of these documents may be summary records or surrogates, which can lead the user to documents containing the full text of messages. Also, in this context, documents may be documentary units of any size, e.g., paragraphs or individual images.
Hierarchical Display of Hypertext
Education And Communications > Information technology and data processing > Computer systems > Hypermedia
Hypertext
Concept of Hypertext
See the dictionary definition of Hypertext.
Characteristics of Hypertext
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Translation of Hypertext
Spanish: Hipertexto
French: Hypertexte
German: Hypertext
Italian: Ipertesto
Portuguese: Hipertexto
Polish: Hipertekst
Thesaurus of Hypertext
Education And Communications > Information technology and data processing > Computer systems > Hypermedia > Hypertext
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