Key Benefits of Tiddler technology:

• Produces documents dynamically
• Integrates several data sources
• Customises content for a user by producing a travel guide
  • that contains only information relevant for the user
  • that takes into account what the user has already been told
  • for the medium chosen by the user
    • Paper
    • Palm Pilots
    • Web Browsers
• Maintains consistent content organisation and navigation of travel guide across all media

Tiddler technology brings together leading edge expertise in Natural Language Generation and document re-use technology.  Tiddler is able to collate information from a variety of data sources, from SQL databases to structured web pages.  Compared to a potentially long list of answers which a search engine may produce, Tiddler is able to create a readable coherent travel guide that merges information from these varying sources.  Additionally, the coherence that results in a readable document is achieved automatically by planning the document, as opposed to a human author constructing and maintaining numerous document templates by hand.

Because Tiddler constructs the travel guide from scratch, it is able to keep track of how different parts of the document relate to one another.  Thus, it knows which parts of the document are more important and which parts are only of secondary importance.  By having these relationships between parts of the document, Tiddler is able to re-arrange the document for display on different media, such as web, print or PDA's.  For example, information of secondary importance might be placed in hyperlinks.  Importantly, because each media dependent version of the travel guide is a variant of the original document, each version has the same relationships between between parts of documents.  Essentially, this means the content is organised in the same way for each version of the travel guide, making navigation through the guide consistent across all media.

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