User models for intent-based authoring

Authoring is the collection, selection, preparation and presentation of informationto one or more readers by an author. The thesis takes a new, critical look attraditional approaches to authoring, by asking what knowledge is required and atwhich stages of the process. From this perspective, traditional authoring is seen toentrench an early commitment to both form and content.Although the late binding of form is now commonplace in structured documentpreparation systems, a similar delay in...