Having to become quickly knowledgeable about something you know little about is a problem many people will be familiar with. Now at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel thinks he has a solution.
He has written a computer program that analyses a section of text and then searches the internet for relevant background information from dictionaries, maps, encyclopaedias and video and image databases.
It then creates an annotated version of the text, stuffed with links to the background material. This should dramatically improve a reader’s ability to understand the text, he says.
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