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Link as You Type: Using Key Phrases for Automated Dynamic Link Generation Steve Jones Department of Computer Science University of Waikato Private Bag 3105 Hamilton New Zealand Tel: +64 7 838 4490 Email: stevej@cs.waikato.ac.nz ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION When documents are collected together from diverse This paper is concerned with the automatic introduction sources they are unlikely to contain useful hypertext of hypertext links into a collection of documents where links to support browsing amongst them. For large no links previously exisisted. As long ago as 1945 collections of thousands of documents it is prohibitively Vannevar Bush suggested in his description of the resource intensive to manually insert links into each Memex that associations between digital objects might document. Users of such collections may wish to relate be automatically created [2]. Digital libraries, and other documents within them to text that they are themselves means of collecting together enormous numbers of generating. This process, often involving keyword electronic documents give this goal more currency than searching, distracts from the authoring process and ever. It is clear from our own experience