The use of customized emphasis in text visualization

The paper presents a technique to allow quick evaluation of the relevance of documents to one´s interests. It is designed primarily for presenting documents on the World Wide Web, but it can also be used in other situations. The idea is to automatically highlight selected keywords in Web pages as they are shown. Users maintain lists of keywords of interest to them. At any given time, a user can activate any such list and from then on all words in that list will be highlighted automatically, transparently, and efficiently in all documents. Users can change lists at any time and also control several other highlighting parameters (such as the number of selected words). Extensions of this scheme, where documents are automatically changed in other ways based on readers´ preferences, are also discussed