Transcoding Biomedical Information Resources for Mobile Handhelds

We developed a transcoder gateway that transforms web pages on the fly. The transcoder adapts the pages to the limitation of the user´s device, especially the small screen of PDAs and smart phones. We developed novel template-matching algorithms to detect the structure of a webpage and to match the structure with a known template in the template library. Transformation rules such as summarization can then be applied to the template to make reading full-text documents in small screen devices more usable. Our current project focuses on transcoding full-text biomedical information resources (such as full-text biomedical journals) to support mobile healthcare professionals.